As you probably know, I’ve been critical of the planning for the America 250 events. There have been several reasons to be disappointed and skeptical, which I’ve gone into at some length. But if you watched UFC Freedom 250 on the White House lawn and the Ellipse last night — credit where it’s due — you saw something important.
Photo by Cooper Neill/Zuffa LLC
You witnessed a scene that was Roman in nature — and not just because gladiators from all over the world were fighting in an arena, having been invited to the capital of the world’s only superpower, with the emperor in attendance on his birthday. This was an ornate and well-choreographed display of national unity and vitality unlike anything seen at the White House in previous administrations. It’s not even close.
The optics were incredible from beginning to end. 80,000 people gathered on the Ellipse to watch the fights and the rest of the show.
There were precisely zero unhappy lesbian harpies in sight. The cameras repeatedly cut to members of the military, whose morale was clearly high. Every few minutes, chants of “USA” broke out. President Trump and the first lady were sitting in the front row, where they interacted with all of the fighters — or at least, all of the winners. And here’s what they saw.
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🔥 NOW: INSANE FLYOVER OVER THE THE WHITE HOUSE! pic.twitter.com/3rF9QzjKNo
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) June 15, 2026
Source: @Breaking911/X.com
The night ended with a very close and brutal main event, in which the American fighter, Justin Gaethje, rallied and pulled off an upset after destroying the face UFC Lightweight champion, Ilia Topuria.
Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC
At one point, a doctor tried to end the fight on-camera, but was rebuffed, or maybe convinced otherwise.
So as you can probably tell, even if you didn’t see it live, this was a genuinely entertaining and well-produced event, in every respect. And it was quite a contrast from the White House in June of 2023 and 2024, when the Biden administration hosted a public celebration of degeneracy to mark “Pride Month,” a now-defunct ritual that was popular among satanists and narcissists. It was the exact opposite of the UFC event — it was a mockery of masculinity in every respect.
This was the grotesque display on the White House lawn just three years ago. The Biden White House invited trans activists onto the front lawn to flash everyone in attendance — including children. They displayed a demonic flag and worshipped various deviant sexual practices.
There was no reverence for America because these people hate America.
You could not imagine a more profound transformation. As someone pointed out, when you compare these images from 2023 to the scene outside the White House yesterday, it looks like we won a major war. It’s like we overthrew an occupying force that was intent on indoctrinating us, undermining our will to live, and subjecting our children to horrific displays of sexual perversion. No matter what issues you may have with this administration, this is an unequivocal victory for civilization. Those freaks are gone. They’re in full retreat. No one cares about their dumb gay “Pride Month” anymore — not even the corporations. This is our government now.
I’m not going to highlight the dozens of Leftists complaining about the UFC event. You can imagine their howling. It’s undignified, hysterical, and barely literate, as usual. It’s a waste of time to even talk about it.
Instead, I’m going to read this insightful post from an anonymous account on X. It’s a perfect summary of why the Left can’t tolerate what just took place.
The Left mythologizes the White House and Congress as sacred places, not as holy sites for a civil religion, but so they can debase the whole nation with Sorkinite piety and sternness. To turn it into a place of delight and popular spectacle strips away the myth of coldness leftists have used for so long as a vehicle for cruel communism, and reminds the American people that this house belongs to them.
This gets at the heart of the Left’s outrage over the event last night: They worship the various inanimate organs of the state. It’s a spiritual sickness. In lieu of churches, they have these monuments and government office buildings. In lieu of God, they have bureaucracy — the more soul-sucking, the better.
That’s how they see the role of the government. Their greatest fear is that millions of Americans will come to see the role of the government as something else entirely — as an institution that exists to reflect the will of the people. The government should not be an object of worship. Instead, it should facilitate the flourishing of this country.
They’re seething with rage right now because, instead of honoring degenerates and sexual deviants, and instead of demoralizing everyone who comes in contact with them, it’s now very apparent that these government institutions can serve a different purpose. They can reflect the mindset of builders — of people who want to create something extraordinary, rather than funnel even more money to corrupt Left-wing NGOs and various perverted organizations. They can reflect American patriotism and a belief that our best 250 years are ahead of us.
