Dear Joe,
I wish I could sit down with you face to face and explain why so many of us were offended by the UFC fight on the South Lawn of the White House.
For me, it had nothing to do with the UFC or who showed up for the fights. The brand you and Dana have built is a bona fide American success story. More power to you. As for the fighters, in my book, anyone brave enough to put it all on the line in the arena is remarkable to witness. Their dedication and discipline inspire me. I don’t understand anyone who can’t admire that.
And as for the people who attended, I, for one, love Shane Gillis. I think he’s hilarious and brilliant. It was a show. A once-in-a-lifetime spectacle. I can’t blame anyone for wanting to witness it firsthand.
My problem is that I believe some of our public spaces are sacred. And unlike many of the great powers that came before us, these American monuments belong to all of us. Not to whoever happens to hold power at the moment.
The White House does not belong to Donald Trump. It does not belong to any President. It belongs to the people. To treat it as Caesar treated the Colosseum is antithetical to everything our founding fathers fought for.
This is not Rome. Presidents are not emperors doling out bread and circuses for the peasants. The White House is the People’s House. This “celebration” could have happened in any stadium within a stone’s throw of the South Lawn. No one would have had an issue with it.
But that was obviously Donald Trump’s whole point. By holding the event on the South Lawn, what he was saying to the rest of us is:
“This is my house. I own it. I will do with it what I please. I’ll build a colosseum and have the gladiators fight under my gaze. I’ll tear down the East Wing. I’ll pave over the Rose Garden. I’ll cover everything in gold and marble. I’ll erase the names of all the men who came before me.”
The fights were an exhibition of imperial domination, not a celebration of our 250th anniversary as a democracy.
The White House is not Buckingham Palace. It is not the Palace of Versailles. It is not the Forbidden City of Beijing. It does not belong to an emperor, or a king, or a commissar.
The White House belongs to us. All of us. The person who sits behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office is nothing more than an honored guest. A temporary caretaker.
The President is our servant. Not our Caesar.
Respectfully, Hunter
P.S. Cage match between me and Don Jr.? Your call on the venue. Anywhere but the South Lawn.
Things most Americans agree on:
Groceries cost too much.
Tariffs suck and make no sense.
Congress and Presidents shouldn’t trade stocks.
The debt is a mess.
The border should be secure, but legal immigration is good.
Endless wars are stupid, especially ones that nobody wants and have never been explained.
Americans are exhausted.
AI is like my new best friend that also might be trying to take my job, my ability to think for myself, and my humanity in the process. Yo like I love you, but WTF, but I still love you.
Diversity is actually awesome! The opposite is boring AF.
Canadians are super fucking cool.
Mexicans are chill.
Putin isn’t a good guy looking out for America’s best interest. Rocky IV and Miracle are great movies.
Good neighbors are a blessing.
Freedom of religion and coexistence without having to blow each other up is probably a good idea.
We all question, are we alone in the universe?
We all fuck up along the way.
Epstein didn’t hang himself.
The Trumps and Epstein were best friends for decades. It’s like Bert trying to tell us Ernie was just an acquaintance in the same social scene on Sesame Street back in the day.
The Cowboys suck. Go Birds!
Things we’re told to fight about:
Me.
Laptop.
Vaccines.
Transgenders in sports.
Pronouns.
That’s the joke.
Desecrating Easter was the first step toward nuclear war. Christians need to understand where Trump is taking us.
0:00 Monologue
43:23 Paula White’s Strange Easter Sunday Service
51:17 Who Really Is Paula White?
57:24 How Did Paula Become Trump’s Spiritual Advisor?
1:00:03 The Exposed Megachurch Documents
1:09:52 Why Is Corruption So Prevalent in American Protestant Churches?
1:13:10 The Scam That’s Taken Over the Nonprofit Industry
1:27:14 The Mormon Church’s Investments in Weapons Manufacturing
1:28:52 How Much Money Does Franklin Graham’s Nonprofit Have?
1:33:11 How Do Megachurch Pastors Justify Owning Private Jets?
1:39:30 Graham's Bizarre Alaskan Hideout
1:52:42 The Love of Money Is the Root of All Evil
1:54:27 What Is Dispensationalism?
