Donald Trump returns to Madison Square Garden for UFC fight, flanked by Elon Musk and MAGA allies
The last time Trump was at MSG on October 27, he and his lineup organized a “racist, misogynistic, anti-Semitic” rally that “explicitly foreshadowed a second term,” as Vanity fairBess Levin reports.
There was a Trump surrogate and stand-up comedian Tony Hinchcliffe referring to Puerto Rico as “garbage” and saying that “these Latinos like to make babies too.” Just know that. They do. They do. There is no pulling out. They don’t. They come in. Just like they did to our country.” (The same man also made a racist comment about a black man and “watermelons” and described Palestinians as violent and Jews as cheap.)
Conservative radio host Sid Rosenberg called Hillary Clinton “Some sick bastard,” and added, “What a sick bastard.” The whole damn company, a bunch of degenerates, lowlifes, Jew-haters and lowlifes. Every one of them. Every one of them.” Real estate businessman Grant Cardone claimed Harris had “pimps.” And former Fox News host Tucker Carlson insulted Harris’ intelligence and mocked her ethnicity with a patently false description, saying, “It’s going to be pretty hard to look at us and say, ‘You know what, Kamala Harris, she’s just, she has 85 million received votes because she is so impressive. as the first low-IQ Samoan-Malaysian former California prosecutor ever elected president.’”
At that meeting, Trump himself invoked one of the phrases he repeated during his campaign, describing “a huge, vicious, crooked, radical left machine that runs today’s Democratic party” as the “enemy from within.”
Three weeks later, Trump was welcomed back to the Garden’s event pit Saturday evening Jon Jonesthe head fighter, against Stipe Miocic. Jones emerged victorious, and when he did, he decided to celebrate with a nod to Trump — imitating his signature dance move of pumping his fists through the air while gyrating his hips. Jones also presented the president-elect with his championship belt.
Trump’s recent visits to Manhattan come as he continues to await a New York judge’s decision in the criminal hush-money case in which he was convicted of 34 felonies for “falsifying business records relating to a hush-money payment to an adult film actress.” Stormy Daniel to silence allegations about a 2006 sexual encounter with Trump to boost his electoral prospects in the 2016 presidential election,” ABC News reports. Right Juan Merchan has until Tuesday, November 19 to decide the fate of the case and recommend next steps.
Trump is currently set to be sentenced later this month, but that could now change based on the Supreme Court’s July ruling on presidential immunity.
At this point, it’s unclear when Trump will be called back to town — not for another glorious evening at the Garden — but for his court appearance in the city.