Last night — and the past week in the wake of the SpaceX IPO — has plainly exposed the difference in this country between people who build, on the one hand, and people who complain, leech, and accomplish nothing whatsoever on the other hand.
Of course, along with every other civilization throughout history, we’ve always had builders and leeches. What’s changed is that the most resentful and least productive people in the United States are no longer ashamed of their life choices. They no longer have any self-awareness. They no longer feel any degree of personal responsibility. They certainly don’t feel compelled to stay quiet and focus on improving their own lives before they weigh in on national politics.
Instead, the most resentful and least productive people in America now have the backing of a major political party, which encourages them to be as miserable as possible, all of the time. And in particular, they’re told to rebel against the builders and seize their property out of spite. That would obviously lead to an economic collapse, which is the entire point.
Democrats understand that, as long as most Americans are poor and bitter, they’ll be more reliant on the government — and therefore much easier to control. No functioning society can survive if these people gain any degree of political power. History (and common sense) make that very clear. But they’re going to try anyway.
Their first target, without a doubt, will be Elon Musk. If Democrats retake the federal government, their mission will be to destroy the world’s first trillionaire. They aren’t remotely proud of the fact that the world’s first trillionaire is an American. They’re furious about it. And therefore, they will attempt to do to Elon exactly what they did to Donald Trump: try to throw him in prison.
This is an entire political movement that’s premised on jealousy, disdain for the United States, and a fundamental misunderstanding of how the economy works. People who have never built anything in their lives — who have never contributed anything to our economy, who have never employed anyone, who have never done anything remarkable in any way, and who are incapable of experiencing joy or laughter, even at the sight of a UFC fighter declaring that Michelle Obama is a man — are insisting that they have the right to confiscate Elon Musk’s wealth, and to ensure that no one can ever be as wealthy as he is, ever again.
That is not an overstatement. In the wake of the SpaceX IPO, they’re coming right out and saying it.
Here’s a post from Graham Platner, the guy with the Nazi tattoo who’s now the Democratic Senate nominee in Maine. This is someone who’s supposedly 100% disabled and receiving full VA benefits, but somehow, he can run for Senate. And he’s someone the whole party has rallied around.
Platner wrote, “Elon Musk just became the world’s first trillionaire. Let’s make sure he’s also the last.”
Elon Musk just became the world’s first trillionaire.
Let’s make sure he’s also the last.
— Graham Platner for Senate (@grahamformaine) June 12, 2026
Source: @grahamformaine/X.com
Put another way, the explicit position of the Democratic Party is that the government must limit the amount of wealth that any one person can hold. If someone exceeds a certain threshold, then the government can shut them down.
One of the many problems here is that, at the moment, the U.S. government is in debt to the tune of $40 trillion. The debt grows by trillions of dollars every year. It’s unsustainable. And no amount of taxation or “wealth seizure” will solve the problem. If we forced every billionaire in the United States to liquidate all of their assets and stocks overnight at gunpoint — which would crash the stock market, cause another Great Depression, and destroy all future investment in the country — we’d still have more than $30 trillion in debt.
So that’s a completely false, nonsense solution.
In the alternative, we could end the Ponzi scheme that is Social Security. We could privatize it. We could slash Medicaid. Both of those options would bring the debt down. But as George Bush found out, from a practical perspective, none of this will ever happen. People would revolt. So that’s not a realistic option either. Therefore, there’s only one realistic solution to our problem: We can generate more money — a lot more money — through private industry.
We could allow innovators like Elon to do what they plan to do, which is to build corporations like SpaceX and Tesla into massive, 25-trillion-dollar companies. If guys like Musk accomplish that goal — which is going to be very difficult — then we won’t have to worry anymore about the national debt. We’ll be the wealthiest country in the world, by far. Tax revenues will be astronomical. We wouldn’t have to worry about the national debt ever again.
By shutting down Elon Musk (and every other billionaire), Democrats would prevent that outcome from ever taking place. They would set a ceiling on our standard of living, which has been steadily declining over the past few years (as you’ve probably noticed). And they would do all of it — for what? So that the government can waste more of your money on bridges that don’t go anywhere, on high-speed railways that don’t actually work? So that the government can fund more fraudulent Somali daycares and “autism treatment centers”? So that the feds can fund more useless “non-profits”?
