President Donald Trump offered his thanks to FIFA — while Belgian officials fume and vow to evaluate &#8220;all potential options&#8221; — after the organization lifted a one-game suspension for U.S. star-striker Folarin Balogun.
Trump took to his Truth Social platform to express his thanks, saying, &#8220;Thank you to FIFA for doing what was right, and reversing a great injustice!&#8221;
A White House source confirmed to The Daily Wire that the president had made a call to FIFA President Gianni Infantino regarding the red card. Multiple reports suggested that during that call, Trump had informed Infantino that attorneys were preparing to challenge the use of slow-motion instant replay — which he said violated FIFA rules — and that the red card had been excessive.
Outkick founder Clay Travis said sources had told him that &#8220;President Trump, commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, and White House task force head Andrew Giuliani put together a team of elite lawyers — from outside the government — to challenge the Flo Balogun red card.&#8221;
&#8220;Specifically they challenged the use of slow motion instant replay to give the red card, which they argued violated FIFA rules. The president also conveyed to Gianni Infantino, FIFA’s president, that the appeal had been filed and he believed the red card penalty was excessive,&#8221; he added. &#8220;FIFA’s independent committee reviewed the decision and agreed the penalty was incorrectly given, rescinding it under their rule 27 authority.&#8221;
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Sources: President Trump, commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, and White House task force head Andrew Giuliani put together a team of elite lawyers — from outside the government — to challenge the Flo Balogun red card. Specifically they challenged the use of slow motion instant…
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The rule in question states that the slow-motion replay is only to be used to determine facts — where players were at the time of the offense or how contact occurred — and not to judge the severity of the offense. That, the rule states, should be determined by a replay at normal speed.
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The Royal Belgian Football Association registered its displeasure with the decision in a statement published on Sunday: &#8221;
FIFA bases its decision on Article 27 of the FIFA Disciplinary Code. This provision states that the FIFA Disciplinary Committee may decide to suspend the enforcement of a previously imposed disciplinary sanction.&#8221;
&#8220;However, Article 66.4 of the same FIFA Disciplinary Code clearly provides that a red card (sending-off) automatically results in a suspension for the team’s next match, as has been the case for all previous red cards issued during this FIFA World Cup,&#8221; the statement continued.
The precedent was already set at the beginning of World Cup play, when Portugal&#8217;s star player <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/07/05/sports/the-cristiano-ronaldo-precedent-that-changed-folarin-baloguns-red-card-fortunes/">Cristiano Ronaldo</a> had a suspension overturned in favor of a probationary period. Ronald, who was shown a red card and given a three-match suspension last November, only missed one match before FIFA suspended the remaining two-match ban, placing him on probation but allowing him to play in his team&#8217;s opening World Cup match.
The United States is set to play Belgium on Monday, July 6, in the Round of 16.

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The White House is renewing the pressure on federal immigration agents to massively increase arrest numbers.
Multiple Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sources told The Daily Wire that they&#8217;re back to working seven days a week as the Trump administration pushes for higher arrest numbers. ICE made more than 10,000 arrests during a recent five-day period, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/us/politics/ice-immigrant-arrests-surge.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ulA.4-MU.0gsS0EAOfQGH&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> Wednesday.
Over the weekend, ICE agents across the country were &#8220;called into work on a mandatory 100% manpower work week surge effort,&#8221; one agency source said, adding that the &#8220;huge effort&#8221; was &#8220;pushed super last minute, destroying officers&#8217; personal lives in the meantime.&#8221;
The all-gas, no-brakes approach is &#8220;exhausting,&#8221; another agency source said.
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The goal of the new effort is to sustain 2,000 arrests per day, up from 1,000 earlier this year, according to The New York Times.
A White House official confirmed that &#8220;numbers&#8221; are &#8220;increasing&#8221; as a &#8220;result of continued work by the administration on many different fronts.&#8221;
&#8220;Of course, the White House works with their partners at different agencies to ensure the President’s agenda is being enacted. At the same time, the Secure America Act guaranteed funding for 3 years, hiring has continued to increase, the immigration courts are more streamlined, and ICE is operating more efficiently every day,&#8221; the official said.
ICE was instructed to focus on increasing arrest numbers under the leadership of then-Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, leading to aggressive and flashy sweeps across cities like Minneapolis, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
When Markwayne Mullin took the helm at DHS, he indicated there would be a softer approach to how the agency carries out its mass deportation plan. The shift came after two fatal shootings of anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis by federal immigration agents.
&#8220;We&#8217;re still enforcing immigration laws, we&#8217;re still deporting illegals that shouldn&#8217;t be here, we&#8217;re still going after the worst of the worst, but we&#8217;re doing it in a more quiet way because my goal in six months is to not have DHS on the lead story everyday,&#8221; Mullin said in April.
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During a press conference Wednesday, Mullin <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj_pqoUGWpU&amp;source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&amp;embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.dailywire.com%2F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that arrests and deportations are surging.
&#8220;We&#8217;re seeing our arrest numbers come up, we&#8217;re seeing our deportation numbers continue to increase,&#8221; Mullin said. &#8220;Right now, we&#8217;re deporting on average over 3,000 individuals, actually the average has been for several weeks now over 3,200 individuals a day, 70% of those individuals we&#8217;re deporting have outstanding criminal charges on them or they&#8217;ve already been charged with a felony.&#8221;
&#8220;So when we go after the worst of the worst, which is exactly what we&#8217;re doing, we&#8217;re saving lives,&#8221; Mullin said.
In a statement, DHS said &#8220;since day one&#8221; they&#8217;ve been &#8220;delivering on President Trump’s promise to the American people to arrest and deport criminal illegal aliens including murderers, rapists, pedophiles, gang members, and terrorists.&#8221;
&#8220;Nearly 70% of ICE arrests are of illegal aliens charged or convicted of a crime in the U.S. More than 3 million illegal aliens are out of the country and counting. Our message is clear: if you come to our country illegally, we will find you, we will arrest you, and we will deport you,&#8221; an agency spokesperson said.
Meanwhile, ICE&#8217;s detention population increased by 4,000 detainees with the facilities holding more than 63,000 illegal immigrants as of Tuesday, The New York Times reported.
ICE leadership has applauded agency personnel for supporting the latest effort.
“I want to personally thank each of you for your extraordinary efforts this past weekend,” Marcos Charles, Executive Associate Director of ICE&#8217;s Enforcement and Removal Operations, wrote this week in an email to agency staff, according to The New York Times.
“Through your dedication, professionalism, and unwavering commitment to our mission, enforcement and removal operations achieved remarkable operational results,&#8221; Charles wrote.
Last Year, White House adviser Stephen Miller instituted a 3,000 daily arrest quota for ICE, which tanked agency morale.
ICE has since more than doubled its staffing levels by hiring thousands of new officers. The agency has also received a flood of billions of dollars in funding.

