Seth Meyers rips into Trumps UFC birthday party

Jun 16, 2026 | Blog | 0 comments

By jasondouglasallen

Donald Trump threw himself and America a lavish $60 million birthday party on the White House lawn on Sunday, and Seth Meyers dug into the details on Late Night.

“Donald Trump threw himself a birthday party at the White House with big strong men fighting each other and motorcycles flying through the air, and then he gave himself the gift of a peace deal with Iran that accomplished nothing other than getting us back to where we were before the war began,” said Meyers on Monday night. “But at least his name is still on the Kennedy Center. Right? Oh, it’s not.”

Trump’s Freedom 250 event, which marked the president’s 80th birthday and America’s 250 years of independence, involved an Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) on the South Lawn, held in a 92-foot steel arena called “The Claw.”

“So, The Claw was in place at the White House, as I’m sure the Founding Fathers would have loved, and to prepare for the fight, there was a press conference at the Lincoln Memorial, which had to be one of the weirdest things anyone’s seen in our nation’s capital,” said Meyers. “Look at Lincoln in the background. It’s like he saw what they were doing and said, ‘Oh, I gotta sit down.'”

The event didn’t exactly earn public praise, as Meyers pointed out that a recent Reuters poll shows just 16 percent of Americans, including only a third ‌of Republicans, approve of UFC fights being held at the White House — and as CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten pointed out, that’s lower than the 28 percent of Americans who believe in telepathy.

“Fewer Americans support UFC fights in the White House than believe in telepathy,” said Meyers. “Oh, speaking of which, I’m getting a message, I’m telepathically communicating with the American people, and they’re telling me…wait…yes, this sucks.”

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