Andy did you hear about this one?
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People who didn’t live through this time are going to find it impossible to imagine what it was like:
The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) announced on Friday that it will pay bonuses to fighters in a form of cryptocurrency issued by Trump family business World Liberty Financial at the heavily publicized White House mixed martial arts event on Sunday.
The development connects the Trump family’s financial interests to the high-profile UFC competition being promoted on government property. The competition on the south White House lawn is scheduled for 14 June, Donald Trump’s birthday.
The UFC said some fighters will receive bonuses in World Liberty Financial crypto called “stablecoins”, whose value is pegged to the US dollar. World Liberty named the currency “USD1”.
World Liberty is a venture of the Trump family and the family of Steven Witkoff, Trump’s friend and special envoy to the Middle East. The company is now listed as an “official sponsor” of UFC Freedom 250, the fight scheduled for Sunday. The use of its stablecoin in the fight would appear to boost efforts to have it used more more broadly.
White House spokesman Davis Ingle said there is no conflict of interest and that Trump’s assets are in a trust managed by his children. “The Fake News’ continued attempts to fabricate conflicts of interest are irresponsible and reinforce the public’s distrust in what they read.”
The fight is not linked to Freedom 250, a separate organization promoting the 250th anniversary of the country.
World Liberty Financial, a Delaware-based cryptocurrency venture co-founded by Donald Trump and his sons in 2024 alongside the Witkoff sons , has emerged as one of the highest-profile businesses connected to the president’s family.
At one point, Trump Sr was publicly listed by the company as its “Chief Crypto Advocate”.
His financial disclosure form lists his holdings in World Liberty Financial as “over $50m ”.
Reuters reported this month that the Trump family’s crypto ventures, led by WLF, have generated billions of dollars in paper gains and become one of the largest sources of wealth tied to the president and his family.
World Liberty announced the company was creating a “bonus pool” for the event the company and quoted Zach Witkoff, Steve Witkoff’s son and CEO of World Liberty Financial. “We believe this is the future of finance, and we’re excited to partner with UFC,” he said, “which has done more than any organization to modernize the business of sports”.
World Liberty was dogged by controversies surrounding its digital “governance token”, a type of crypto it sold, and is in litigation with Justin Sun, the crypto tycoon who was an early buyer of the tokens. He sued the company this year alleging it improperly froze his tokens, and World Liberty sued him for defamation.
This story by itself would be the biggest financial scandal of any previous presidency. As it stands it isn’t even the biggest financial scandal of this month of the Trump presidency.
Evangelicals might note that there’s a good chance several Biblical plagues will descend on tonight’s festivities:
President Donald Trump’s highly anticipated UFC bout taking place on his 80th birthday at the White House is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. on Sunday—but the possibility of volatile weather in the Washington, D.C., area, including potential thunderstorms, high winds, hail, and also the chance for swarms of insects, could put a damper on the festivities tonight.
“When you’re a fighter, think about that lighting grid,” White said. “The amount of power in the lights, moths, gnats, and god knows what else.” Later, he admitted dealing with issues like insects is “why I don’t like fighting outside, ever.” An entomologist who spoke to Axios said he expected a “100%” chance of bugs on Sunday night, including mosquitos, mayflies, moths and even possibly biting black flies.
Of course any such events will be attributed to Satan, who is invariably blamed in these situations, which makes no sense give that is his all-time favorite president is hosting.
. . . remember when in The Shining Jack Nicholson’s book just turns out to be the sentence “All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” typed several thousand times?
The Triumph of Stupidity could just be this, repeated similarly:
White House spokesman Davis Ingle said there is no conflict of interest and that Trump’s assets are in a trust managed by his children.
We are the stupidest nation in the known universe.