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President Donald Trump’s granddaughter, Kai Trump, recently took her followers on a tour of the White House, describing the famous landmark with nonchalance and a hint of sarcasm.
The Gen-Z internet personality showed off the White House in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxV0P0602M">video</a> posted on Wednesday and gave some more behind-the-scenes perspective of the White House UFC fight.
As she entered the White House, which she called &#8220;my house,&#8221; she gestured towards a portrait of George Washington, saying, “We got my best friend, George Washington. We’re real tight.” 

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Kai also described the newly-installed statues of Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin Franklin in the Rose Garden as if they were old friends.
“This is my friend Alexander Hamilton. What a chiller,” Kai said. “Over here we have Benjamin Franklin, who’s also my dear friend. Old Boy Benji. We call him Benji. What a nice guy.”
As she walked through a hallway adorned by paintings, glass lamps, and an old grandfather clock, Trump&#8217;s granddaughter commented that she &#8220;used to play soccer in these halls.&#8221;
After dodging aides who were moving furniture on the second floor, Kai found a podium.
“I’m about to do a speech in front of everyone. Look, look at my crowd,” she joked to the few people filming her.
She continued showing other rooms in the White House, commenting with her deadpan sense of humor.
“This is the Red Room. As you can tell, it’s red and that’s why it&#8217;s called the Red Room.” Kai joked. “This is the Blue Room. As you can tell, it’s also blue.”
To conclude her White House tour, Kai went into the Oval Office, showing off the Declaration of Independence on the wall, the portraits, Trump’s Sharpies, and the various articles of gold in the office.
“All right guys. We’re in the Oval Office right now,” she said. “So everything is gold because my grandpa hates gold so he actually decided to add a lot of gold to the Oval Office. That’s a joke. He loves gold. It’s like his favorite thing on the planet if you guys haven’t noticed.&#8221;
“He has a very good attention to detail, so everything that he thought should be gold, he made gold,” Kai added. 
Kai has over three million followers on Instagram and 1.5 million subscribers on YouTube. She is attending the University of Miami this fall, where she is <a href="https://miamihurricanes.com/roster/kai-trump/">joining</a> Miami&#8217;s golf team.

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The Daily Wire obtained police audio of a phone call a concerned mother made to law enforcement that led to the discovery of a plot to attack the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House. 
In the phone call with law enforcement, the mother of 19-year-old Tycen Proper is heard voicing concerns about her son’s stockpile of ammunition and his plan to “fight the corrupt government.” Proper was arrested last week and charged in connection with an alleged plot to unleash sniper fire on attendees of the White House UFC event. 
“I don&#8217;t, we don&#8217;t even know what he&#8217;s wanting to do. He’s wanting to leave this weekend and go with a group of people to help fight the corrupt government,” Proper’s mother said in a phone call released by the Knox County Sheriff’s Department.   <iframe style="aspect-ratio: 16/9; max-width: 100%; width: 100%; margin: 20px auto 5px; border: 0;" src="https://player.mux.com/sc01Lup8SLBT8MTNvsMHz1016R3JA1r6gS?metadata-video-content-type=embed_video&amp;metadata-video-id=b0a565d4-ec24-46dc-a78c-1685b8fc4f55&amp;metadata-video-stream-type=on-demand&amp;metadata-video-title=2026-06-23%20UFC%20Terror%20Plot%20911%20Call&amp;poster=https%3A%2F%2Fdailywireplus-v2.imgix.net%2Fimages%2Fembedded-videos%2Fd6bc7707-0749-4f99-bd8a-4e6c7c182353.png&amp;autoplay=false&amp;accent-color=%23DB3D3B&amp;primary-color=%23ffffff&amp;secondary-color=%23000000" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>
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“I wanted to file a report just to have it on record,” Proper’s mother said. “And I&#8217;m in Danville, so I wasn&#8217;t sure if there was somebody in Danville that was on duty that I could just talk to. I could even go down to the police station and meet them.”
“I believe that we already have people en route to you,” the police dispatcher replied. 
“We took all the guns and ammo out of his room … and got it off our property,” Proper’s mother said. “He just came inside, and he&#8217;s probably going to discover it&#8217;s not in his room.”
An earlier call from a family member gave the Knox County Sheriff’s Department a heads-up about the situation. 
“They are having some issues with their son, and I think, I don&#8217;t think anybody&#8217;s in immediate danger as in this second, but I know that she has some concerns with weapons and ammo and a particular mindset that her oldest boy is in right now,” a caller said in a police call obtained by The Daily Wire. 
The incident report from the police revealed that they showed up at Proper’s home on June 10 because the mother was concerned about him “purchasing firearms and meeting random people online.” After officers arrived, Proper was admitted to a hospital and they began coordinating with federal officials on an investigation. 
Proper was eventually charged with conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States, attempted murder against any officer or employee of the United States, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and receipt or transfer of a firearm used to commit a felony, according to the complaint.
When authorities searched Proper’s phone, they found Signal groups “that laid out detailed plans” to carry out an attack in Washington, D.C., with intricate maps highlighting sniper locations and potential drone launch locations.

