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Interesting conversation here (gf) about Donald Trump trying to meld his 80th birthday with America’s 250th, by among other things holding a bunch of UFC fights on the White House lawn, as a sort of spectacle of hyper-masculinity.
Siegel: I’d add here that, according to The Washington Post, the military personnel who were selected to have tickets to this event, and at least half of the people watching it — a few thousand will be military — are required to meet current waist-to-height ratio and physical fitness standards. So, the crowd should look good.
Wehner: Yeah, well, I guess there’ll be an exception for the president.
And by interesting I mean horrifying in a gawking at a car crash of a nation kind of way.