Imagine thinking that the federal government can spend Elon Musk’s money better than he can. This is derangement on an almost unbelievable scale.
And that’s why every single one of the attacks on Elon is either an outright fabrication, or a case of seething resentment — or in the case of Hasan Piker, it’s both.
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Hasan posted on TikTok
▸ “elon is a trillionaire through the sheer power of lies and government subsidies” pic.twitter.com/1eBnd3nhEH— HasanAbi Updates (@HasanAbiUpdates) June 13, 2026
Source: @HasanAbiUpdates/X.com
Hasan Piker is extremely rich and offers no value to society at all. In fact, he offers negative value. And he’s informing us that actually, the guy who owns a large stake in multiple publicly traded companies he runs, valued by the market at over $1 trillion each, is a failure. The level of delusion and narcissism is just impossible to even comprehend.
For starters, no, Musk’s fortune isn’t “built on the tax dollars we pay.” The total amount of money that Musk’s companies have received from taxpayers is nowhere near $50 billion, much less $1 trillion. And again, the overwhelming majority of the taxpayer money Musk’s companies received was payment for services rendered. It wasn’t a handout. It’s not a “grift.” He was paid to do something important for the country, and he did it. (And by the way, today, the vast majority of SpaceX’s money doesn’t come from the government at all. Starlink satellite internet is their main revenue driver.)
I can’t overstate just how unified the Democrat Party is when it comes to destroying wealth in this country. Here’s what Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts wrote on X about Elon Musk. He’s been on a personal quest to destroy him for some time.
Elon Musk just became the world’s first trillionaire. While working people struggle to get by, the billionaire class is becoming the TRILLIONAIRE class. It’s disgusting. I’m fighting to tax the rich so we stop rewarding trading stocks over punching clocks.
And here is what Gavin Newsom, the Democrats’ most likely presidential nominee, wrote on X:
Americans are struggling to pay for groceries and gas while Elon Musk becomes a TRILLIONAIRE. When the federal government is for sale, the rich get richer and everyone else gets shafted. The system is rigged.
This is the same Gavin Newsom, by the way, who just conducted a softball interview with Hunter Biden — the personification of “the federal government is for sale.” But in this post, Newsom wants us to know that the real problem is Elon Musk, because he’s rich, while many Americans are struggling to pay for groceries and gas. And I guess the idea is that, until everyone can afford groceries and gas, we shouldn’t have rich people.
This is an extremely dumb line of argument. At the same time, we can’t dismiss this rhetoric. It’s guaranteed to play a major role in the next election. For obvious reasons, populist talking points tend to resonate. A lot of people do feel, justifiably so, that the cost of living is too high. As we’ve discussed before, all of the money printing during COVID, along with the influx of foreigners who are competing with Americans for housing and employment, has made everyday life much more expensive.
The candidate who wins the next presidential election will be the candidate who’s able to convince Americans that he’s going to bring costs down. Whatever your political views may be, there’s no getting around that. It’s a fact.
But it would be a massive mistake — one that we may not be able to recover from — to blame the cost of living on people who are building. People who are creating jobs and enormous wealth — people who are single-handedly boosting the GDP of this country — are not the enemy in this scenario. Of all the targets you could pick, the builders are the absolute worst. They’re not the reason that the cost of living has gone up. On the contrary, they’re the only realistic path forward to erasing the national debt that’s been growing at an unsustainable rate for most of our lives.
When Democrats tell you that they want Elon to be the last trillionaire, they’re telling you that they’re going to cap our economic growth indefinitely. They want us to fight over the limited resources we currently have. They want you to think that’s our only option — to worship their civic religion, and to endlessly redistribute other people’s money until we run out of it.
But over the past week, both Elon and the Trump administration have made it clear there’s an alternative: We can take pride in our country, rather than our bureaucracy. We can create wealth, rather than seizing it. That’s the approach we need to take, if we want to exist as a country for another 250 years. We have to reject the jealousy and the insecurity and the impotent rage of the Left, and as quickly as we possibly can, with the support of as many billionaires and trillionaires as possible, we need to build.
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