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The man accused of being the ringleader of a group planning to attack the UFC Freedom 250 White House event last weekend is an illegal immigrant from Mexico. 
Abraham Alvarez, who the Justice Department said was “responsible for planning, organizing, and directing the planned attack,” overstayed his visa after being brought into the country as a child. He was first granted deportation relief under former President Barack Obama in 2014, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-ufc-terror-plot-ringleader-mexican-illegal-immigrant-dhs-confirms">reported</a> Thursday. 
Alvarez came on a B2 visa, according to the Department of Homeland Security. A B2 visa typically is given for tourism or medical reasons and the one issued to Alvarez expired in 2001.
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&#8220;This illegal alien from Mexico should never have been allowed in our country,&#8221; DHS Acting Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis told Fox News. &#8220;He was the ringleader of a failed terror attack targeting UFC Freedom 250 at the White House.&#8221;
&#8220;He will face justice and swiftly be removed from our country,&#8221; she added of Alvarez.
The alleged plot would have involved using explosive drones to cause panic at the UFC event before snipers opened fire. Alavarez has been charged with conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States.
Alvarez wanted to target President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and trillionaire Elon Musk, according to the criminal complaint from the FBI. Neither Musk nor Netanyahu were at the event.
The FBI said that Alvarez went by the moniker &#8220;Shepherd&#8221; in a group chat where the attack was planned.
&#8220;This is the best action I see. Position your teams in the purple dots (counter sniper and drones) Long range (circled area) (great shot) Easy out into the river,&#8221; Shepherd posted on June 10 alongside maps of the D.C. area, according to the FBI.
Tycen Proper, a 19-year-old charged in the attack, allegedly identified “Shepherd” as “the primary individual involved with planning” and “directly stated that Shepherd was the leader of the group and described him as aggressive in tactical planning.”
“From his home here in Nebraska, Alvarez allegedly directed and recruited others across the country to conduct a horrific attack against government officials in a mass casualty event. Our team worked around the clock to locate and apprehend Alvarez, take him into custody, and collect crucial evidence,” said FBI special agent Eugene Kowel on Tuesday. 
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One of the alleged ringleaders of the plot to attack the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House over the weekend was seen in his mugshot flashing a creepy smile after his arrest.
The smiling suspect, 31-year-old Omaha resident Abraham Alvarez, allegedly posted his sinister plans to target President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and trillionaire Elon Musk in a Signal chat dubbed &#8220;Hunters&#8221; where he used the moniker &#8220;Shepherd.&#8221; Law enforcement arrested Alvarez, who is reportedly not an American citizen, on Sunday at an old church in the town of Western, Nebraska, according to NBC’s Omaha, Nebraska, affiliate WOWT.
“i. Targets confirmed ii. 1. 2. VP 3. N 4. Musk,” he wrote in the chat, according to a criminal complaint.
Neither Musk nor Netanyahu appeared to have attended the event.
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The group allegedly planned to carry out the attack by detonating drones rigged with explosives over the event last Sunday before setting off a secondary strike on those evacuating with snipers.
In calling the shots, Alvarez allegedly assigned roles within the group, classifying certain members as “Sniper 1,” “Sniper 2,” “Sniper 3,” and “Drone Operator,” adding that he was “working” on drones “as we speak.”
Alvarez also shared his plans on June 10 for &#8220;the best action I see,&#8221; instructing members of the group to &#8220;position your teams in the purple dots (counter sniper and drones) Long range (circled area) (great shot) Easy out into the river&#8221; with a map of the nation&#8217;s capital attached, according to the complaint.
“They will try to close down the highways stick to meeting near the 495 bridge. Take the river south, there are back roads, you can also take the river,” he allegedly said in a follow-up message featuring a screenshot of the Potomac River.
He allegedly directed others to take back roads or the river to meet at a &#8220;pick up location&#8221; and pinpointed sites for drone launches and snipers. He also identified the Thomas Jefferson Memorial as the best escape route.
When other members of the conversation asked Alvarez about a &#8220;second wave&#8221; attack, he replied that &#8220;Several factions and militia have been notified,&#8221; according to the complaint.
&#8220;They will be the teeth and the Shepherds. I also sent out a mass call to action to all protest groups, that will bring numbers.(working on arming them). They will engage when they see the signal. Told them they know will know when they see it,&#8221; he wrote, according to the complaint, adding &#8220;at the same time, this day, several other ops are happening all at once. Keeps the enemy distracted while we cut the arteries.&#8221;
Alvarez identified an old church in Nebraska as a “fall back location” for the group, according to the complaint.
“They can grow the camp, and make a training ground we have the go ahead from the owner,” he allegedly wrote in the chat, adding, “grow your numbers, I will build your teams.”
“Train them, fall back location is NE in an old church,” he wrote, according to the complaint.
Another alleged attack plotter, 19-year-old Tycen Proper, said he learned of &#8220;an anti-government protest in Washington, D.C.,&#8221; through a TikTok from the user &#8220;Shepherd,&#8221; according to the complaint. It is not clear whether that was also Alvarez, who used the nickname in the Signal communications.
Proper also allegedly identified “Shepherd” as “the primary individual involved with planning” and “directly stated that Shepherd was the leader of the group and described him as aggressive in tactical planning.&#8221;
Authorities arrested both Alvarez and Proper, along with three others, for their alleged roles in forming the attack plans.
Some members of the group were said to have “expressed ultra-religious and antigovernment sentiments, specifically citing grievances about government corruption, the handling of the Epstein files, data centers taking up all the water in communities, and other government actions.”

