I know people don't like hearing this, but what's happening tonight at the White House is about as American as Apple Pie and White Supremacy.
Trump is the inevitable end result of our nation's obsession and refusal to confront capitalism, racism, & cruelty.
Tonight is a celebration of all of it.
The American Dream is alive and well…
These images get at the problem for me. Tacky? Sure, but so is that red carpet, which precedes Trump. Tacky I can abide. What's grotesque here is the gleeful sadism, the brutality, the misogyny, the monarchism, the cult of personality, the corruption, the cruel, loveless gaze.
Josh Hokit just ended his post-fight speech at the White House UFC event by yelling "Michelle Obama is a man!"
A disgraceful spectacle through and through