"On the big night, a bad weather forecast seemed like it might spare the country the humiliation of having the fights go ahead. But God chose to punish us instead, and the cloud passed. Trump, visibly stooped, hobbled in and sat uncomfortably in the front row..."
Dave Tait
Trump presides over spectacles of violence like a dysfunctional Roman emperor | Moira Donegan
The sordid UFC event represents his own efforts to symbolically fuse the federal government with his person, to insist that he is America and is the state, says Guardian US columnist Moira Donegan