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A concerned mother called authorities over her son&#8217;s alleged role in plotting an attack at the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House over the weekend after she noticed alarming behavior.
Officers responded to the family&#8217;s home on the evening of June 10 after the mother, Danielle Proper, called about a &#8220;disturbance&#8221; involving her son Tycen Proper, according to a criminal complaint. She grew concerned over his recent firearms purchases and communications with random individuals online who claimed to be military veterans and Christians.
The 19-year-old allegedly used $3,000 of his graduation money to purchase “several boxes of ammunition (estimated by law enforcement to be in the thousands of rounds of ammunition), two plate carriers with AR-style magazines, an AR-style rifle, and a bullpup rifle painted with an American flag.&#8221; The weapons were turned over to law enforcement.
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The suspect&#8217;s mother, an Ohio-based cosmetologist, broke her silence Wednesday, posting a Bible verse to her Facebook page.
&#8220;Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand,&#8221; the post read.
One user commented: &#8220;I can&#8217;t begin to imagine how difficult your choice, the right one, was, but you undoubtedly saved untold numbers of lives, including Tycen&#8217;s. You know we&#8217;re praying &#8230; We love you guys!&#8221;
Another wrote, &#8220;You have done the hardest thing but the Lord will hold you tightly in His tenderest care because of it!&#8221;
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She also shared a video of a Christian musician singing about her desperation for &#8220;help.&#8221;
&#8220;Oh God, I&#8217;m desperate, down on my knees, send help from heaven cause that&#8217;s what I need. Redeem this wreckage, restore my peace. I&#8217;m not asking I&#8217;m begging, Lord come through for me,&#8221; the musician sang.
Proper was arrested in Ohio and hit with four criminal charges, including conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States, attempted murder against any officer or employee of the United States, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and receipt or transfer of a firearm used to commit a felony, according to the complaint.
Law enforcement authorities also arrested four others for their alleged roles in the plot.
Proper&#8217;s parents told authorities that the 19-year-old had recently quit his job and begun messaging online with unknown individuals about plans to carry out “missions” and “recons,” according to the complaint.
Proper&#8217;s family members said he had become increasingly isolated and recently made “sympathetic comments about Adolf Hitler” while “posting anti-Semitic comments on Facebook,” the complaint said.
Proper&#8217;s mother said her son&#8217;s conversations with his alleged coconspirators online led him &#8220;to lean heavily into his religion,&#8221; adding that &#8220;she believed that those individuals were using religion to manipulate and influence her son.&#8221;
Upon searching Proper&#8217;s phone, authorities found Signal groups “that laid out detailed plans” to carry out an attack in Washington, D.C., featuring maps of sniper positions and potential drone launch sites, according to the complaint. Proper later confessed to his leading role in “planning … a coordinated attack” during the UFC event at the White House.
Proper wrote in one of the chats on or about May 13 that he “got a possible target,&#8221; whom he identified as &#8220;Marsha Blackburn &#8230; senator for Tennessee,” saying they should target her for taking “money from the Israel pro Israel lobby and supports them,&#8221; according to the complaint.
On May 31, he allegedly sent messages saying, “These are people we’re going to focus on,” before sharing photos of Senator Jim Justice, Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Rep. Carol Miller, and Rep. Riley Moore. The four images appeared to have been taken from the website “TrackAIPAC.com,” which shows how much cash each lawmaker received “from pro-Israel PACS.”

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Mom Who Turned In Son Over UFC White House Plot Shares Heartbreaking Message