2:07:15 The Attempts to Usher in the Antichrist
2:13:00 Finding Contentment and Fulfillment in Christ
2:16:36 The Spiritual War Happening in the White House
“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing…on the street corners to be seen by others. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen…who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” Mtw 6:5
“They were calling me washed. Saying I didn’t have it anymore. I just wanted to prove to myself I am who I say I am.”
“This team took a chance on me. I just wanted to make them proud.”
1-on-1 with emotional #Patriots WR Stefon Diggs headed to 1st Super Bowl:
@WWECreative_ish This iteration of the Uso’s isn’t long for this world. Whether it’s a Jey turn or they both turn heel, this isn’t what we’ll be getting long term
Tucker Carlson just dropped the kind of bomb Washington prays the public never hears:
“Supporting Israel isn’t Christianity. It’s a theological scam.”
And then he dismantled the whole charade:
• There is no such thing as a people chosen by God because of their DNA.
• Christianity doesn’t issue blank checks to a foreign state.
• Using God as a political threat to force Americans to support Netanyahu?
That’s manipulation, not faith.
• Killing innocent people is the one thing Christianity is crystal-clear about:
it’s forbidden. Period.
Then he went straight for the political clergy of Capitol Hill:
Lindsey Graham, Mike Johnson… these men aren’t preaching Christianity.
They’re preaching Israel.
And the absurdity?
They threaten Americans with lines like:
“God will pull the plug on America if you don’t support Israel.”
Since when is faith a hostage situation?
Since when did devotion become foreign policy cosplay?
Tucker said out loud what millions have been thinking:
“Your loyalty isn’t to God… it’s to a government with nothing to do with Christianity.”
The façade is collapsing.
Americans see it now—clearly, loudly, and without the old propaganda filter.
“Import the third world, become the third world.”
You know what’s wild? Watching men whose entire lives were built on colonial looting and apartheid rule lecture Africans about “corruption” and “culture”.
Matt Walsh sits there saying Somalia is “dysfunctional” because fraud and piracy are part of the lifestyle, part of the culture. Elon signal-boosts that garbage. As if Somalia just woke up one day and collectively decided, “Let’s be poor and chaotic for vibes.”
Somalia’s collapse didn’t happen in a vacuum. Foreign fleets have been strip-mining Somali waters for decades, dumping toxic waste off its coast, gutting local livelihoods and helping fuel conflict and piracy.  But sure, tell me again how this is just “Somali culture” and not the fallout of Western abuse plus a failed state.
And that slogan – “import the third world, become the third world” – isn’t clever, it’s recycled white-nationalist propaganda. It’s literally the caption Trump’s team used over a photo of Black migrants, condemned as racist even by mainstream civil-rights groups.  It’s a dog whistle with the subtlety of a foghorn: Black and brown = dirty, criminal, sub-human.
Then you’ve got Musk – a man who grew up white and wealthy in apartheid South Africa, in a family that literally held a stake in an emerald mine – playing global town crier about “African dysfunction” and “Western civilisation”.  His family moved to apartheid South Africa to enjoy white-minority rule and the economic upside of racial hierarchy, then benefited from that system while Black South Africans were legally dispossessed, brutalised, and locked into poverty. 
The sheer nerve of people who inherited the spoils of empire turning around and blaming Africans for living in the wreckage those empires left behind.
Calling piracy, corruption or violence “African culture” isn’t analysis, it’s racism. It erases:
• centuries of European extraction and imposed borders
• Western-backed dictators and militias
• ongoing resource theft, debt traps and unequal trade
…and then pins all the fallout on some mythical ethnic flaw.
If you want to talk about why states like Somalia are fragile, or why some African countries struggle with corruption, cool – let’s talk about IMF policies, Cold War proxy wars, structural adjustment, illegal fishing, land grabs, and who still profits today. But don’t stand on a pile of stolen wealth from an apartheid childhood and tell me “this is just how Africans are”.
That’s not “saying the quiet part out loud”. It is the quiet part: naked, lazy, cowardly racism dressed up as concern for “civilisation”.
This commentary offers a clear, powerful statement of why freedom of speech is at the heart of democracy and must be defended, whether the speaker is Charlie Kirk or Jimmy Kimmel, MAGA supporters or MAGA opponents.
Another act of political violence in America. And we ALL again have a choice to make. We either use this shooting to get partisan, or we condemn ALL political violence. A month ago, 2 Minnesota Democrats were shot: NEITHER SIDE has a monopoly on political violence.
So choose.