Bill Maher Slams ‘redneck’ Trump Over Ufc Fight: ‘the Emperor Is Holding Gladiator Games On His Birthday’

Bill Maher didn’t clasp backmost while discussing Donald Trump’s day plans.

During Friday night’s section of Real Time pinch Bill Maher, the big took purpose astatine Trump up of Sunday’s planned Ultimate Fighting Championship match; a associated ceremony of Trump’s day and America’s 250th anniversary.

“Our redneck president is turning 80. And to celebrate, location is simply a UFC conflict connected nan lawn,” he said earlier quipping, “So nan emperor is holding gladiator games connected his birthday. Nothing to spot here. I wouldn’t deliberation astir it excessively much. Don’t interest astir it.

”Hopefully nan large conflict will besides service arsenic a ceremony for a bid woody pinch Iran, which nan president says is imminent. But he says that each week. They counted now; he has said it 38 times,” Maher continued.

Maher continued to jab astatine Trump’s repeated talks pinch Iran, saying, “It started with, ‘We person a bid deal.’ And past by nan end, ‘We’re gonna deed them very hard,’ each caps, ‘Very hard, we’re gonna deed them.’ And he thought astir it, pinch himself, and went backmost to peace.”

He concluded: “Do we moreover really request Iran successful this war? I mean, really, do we? Every clip they tube up, he says, ‘Who asked you? Stay retired of it.’”

Maher’s jabs come conscionable hours earlier nan UFC conflict is slated to return place.

A hulking superstructure is taking complete nan White House section for Sunday’s fight, coinciding pinch nan president’s 80th birthday and marking nan first-ever backstage sports arena held there. Crews person vanished installing a 92-foot-tall “Claw” supra nan octagon-shaped shape for UFC’s Freedom 250, surrounded by arena-style seating and plastered pinch marque names and institution logos, including Polymarket and Bud Light.

The arena — successful tandem pinch a White House-backed celebration of nan nation’s 250th anniversary — will clasp much than 4,000 people, and a adjacent parkland is expected to clasp much than 120,000 visitors for a watch party.

However, a national suit threatened to derail nan arena earlier it started. The last-minute filing accused nan management of giving nan UFC “unfettered access” to move nationalist landmarks into profitable billboards.

UFC committed $60 cardinal to nan event, according to tribunal documents. The arena is expected to tie multi-million dollar sponsorships arsenic good arsenic gross done a broadcast statement pinch Paramount+, a streaming level operated by Trump allies.

White House officials opportunity nan UFC is covering costs for nan unprecedented production, but respective national agencies person “allocated important resources and manpower,” officials say.

On apical of that, forecasted rainfall whitethorn lavation retired nan arena entirely.

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