Now liberals are equating UFC with porn and lynching. God, they ruin everything.
They&#8217;ve gone completely off the rails. These people hate men. They hate women who like men. They hate patriotism, marriage, babies, traditional entertainment, and anything that looks like unapologetic joy. Except Joy Reid&#8217;s version of it, maybe. And did I mention they loathe men? This is where the Democratic Party stands in 2026: proving every single day that there&#8217;s no crawling back to sanity.
They&#8217;re not moderating. They&#8217;re not reflecting. They&#8217;re doubling down on the sneering, joyless, elitist nonsense that already cost them working-class voters by the truckload.
Take the recent White House UFC event on the South Lawn. Conservative writer Marc Thiessen <a href="https://x.com/marcthiessen/status/2066172759823065239">praised</a> it as Trump opening the doors to regular Americans — the kind who enjoy motocross rallies and monster truck shows. New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/opinion/ufc-freedom-250-fight.html">responded</a> by sneering that if you&#8217;re okay with that, you&#8217;re an elitist snob in reverse. Then she went nuclear: &#8220;Like Ultimate Fighting, porn is extremely popular, but I somehow doubt Thiessen would defend a Democratic president who invited a bunch of OnlyFans creators to the Oval Office while he was losing a war.&#8221;
Wild comparison. Is she on Hunter Biden’s crack? But somehow it got worse.
On Jim Acosta&#8217;s show, historian Heather Cox Richardson — the same one who treats every Republican breath as a constitutional crisis — actually said <a href="https://x.com/WesternLensman/status/2066680661025468757/video/1">this</a> with a straight face: &#8220;It&#8217;s not really a stretch to say that the same impulse that created the UFC fight on the White House lawn is the impulse that really pushed lynching in the late 19th century.&#8221;
Lynching! And Perma-victim-Acosta just hmmed in agreement, like she&#8217;d dropped profound historical wisdom instead of a brain-melting false equivalence.
UFC fights equal lynching. UFC fights equal porn. Motocross rallies equal baskets of deplorables. Got it. By this logic, anything popular with normal Americans is automatically suspect or sinister.
They despise us. Not in the polite &#8220;we disagree on policy&#8221; way. The Left genuinely believes all Republicans are flannel-wearing hillbillies who enjoy combat sports, big trucks, and rowdy crowds, and that we’re the moral and cultural scum of the earth.
They would rather die than be caught enjoying the same things the rest of the country finds entertaining.
Motocross rallies are awesome. So are monster trucks. UFC is about as American as it gets — a nation born from fighters, revolutionaries, risk-takers, now celebrating disciplined, high-level athletic competition in a ring. Neither has a damn thing to do with lynching or porn. One is a consensual sport between trained professionals. The other was a racist mob murder. (Smells like the abortion movement in America if you ask me.)
Goldberg should sit this one out. The party lecturing America about sexual liberation has produced exactly what you&#8217;d expect. Gallup data shows Republicans are dramatically more likely to be married than Democrats, especially in prime family-forming years. The gap has widened over decades as Democrats have embraced lifestyles that de-emphasize marriage and family <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/646793/why-marriage-became-partisan.aspx">formation</a>. Institute for Family Studies <a href="https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-growing-link-between-marriage-fertility-and-partisanship">research</a> consistently finds that conservatives and Republicans have higher fertility rates and are far more likely to have children. Liberal women, by contrast, show markedly lower completed fertility and higher rates of childlessness.
This isn&#8217;t random. It tracks with broader attitudes. Liberals have long led the charge on &#8220;sex-positive&#8221; culture that celebrates casual sex, delayed or rejected marriage, and the normalization of platforms like OnlyFans. Democrats poll more favorably toward expansive views on sexual liberation and non-traditional arrangements. The party that claims to champion &#8220;joy&#8221; and &#8220;inclusion&#8221; has produced a demographic reality of more single adults, lower marriage rates, and fewer babies — while sneering at the people who still value the opposite.
That&#8217;s why Democrats keep bleeding support. They&#8217;re <a href="http://substack.com/redirect/e3f842fc-a20e-4d7a-ac91-84c95c092ca6?j=eyJ1IjoiMjk0dHMifQ.cmJkfm0X0r0SrUjdPQSLO8z8KA2siPUsFk8HgV3kFag">hemorrhaging non-college </a>voters, men, and anyone who doesn&#8217;t want to be lectured about their entertainment choices or family decisions. The party that once claimed the lunch-bucket crowd now looks down its nose at them from coastal enclaves.
When Trump leaves office after his third term, they’ll have nothing left but the same tired hatred of the next guy. No positive vision. Just more pearl-clutching at monster trucks and cage fights and happiness.
Meanwhile, UFC is thriving. It&#8217;s one of the fastest-growing sports globally, with massive viewership, huge revenue, and broad appeal — especially among young men who need exactly the discipline, fitness, and male camaraderie it provides. Training in martial arts builds confidence, respect, and resilience. Plenty of guys who were drifting have found purpose in the gym and the cage. It&#8217;s popular across every demographic the Left pretends to speak for.
Of course they would hate it.
If liberals could drop the snobby nonsense for five minutes, they might notice that millions of normal Americans — including plenty who aren&#8217;t hardcore conservatives — enjoy UFC precisely because it&#8217;s raw, competitive, and unfiltered. It celebrates toughness and skill instead of fragility and grievance. But they can&#8217;t. They&#8217;re too far gone. They represent an increasingly angry, single, low-fertility, joy-allergic class that thinks the height of sophistication is comparing a sporting event to historical atrocities.
New York Times. Heather Cox Richardson. Jim Acosta. You suck at this. You don’t understand the country you claim to analyze. You don’t even like it. And every time you open your mouths to equate cage fighting with lynching or porn, you just remind the rest of us why normal people tuned you out years ago.
America was built by fighters.

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One of the suspects accused of planning an attack on the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House hoped to target trillionaire Elon Musk, according to the group&#8217;s messages.
The alleged plotters hoped to carry out the attack by detonating explosive-carrying drones over the event last Sunday before conducting a sinister secondary strike with snipers on those evacuating.
In a Signal chat dubbed &#8220;Hunters,&#8221; a user with the moniker &#8220;Shepherd&#8221; posted his plans and gave orders to others around June 11, according to a criminal complaint. Investigators later identified &#8220;Shepherd&#8221; as 31-year-old Omaha resident Abraham Alvarez, who is reportedly not a U.S. citizen.
Law enforcement nabbed Alvarez Sunday at an old church in Western, Nebraska, <a href="https://www.1011now.com/2026/06/16/nebraska-man-arrested-connection-with-disrupted-attack-white-house-ufc-show/?fbclid=IwY2xjawSfh-1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe8S2lSqSCtcvX8oCXaOGFdfJ48w2gl8jP9KKblhHOYJXOv8hgx7tQwWoEJxI_aem_jraCzyvqlOvbwW9GCVyB_g" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to NBC&#8217;s Omaha, Nebraska, affiliate WOWT.
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&#8220;i. Targets confirmed ii. 1. 2. VP 3. N 4. Musk,&#8221; the message read.
While reports last week indicated that Musk would attend the UFC event at the White House, it does not appear that he made the trip.
Alvarez also appeared to assign roles within the group, classifying them as &#8220;Sniper 1,&#8221; &#8220;Sniper 2,&#8221; &#8220;Sniper 3,&#8221; and &#8220;Drone Operator,&#8221; adding that he was &#8220;working&#8221; on drones &#8220;as we speak.&#8221;
Investigators believed that the targets identified by Alvarez included President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Musk.
Alvarez allegedly identified a &#8220;fall back location&#8221; for the group to meet at an old church in Nebraska.
&#8220;They can grow the camp, and make a training ground we have the go ahead from the owner,&#8221; he allegedly wrote in the chat, adding, &#8220;grow your numbers, I will build your teams.&#8221;
&#8220;Train them, fall back location is NE in an old church,&#8221; he wrote, according to the complaint.
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Tycen Proper, 19, who was also arrested as part of the alleged plot, told authorities that he learned of &#8220;an anti-government protest in Washington, D.C.&#8221; through a TikTok posted by a user who also went by &#8220;Shepherd,&#8221; according to the complaint. It is not clear whether that was also Alvarez, who used the nickname on Signal.
Proper also identified &#8220;Shepherd&#8221; as &#8220;the primary individual involved with planning&#8221; and &#8220;directly stated that Shepherd was the leader of the group and described him as aggressive in tactical planning,&#8221; according to the complaint.
The radicalized teen allegedly wrote in one of the chats on or about May 13 that he “got a possible target Marsha Blackburn is senator for Tennessee,” saying the group should go after her for taking “money from the Israel pro Israel lobby.”
He also allegedly sent messages on May 31 saying, “These are people we’re going to focus on,” before sharing photos of Senator Jim Justice (R-WV), Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Rep. Carol Miller (R-WV), and Rep. Riley Moore (R-WV). The four images appeared to have been taken from the website “TrackAIPAC.com,” which shows how much money each lawmaker received “from pro-Israel PACS.”
Authorities arrested five individuals, including Alvarez and Proper, for their alleged involvement in the plot.
Some of the alleged attack planners were said to have “expressed ultra-religious and antigovernment sentiments, specifically citing grievances about government corruption, the handling of the Epstein files, data centers taking up all the water in communities, and other government actions.”

