While this may seem just snarky, I am deadly serious when I write Substacks like this. Things like this offer a frightening insight into Trump's malevolent sadistic mindset and personality.
President Biden had Elton John entertain some 2000 guests on the White House lawn (article).
Donald Trump is floating the idea of having an Ultimate Fight Championship (UFC) fight with 20-25,000 people in the audience on the White House grounds. (See story)
Two very different social media reactions were published in the RawStory article about this.
Trump told rallygoers he wants to mark the country’s upcoming 250th anniversary with a “full championship fight” on the White House grounds in addtion to staging events at national parks and historic sites.
There’s a well known saying about this. You can get it on a t-shirt or button here.
By now I think most everyone knows what the UFC is. If you don’t, here’s the Wikipedia page.
You can tell a lot about the culture of a country by which sports are the most popular. I won’t get into this since there are so many articles about it (see Google search) and because it is so obvious. It doesn’t take deep thinking to see why certain people are attracted to particular sports, whether by participating in them or as observers.
There are people who enjoy a bloody dog fight or a cock fight and who, if it was socially acceptable, would watch a death match involving people fighting each other or animals.
Trump seems obessesed with alligators. He might wish he could stage to the death alligator wrestling fights between immigrants and hungry giant gators. He’d rather put political enemies in a pit with a ravenous gator, but Trump wouldn't dare do this even though this would be a delicious fantasy for him. He wouldn’t want to literally eat Adam Schiff or Gavin Newsom for dinner with a side of fava beans (click here if you don’t get it and for the hidden joke click here); but he would probably would enjoy watching an alligator eat them.
These Trump pleasing battles with toothsome reptiles wouldn’t be the tame type you’d see at a park like Gatorland (right below). They’d be like the AI illustration below (left).
From bull fighting to baseball, we see vast differences in the types of sporting events that draw huge crowds.
The popular movies “High Noon” and “Gladiator” focused on life or death encounters. Children learn about the events which were held in the Coleseum in ancient Rome where gladiators fought each other or animals.
The following is from an article in The World History Encyclopedia.
The above illustration depicts the most common gladiator types in ancient Rome. These professional fighters, drawn from various backgrounds including slaves, prisoners of war, and volunteers, underwent rigorous training to master the use of weapons and various combat techniques. The gladiators were classified into types, such as the Thrax, murmillo, Samnite, and retiarius, based on their equipment, fighting style, and the cultural or regional origins that influenced their armaments and appearance. The gladiatorial games were in many ways a reflection of Roman society's values, glorifying themes of courage, skill, and the spectacle of life and death in the arena.
We all have seen movies or shows about people on hunts where the prey was another human. Squid Game is about a contest where the losers die. We’ve also seen movies where a Roman emperor gave a thumbs up or thumbs down at the end of a match to tell the victor whether to kill the loser or let him live.
Trump would relish being that emperor.
