President Donald Trump used U.S. military honor guards for his white trash UFC weigh-in at the Lincoln Memorial where fighters spit on themselves, while motorcyclists performed jumps on the White House lawn flanked by U.S. marines for the canceled UFC fight, notes The Daily Beast:
WTF!!!!!
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) June 14, 2026
Trump is f-cking using Honor Guards at a UFC event on the Lincoln Memorial.
No this is NOT ok. Don’t you dare call yourself a “patriot” while supporting this crap. pic.twitter.com/gBdz0jbTan
This is disgusting.
— Ed Krassenstein (@EdKrassen) June 14, 2026
Fighter Josh Hockit, a grown man, is spitting on himself at the Freedom 250 UFC weigh-in.
Donald Trump has made a disgrace of America. pic.twitter.com/C2Yl8y801H
Disgraceful. https://t.co/AOSqjuoSFo
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) June 14, 2026
Marines being used for this dumb shit smh pic.twitter.com/PftCOTG8ww
— Wu Tang is for the Children (@WUTangKids) June 14, 2026
The hijinks got started Saturday morning with the weigh-ins of the fighters, who promoters warn will get hurt and bloodied in Sunday’s seven wild spectacles. Heavyweight Josh Hokit walked unsteadily and appeared to drool, dribble, or vomit at the weigh-in.
“So what? Maybe I was drinking last night,” the bare-chested fighter told spectators. “Who wouldn’t be? I have a giant Black man that wants to knock me out.”
…The bizarre moments continued as adrenaline junkies from The Nitro Circus performed motorbike jumps on the South Lawn of the White House.
“Disgraceful,” wrote the Lincoln Project in response.
In another moment, aDodge RAM race car performed a burnout on The Ellipse ahead of the upcoming UFC Freedom 250 fight on the South Lawn of the White House.
Additionally, CNN’s Brian Todd reported Sunday that attendees at the Ellipse could try all sorts of wacky games.
“This is a kind of a punching contest,” he noted at one stall. “There’s a punching bag there where you can measure the force and the speed of your punches.”
He then took viewers to a “simulated UFC walkout where you can get yourself videotaped kind of doing a UFC strut or whatever you want to do as you walk out for a simulated UFC fight.” Todd noted, however, they looked “fun.”
A recurring theme among critics is that the undignified spectacle is not worthy of its storied venue.
“What’s happening at the White House is embarrassing as hell,” Democratic Vice Chair Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta said Saturday. “Sadly I don’t need to be specific.”
Conservative Trump critic Bill Kristol noted that the UFC spectacle “captures something about this moment in our history. After all, it’s vulgar, it’s violent, it’s commercial, it’s grandiose, it’s tacky, and it dishonors a place once thought worthy of care and respect. In other words, it’s Donald Trump.”
(Sources: The Daily Beast, Uncrowned)