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UFC Attack Ringleader Hoped To Target Elon Musk

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Law enforcement officials discovered the alleged plot to attack the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House over the weekend after a concerned mother called police, according to an FBI criminal complaint.
Officers showed up at the home of 19-year-old Tycen Proper on the evening of June 10 after they received a phone call about a “disturbance” from his mother. Proper would later tell investigators that he and multiple others planned to stage a terror attack involving the exploding drones and sniper rifles, FBI Task Force Officer Christopher Betts said in a criminal complaint. 
Proper and four other men have been arrested for their involvement in the alleged plot which appeared to be motivated in part by the government’s handling of the Epstein files. The complaint said that Proper’s mother told police she was “concerned about her son” due “to his recent conduct, including firearms purchases and communicating with certain individuals online.”
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After officers arrived at the home, they spoke with Proper and his parents. His father told police that he “had recently met random people online and had been planning &#8216;recons&#8217; with these individuals.”
In a later interview with the FBI, Proper’s mother claimed that he had “recently begun interacting with a group online that was comprised of individuals who claimed to be ex-military and Christian-based. She didn&#8217;t know the name of the group, but they expressed ultra-religious and anti-government sentiments, specifically citing grievances about government corruption, the handling of the Epstein files, data centers taking up all the water in communities, and other government actions.” 
Proper’s mother also said “she observed him recently engaged in physical training” and “researching and mapping locations in the area just northwest of Washington, D.C.” 
“She stated that she also observed additional images and maps being sent to him from unknown individuals through texts and Discord messages, and she would overhear PROPER talking to these individuals verbally on his phone,” the complaint said. 
The FBI said that the plot aimed to target the wealthy and Republican politicians who the plotters accused of being compromised by Israel, including Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Senator Jim Justice (R-WV), Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Rep. Carol Miller (R-WV), and Rep. Riley Moore (R-WV). 
“The members of that group stated that they wanted to protect the United States, which they believed was headed in the wrong direction,” the FBI complaint said. “Members of that group believed that the United States needed to be torn down so that it could be rebuilt.”

The Disturbing Call That Unraveled The UFC White House Terror Plot

A teen became radicalized to the point of allegedly masterminding a plot to attack the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House Sunday night.
Tycen Proper, with a group of nearly two dozen others, allegedly began prepping to carry out the attack with explosive-carrying drones before federal authorities learned of his desires and took him into custody.
Proper&#8217;s own mother, an Ohio-based cosmetologist, called authorities after his recent firearms purchases and communications with random individuals online who claimed to be military veterans and Christians, according to a criminal complaint viewed by The Daily Wire. The group allegedly planned to detonate explosive-laden drones over the UFC arena and to open fire as the crowd would evacuate.
Proper’s parents told law enforcement that their son had recently quit his job and started messaging online with unknown individuals about plans to execute “missions” and “recons,” according to the complaint. <iframe style="aspect-ratio: 9/16; max-width: 220px; display: flex; justify-content: center; width: 100%; margin: 20px auto 5px; border: 0;" src="https://player.mux.com/DtijUF01TWHV6XwVU3BFOpWQJ4lC01CHrK?metadata-video-content-type=embed_video&amp;metadata-video-id=33a8430f-ed29-41d4-80e2-a98082a95a9d&amp;metadata-video-stream-type=on-demand&amp;metadata-video-title=2026-6-16%20TikToks%20surface%20of%20White%20House%20UFC%20suspect&amp;poster=https%3A%2F%2Fdailywireplus-v2.imgix.net%2Fimages%2Fembedded-videos%2F9836b883-a12d-4398-b27b-174ce8e6d166.jpg&amp;autoplay=false&amp;accent-color=%23DB3D3B&amp;primary-color=%23ffffff&amp;secondary-color=%23000000" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe> Family members also said the 19-year-old had become more isolated and had recently made &#8220;sympathetic comments about Adolf Hitler&#8221; while &#8220;posting anti-Semitic comments on Facebook,&#8221; the complaint said.
Proper&#8217;s mother has regularly posted about her son online and recently shared a photo from his graduation from the Knox County Career Center, saying she was &#8220;proud&#8221; of him.
Proper used $3,000 of his graduation money to purchase “several boxes of ammunition (estimated by law enforcement to be in the thousands of rounds of ammunition), two plate carriers with AR-style magazines, an AR-style rifle, and a bullpup rifle painted with an American flag,&#8221; which were later turned over to law enforcement, according to the complaint.
From the posts, it appears that she raised him in a devout Christian home and told federal authorities that she believed the individuals tied to the plot preyed upon her son by &#8220;using religion to manipulate and influence him.&#8221;
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In another post, Proper is seen wearing a shirt with the Bible verse &#8220;It is finished&#8221; on it.
Proper dubbed himself &#8220;a professional person, a geek,&#8221; adding &#8220;I&#8217;m very good with computers&#8221; in a 2021 TikTok post. That same year, he posted a video of himself playing &#8220;Squad,&#8221; which he described as a &#8220;realistic tactical shooter game. &#8220;I&#8217;ve been posting survival videos, shooter tactical videos called Squad &#8230; I&#8217;m posting total war videos,&#8221; he said in another TikTok video.
At the time, he also said in one video that he&#8217;s &#8220;not a type of person that gets into politics or any drama ever.&#8221;
When authorities searched Proper&#8217;s phone, they found Signal groups &#8220;that laid out detailed plans&#8221; to carry out an attack in Washington, D.C., with detailed maps highlighting sniper locations and potential drone launch locations. Proper later confessed to investigators that he took part in &#8220;planning &#8230; a coordinated attack&#8221; during the UFC event at the White House and admitted to being one of the group&#8217;s leaders.
Proper wrote in one of the chats on or about May 13 that he &#8220;got a possible target Marsha Blackburn is senator for Tennessee,&#8221; saying they should target her for taking &#8220;money from the Israel pro Israel lobby and supports them. &#8221;
On May 31, he sent messages saying, &#8220;These are people we&#8217;re going to focus on,&#8221; before sharing photos of Senator Jim Justice, Senator Shelley Moore Capito, Rep. Carol Miller, and Rep. Riley Moore. The four images appeared to have been taken from the website &#8220;TrackAIPAC.com&#8221; and appeared to show how much cash each lawmaker received &#8220;from pro-Israel PACS.&#8221;
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Proper was arrested in Ohio and hit with four criminal charges, including conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States, attempted murder against any officer or employee of the United States, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and receipt or transfer of a firearm used to commit a felony, according to the complaint.
At least 23 individuals are believed to have been part of the network plotting the attack. Some of the members were said to have &#8220;expressed ultra-religious and antigovernment sentiments, specifically citing grievances about government corruption, the handling of the Epstein files, data centers taking up all the water in communities, and other government actions.&#8221;
Along with Proper, authorities arrested four others, including Michael Alan Thomas and Bryan Omar Roa in California, for allegedly taking part in the plot.

