Hunter Biden, son of former President Joe Biden, proposed a sports spectacle of his own while trashing the recent UFC event at the White House.
“Cage match between me and Don Jr.?” Hunter, 56, wrote via X on Thursday, June 18. “Your call on the venue. Anywhere but the South Lawn.”
UFC Freedom 250 was held on the South Lawn of the White House on Sunday, June 14, and attended by multiple members of the Trump family, including President Trump and Donald Trump Jr., amid plenty of controversy.
Hunter addressed comments made by UFC commentator Joe Rogan, who told critics of the event to “shut the f*** up” on a recent episode of his mega-popular podcast.
“For me, it had nothing to do with the UFC or who showed up for the fights,” Hunter said. “The brand you and Dana [White] have built is a bona fide American success story. More power to you. As for the fighters, in my book, anyone brave enough to put it all on the line in the arena is remarkable to witness. Their dedication and discipline inspire me. I don’t understand anyone who can’t admire that.”
However, Hunter promoted his belief that “some of our public spaces are sacred.”
“Unlike many of the great powers that came before us, these American monuments belong to all of us,” he said. “Not to whoever happens to hold power at the moment. The White House does not belong to Donald Trump. It does not belong to any President. It belongs to the people. To treat it as Caesar treated the Colosseum is antithetical to everything our founding fathers fought for. This is not Rome. Presidents are not emperors doling out bread and circuses for the peasants.”
Hunter said there wouldn’t have been any “issue” with the event if it had been held “in any stadium within a stone’s throw of the South Lawn.”
“But that was obviously Donald Trump’s whole point,” he continued. “By holding the event on the South Lawn, what he was saying to the rest of us is: ‘This is my house. I own it. I will do with it what I please. I’ll build a colosseum and have the gladiators fight under my gaze. I’ll tear down the East Wing. I’ll pave over the Rose Garden. I’ll cover everything in gold and marble. I’ll erase the names of all the men who came before me.’”
Hunter added, “The fights were an exhibition of imperial domination, not a celebration of our 250th anniversary as a democracy. The White House is not Buckingham Palace. It is not the Palace of Versailles. It is not the Forbidden City of Beijing. It does not belong to an emperor, or a king, or a commissar. The White House belongs to us. All of us. The person who sits behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office is nothing more than an honored guest. A temporary caretaker.”
Trump Jr., 48, has not responded to Hunter’s challenge to a cage match at the time of publication.
