{"id":170,"date":"2026-06-13T13:39:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T13:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businessmovingservicess.com\/?p=170"},"modified":"2026-06-13T13:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T13:39:19","slug":"trump-is-throwing-himself-a-ufc-themed-birthday-party-actors-and-activists-are-fighting-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businessmovingservicess.com\/?p=170","title":{"rendered":"Trump Is Throwing Himself a UFC-Themed Birthday Party. Actors and Activists Are Fighting Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\nDonald Trump is once again using taxpayer resources to throw himself a birthday party. Last year, it was a sparsely attended military parade on the National Mall. This year, the president wants blood sport, hosting an exclusive, open-air UFC event on the South Lawn of the White House that is estimated to cost upwards of $60 million. But while the president and his guests enjoy a night of man-on-man action at the White House, artists and celebrities will be hosting a benefit concert protesting the American Nero\u2019s personal circus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/businessmovingservicess.com\/?p=168\">The Gospel of Erika Kirk: Leaning In With the Christian Women of TPUSA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cRise Up Sing Out\u201d will take place on June 14 in New York City, and feature headline artists and speakers including Rufus Wainwright, Bette Midler, Patti Smith, Joy Reid \u2014 with watch parties being planned across the county. Ticket sales for the concert will benefit the Committee for the First Amendment, an alliance of celebrities, actors, and artists formed during the McCarthy era, and brought back last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe group was revived by actress and longtime activist Jane Fonda. Her father, the actor Henry Fonda, was a vocal opponent of the Hollywood Blacklisting conducted by the entertainment industry under pressure from the Republican anti-communist Red Scare led by former Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) Fonda helped found the committee as a public show of support to the \u201cHollywood Ten,\u201d 10 directors and screenwriters who were held in contempt by Congress after refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\tJane Fonda will headline the concert, which will be held at New York City\u2019s Town Hall, an auditorium founded by New York suffragists in the 1920s with a capacity for 1,500. (It was famously the site where Margaret Sanger \u2014 the founder of Planned Parenthood \u2014 was arrested at an educational meeting on birth control.) Last year, Fonda, now 88, announced the reformation of the committee at an ACLU event, saying that the need for organized protest and participation from the arts transcended Trump, who she describes as a fascist. \u201cIt\u2019s not [just] Trump. If Trump died, we\u2019d get another one,\u201d like him, she said.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n\t\u201cWe\u2019ve gone past the period of protests. I mean, it\u2019s protests are good because they remind us that we\u2019re not alone, but the people in the White House, they\u2019ll just wait us out. They don\u2019t care,\u201d she said. \u201cWhat we have to do now is called non-cooperation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe event is also being promoted by the organizers of the massive No Kings protests that have in the past been timed to coincide with events promoted by Trump \u2014 including his birthday parade in 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tEzra Levin \u2014 co-founder of Indivisible, one of the primary organizations behind the No Kings movement \u2014 explained to <em>Rolling Stone <\/em>that given the attention surrounding the UFC event, and the fact that it will effectively be closed to the public, prompted the coalition of activists to \u201cthrow in on something so people can give their attention to something else, ideally something with a pro-democracy bent.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/businessmovingservicess.com\/?p=166\">Elon Musk\u2019s a Trillionaire. Here Are Other Shocking Numbers Defining His Legacy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn a break with longstanding tradition and the bounds of American ethics laws, the White House event will be packed with corporate sponsorships \u2014 including Crypto.com, Dodge Ram, Bud Light, and Polymarket. Historically, White House ethics officers have avoided giving the impression that corporations can secure access to the president and his government through donations and sponsorships, but those standards have been drowned in the Potomac during the Trump presidency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tReported attendees to the UFC event include the Trump family, Jared and Ivanka Kushner, members of Trump\u2019s cabinet, a whole host of right wing celebrities and influencers, and hundreds of military members (if they meet the strict physical fitness requirements set by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe fights will almost certainly take place on Sunday, but in a last-ditch effort to rain on Trump\u2019s parade \u2014 outside of the wet and muggy forecasted weather in Washington D.C. this weekend \u2014 one organization has  in an attempt to shut the whole thing down.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cThe number one thing Trump wants now, as he always wants, is all attention on him,\u201d Levin tells <em>Rolling Stone. <\/em>\u201cThat\u2019s why he\u2019s throwing himself this birthday party, too, with a whole bunch of donors and attendants, because he\u2019s always looking to make some money on whatever grift he\u2019s got going on.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cI think it\u2019s important for us to continue to hammer the message that he clearly cares about himself and enriching himself and his buddies,\u201d he added. \u201cIf we\u2019re going to stop him, we\u2019ve got to focus on organizing our own communities.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/businessmovingservicess.com\/?p=164\">Elon Musk Becomes World\u2019s First Trillionaire After SpaceX IPO Opens on Wall Street<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Rise Up Sing Out&#8221; concert will take place the same day Donald Trump is hosting a UFC match at the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resist"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump Is Throwing Himself a UFC-Themed Birthday Party. 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