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How A Radicalized Teen Masterminded The UFC White House Attack Plot

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It&#8217;s the emperor&#8217;s Dies Natalis. Peace treaties are being signed. And the gladiators are duking it out in the shadow of the People&#8217;s House to celebrate.
Welcome to America 250. Where the country is Rome-maxxing. And unlike the original, as long as the Optimates stay in charge, this Rome won&#8217;t fall.
Sunday night on the White House South Lawn, a <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HK0bqUuXQAAxfnS?format=jpg&amp;name=900x900">spectacle</a> unfolded that was nothing short of triumphant. Hundreds of patriots gathered in absolute awe beneath &#8220;The Claw&#8221; — a 92-foot steel velarium — to watch some of the greatest fighters alive face off in the octagon. The entire evening felt God-ordained. Before the first bell, a double rainbow <a href="https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/2066360031314870481">ripped</a> across the sky and arched over the crystal-clear reflection pool, as lightning shattered the sunset and broke the horizon into pieces. This believer will note that earlier in the day, a thunderstorm was forecast to drown the whole thing. Instead, it encircled Washington, D.C., as if the hand of God just gently waved it away. The American flag flew high. The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds and the U.S. Navy Blue Angels roared in a rare &#8220;super delta&#8221; formation over the crowd. And an eagle <a href="https://x.com/UFC_AUSNZ/status/2065956132586463653/video/1">soared</a> above the People&#8217;s House like it had read the room. 
 
Americans of every stripe felt it. The vice president was <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HK1S1GlXQAAQZHw?format=jpg&amp;name=900x900">hanging</a> out with the Holy Uncle, Pope Leo&#8217;s brother, at ringside. Jack Osbourne was taking <a href="https://x.com/ginamilan_/status/2066525396871385201">selfies</a> in the crowd; the son of British rock royalty, raised on American excess and correctly appreciating what London could never even dream up. D.C. residents flooded the National Mall to catch a glimpse of <a href="https://x.com/KarluskaP/status/2066496869765718371/video/1">“Uncle Trump!”</a> “Cousin Barron,” and the first-ever trillionaire, “Uncle Elon” in the front row. Dana White was <a href="https://x.com/UFConParamount/status/2066317927398150241/video/1">grinning</a> ear to ear as the national anthem rang out from inside the cage. Mark Zuckerberg sat ringside, completely transfixed, getting a front-row education in what the Right has been building while Silicon Valley was busy with content moderation policies. Young boys across the country were glued to the TV, watching men be men and remembering that&#8217;s something to aspire to.<iframe style="aspect-ratio: 9/16; max-width: 220px; display: flex; justify-content: center; width: 100%; margin: 20px auto 5px; border: 0;" src="https://player.mux.com/fw02bnvtwq271RmPFH2GYP2XcfurX3Lw2?metadata-video-content-type=short&amp;metadata-video-id=09d9a2ee-f68e-40aa-a30c-cb2eb5effdd9&amp;metadata-video-stream-type=on-demand&amp;metadata-video-title=America%E2%80%99s%20recent%20wins%20this%20Flag%20Day%20&amp;poster=https%3A%2F%2Fdailywireplus-v2.imgix.net%2Fimages%2Fshorts%2F070f11dc-85c5-426d-8a66-c4a896250f24.jpg&amp;autoplay=false&amp;accent-color=%23DB3D3B&amp;primary-color=%23ffffff&amp;secondary-color=%23000000" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>
It would be hard not to feel it. Americans are fighters at heart; it’s in our blood. We’re a nation born from revolutions, and our president knows it. Fight, Fight, Fight. 
And then Justin Gaethje, wrapped in an American flag, on Flag Day, put on one of the great performances in UFC history — pulling off a stunning fourth-round TKO upset of Ilia Topuria to become undisputed lightweight champion on the most historic stage in the sport&#8217;s 33-year history. Every single fight on the card ended in a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBqj3cPhYOc">knockout</a>. Every. Single. One. He made his entrance through the Presidential Walk of Fame, past the bust of Teddy Roosevelt — the president who literally kept a boxing ring in the White House so he could host fights — and you can safely assume TR was smiling down from his likely nature-painted heaven. 
 
