The UFC is hosting fights at the White House tonight. Here's what you need to know: 1. The UFC is spending $60 million to put on this event. That's way more than the $3-4 million the company typically spends to put on an event and three times the $20 million it spent at the Las Vegas Sphere in 2024. 2. The UFC sold $30 million in corporate sponsorship deals — Ram Trucks, Crypto(.)com, Polymarket, Bud Light — with individual packages selling for $1.5 million. 3. Since tickets are being given out for free, the event is expected to lose about $30 million. 4. The UFC's $7.7 billion media rights deal with Paramount allows some fights to be simulcast on CBS, but tonight's entire event will only be available on the Paramount streaming service. 5. There will be 4,000 people on the South Lawn for the event — Trump controls about 1,000 tickets, with Dana White and Ari Emanuel controlling another 500 or so. The remaining seats were given to active duty military members. These military members had to meet body composition standards and pay for their own travel. 6. The UFC installed a giant arch over the octagon known as the Claw. The structure is massive — 60 tons, 154 feet wide, and 92 feet high, with a 100-by-100-foot canopy and 800 lighting fixtures — and since the UFC isn't allowed to dig into the South Lawn, engineers added 40 tons of weight to each leg to hold it down. 7. The Claw was flown from Belgium to Philadelphia, test-assembled in Philly, and then trucked down to DC. Each truck was placed in storage before being searched by the Secret Service, and the UFC needed 38 days to assemble everything (compared to their normal 2 days). 8. The UFC is covering all production costs, but taxpayers are still on the hook for $10-12 million in supplemental security costs. The White House says this money would have been spent anyway and that it comes from a federal fund (approved by Congress) specifically allocated for events surrounding the country's 250th birthday. 9. Since attendance on the South Lawn is invite-only (and limited to 4,000 people), the UFC is holding a watch party at the Eliipise. Roughly 85,000 tickets have been distributed for free, and while the UFC plans to sell food, beverages, and merchandise, Dana White told ESPN that "the government will get a piece of it." 10. Every fighter will be wearing custom red, white, and blue gloves with an American flag stitched on the wrist. BONUS: Trump's latest financial disclosure indicates that he purchased up to $50,000 in TKO stock, the parent company of the UFC. Some say this is a conflict of interest, while others claim it is insignificant, given that his full financial disclosure included over 3,700 stock and bond trades worth more than $220 million. That's it for today. Enjoy the event, and if you want to learn more about the business and money behind sports, join 135,000 others who read my newsletter. Sign up: huddleup.substack.com/

Anyone feel me on this? I’m usually good, but when I think about the nonsense we’ve been living through for the last 2 years, I get pissed off all over again. The morons who voted for Trump because they believed he would lower grocery prices and end all wars got us a half-torn-down White House, a UFC cage on the South Lawn and an economy in the toilet.

🚨 BOMBSHELL! Expert Ellen Kountz exposes Trump's massive UFC scam. She confirms he became a shareholder right before signing the White House event deal! The administration is using federal property and taxpayer dollars to completely privatize profits. Total corruption!

Marco Rubio: “I have never seen Trump fall asleep.” White House: “He’s blinking.” Fox News: “He’s resting his eyes.” Normal People: “THAT’S CALLED SLEEPING, YOU FUCKING PARASITES OF THE PRESIDENTIAL COLON SOCIETY.”

One day I hope MAGA supporters can ADMIT if Barack Hussien Obama had done anything remotely close to this, we’d still be hearing about it today

🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: Former UFC champion Daniel Cormier reportedly posted — and then deleted — screenshots appearing to show direct messages from Eric Trump. According to the screenshots, Eric Trump allegedly asked questions about upcoming fights connected to the UFC event being held at the White House. The screenshots quickly spread online before the post was removed. At this time, the authenticity and full context of the messages have not been independently verified. Developing.

The White House is now beefing with the weather

MAJOR BREAKING: In a now deleted post by former MMA fighter Daniel Cormier, he posted screenshots of Eric Trump trying to get an insider scoop on whether any of the MMA fights at the White House are rigged so that he could try and illegally make money off of them.. Below is the Direct Messages that Trump allegedly sent Cormier. There is no reason to doubt the legitimacy of these messages.

Eric Trump got caught trying to rig fights at the UFC event tonight. The entire Trump family are scammers and con artists. Disgusting.

COME ON SCOTLAND 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Hard to believe this is from a guy who inherited $413 million from his father only to declare bankruptcy 6 times before convincing an NBC producer to bail him out by creating a fictional show that he was a successful businessman.

C’mon Scotland! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇭🇹

This week the most advanced AI model on the planet got switched off by a foreign government. British researchers were studying it. British companies were testing it. British hospitals were piloting it. Not any more. This isn't an AI story. It's the story of every industry we used to lead. Britain has some of the best AI talent in the world. DeepMind was built here. Our AI Safety Institute writes the rules other countries follow. We have the researchers, the universities, the standards. What we don't have is the power stations to run the data centres, the planning system to build them, or the industrial base to make the chips. So the work happens here and the value lands somewhere else. We invent. Others build. Others decide. Then we read about it on Saturday morning. Same story as the kit our soldiers don't have. Same story as the factories we used to. I spent nine months in government making this argument inside the room. I'll make it louder from outside.

Reason #1,000,000,000,000 why we should tax the rich.

The 10 hours of erecting scaffolding wasn’t to strip the letters (something that 30 minutes in a boom lift could accomplish), it was to conceal the view with a curtain because Trump couldn’t handle the optics of the letters of his name being plucked off the building.

Wow 🤩 beautiful double rainbow 🌈 , the metaphor of this moment in time seeing Trump name taken off the John F. Kennedy Center. Plus it’s two days before Donald’s 80th birthday, wonderful!

Elon Musk is set to become a trillionaire within the next few months and a Karl Marx quote comes to mind. "One day there will be trillionaires, but you will still have nothing." Amazing powers of prediction.

St Peter's Chapel, Bradwell was built in 654. Not just before the Norman Conquest. Before England itself. 🇬🇧

Reuters: US JUDGE ORDERS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO REINSTALL SIGNS, EXHIBITS IT REMOVED FROM NATIONAL PARKS DISCUSSING TOPICS LIKE SLAVERY, CLIMATE CHANGE