This is what patriot-maxxing looks like.
The tide is turning, and you can feel it in your bones. It&#8217;s cool to celebrate your country again. <a href="https://montanafreepress.org/2026/06/15/sean-omalley-has-never-stopped-being-a-montana-kid/">Montana-</a>born and bred Sean O&#8217;Malley dispatched his Canadian opponent with a <a href="https://x.com/UFConParamount/status/2066361089160347687/video/1">nod</a> of approval from the president and the first lady. The World Cup is wowing every European who crosses the ocean to visit. The Czech national team <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HKyWcZ0XsAED0tZ?format=jpg&amp;name=900x900">showed</a> up to the traditional rodeo in Fort Worth — home of the world&#8217;s first indoor rodeo — draped in cowboy hats and grinning in tourist photos. Coca-Cola is making pro-America <a href="https://x.com/trumplicans2024/status/2066241930024169493/video/1">commercials</a> again. German tourists are falling in love and even getting to meet Ella Langley, the country artist who gave us the soundtrack of the summer. Even New Yorkers are in a good <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/knicks-run-away-with-first-nba-finals-win-in-53-years">mood</a>. It&#8217;s a miracle.
Gas prices are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/one-major-cost-is-falling-fast-after-trump-announces-iran-peace-deal">down</a>. Homicide rates are at decade-low <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leavitt-highlights-historic-crime-decline-as-murder-rate-hits-lowest-level-since-1900">numbers</a>. Middle-class Americans are getting <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-american-middle-class-keeps-getting-richer-7f57dcff">richer,</a> and citizens in every income bracket are actually <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-middle-class-is-dying-claim-doesnt-hold-up-against-one-key-reality">gaining</a> ground. Illegal border crossings are functionally over. The government is leaner, the fraud is disappearing, and the White House is bathed in red, white, and blue, instead of the <a href="https://x.com/rightsidefreee/status/2066340656033755365/photo/1">rainbow</a>.
But here&#8217;s the thing. That&#8217;s not why Americans feel the way they do right now.
They feel triumphant because President Trump has purged the apologetic rot. The culture of managed decline, the ideological mandate to be ashamed of your own country, the iron-fisted insistence that Americans adopt and celebrate a set of destructive, anti-American values or be canceled into silence — all of it has been cleared from the capital like the storm that missed the South Lawn. What&#8217;s replaced it is a roaring, unapologetic resurgence of American exceptionalism, and the whole world showed up in Washington this weekend to watch it.
It almost didn&#8217;t happen. We were one bullet, one slight turn of the head, away from none of this being possible. Without that, a tipsy Kamala Harris would have hosted off-key <a href="https://x.com/AF_Insight/status/2066339716060856673/video/1">progressive sing-alongs</a> ad nauseam. Flag Day would have meant a different kind of flag. America 250 would have felt about as patriotic as Greta Thunberg at a Canadian carbon credit summit. Our institutions, our founders, our national pride would have been continually <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HK1jI1NXsAA6e9j?format=jpg&amp;name=900x900">mocked</a> and dismantled by those who believe the country&#8217;s greatest achievement is feeling guilty about itself.
And what did the Left offer last night? We’re still trying to make sense of it.
Ms. Rachel, the children&#8217;s YouTube personality who has spent recent weeks leading protest sing-alongs outside a Newark ICE facility, singing her walls down until &#8220;everyone is free&#8221; — was counter-<a href="https://x.com/Acyn/status/2066317910784778665/video/1">programming</a> the UFC. Jane Fonda, Bette Midler, Joy Reid, and Robert De Niro <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdyVmofQxy4">staged</a> something called &#8220;Rise Up, Sing Out: A Concert for the First Amendment&#8221; at a New York City theater. It pulled a few thousand views on YouTube. De Niro <a href="https://www.aol.com/articles/robert-niro-says-t-love-180229198.html">informed</a> the audience that he &#8220;can&#8217;t love&#8221; his country. Joy Reid did what Joy Reid does. The whole thing was billed as their version of resistance.
It was about as threatening as a soggy pamphlet.
The Left couldn&#8217;t sell out a mid-sized concert hall while over <a href="https://krdo.com/news/2026/06/13/crowds-flock-to-white-house-ellipse-for-fan-event-ahead-of-ufc-fight/#:~:text=Organizers%20have%20allotted%20about%2085%2C000,I%20like%20the%20atmosphere.">85,000 </a>Americans stood on the Ellipse watching the greatest night in UFC history unfold live on the lawn of the White House. That contrast isn&#8217;t incidental. That is the entire argument.
They’re unable to comprehend the sort of joy that we are feeling right now. They can’t imagine why on God’s green earth we are animated about this Americanism. They don’t understand the <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HK1D_-nXUAAFjTc?format=jpg&amp;name=900x900">aura</a> because they&#8217;re shrouded in hatred, convinced that American greatness is a myth worth unlearning.
They were wrong. Last night proved it, in high definition, with knockouts. 
 
This week in America, we saw visiting Japanese traditions celebrated alongside our own. We saw Scots in kilts, Czechs in cowboy hats, and Germans singing along to country music. We saw the beauty of distinct cultures, each formed separately and mutually appreciated, all showcasing the best of what they&#8217;ve got on American soil. This is what we fight for. This sense of freedom, pure patriotism, unadulterated oomf. The understanding that here you can do anything and be anyone. That excellence is not a liability. That strength is not something to apologize for.
Caesar didn&#8217;t apologize. He gave the citizens a vision of absolute, unyielding greatness. Let the critics call it bread and circuses. The history books will record this weekend as the moment America 250 looked the world in the eye and remembered exactly who it is.
The rot has been cleared. The boundaries are secure. The era of managing decline is over.
If we can keep the Left out of our way, we can keep it.

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