{"id":292,"date":"2026-05-27T17:10:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=292"},"modified":"2026-05-27T17:10:05","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:10:05","slug":"what-the-hell-is-that-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=292","title":{"rendered":"What the Hell Is That Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At first,<\/span> when I saw these photos of curling scaffolding outside the White House, I thought construction was beginning on the Trump Arch. That assumption, however, shows my limited fluency in Donald Trump\u2019s vanity projects. <\/p>

Read more Everyone\u2019s on GLP-1s. But at What Cost?<\/a><\/p>\n

This is actually something else entirely: a tarantula-like stage being built for the president\u2019s birthday cage fight extravaganza, called UFC Freedom 250. The fights, which will be part of Trump\u2019s America 250 celebration, will reportedly cost $60 million. Trump announced the event last year during a visit to the Iowa State Fair. This summer, it\u2019s happening for real, featuring boxers Ilia Tupuria and Justin Gaethje.<\/p>\n

Oh, you didn\u2019t realize a cage fight was happening at the White House soon? Neither did many of us. Here is a list of things that people at the Center for Investigative Reporting\u2019s<\/em> New York office think the arena, at least in its current iteration, resembles instead:<\/p>

Read more Everyone\u2019s on GLP-1s. But at What Cost?<\/a><\/p>\n

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  1. Alien egg<\/li>\n
  2. Elon Musk\u2019s first installation on Mars<\/li>\n
  3. Mall bungee jumping setup, near the food court, right around the corner from Claire\u2019s, probably smelling faintly of cheese.<\/li>\n
  4. Rollercoaster, but little <\/li>\n
  5. Church carnival in a parking lot<\/li>\n
  6. The millionth Transformers film<\/li>\n
  7. The launch celebration for a new and improved NuvaRing. This one is sort of high-concept, and I don\u2019t really understand it, but I believe my colleagues and here\u2019s a link where you can judge for yourself.<\/li>\n
  8. St. Louis Arch (a.k.a The Gateway Arch, but a Lego Technic version.)<\/li>\n
  9. McDonald\u2019s Arches.<\/li>\n
  10. Installation purpose-built for a mid-sized city\u2019s bid to host the Olympics<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I\u2019m no architecture critic, so there\u2019s not much else for me to add here. If tickets to the fight didn\u2019t (reportedly) cost $1.5 million, I\u2019d check it out. I think the Transformers<\/em> movies are pretty neat, and I think that there are many worse things the president could be wasting his time on than a UFC fight.<\/p>

    Read more Oh Goody, a Trump Official Once Called Ebola a \u201cScam\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<\/article>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Check out these photos of Trump\u2019s birthday cage fight setup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\nWhat the Hell Is That Thing - Moving and Mortgage Hub<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=292\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What the Hell Is That Thing - Moving and Mortgage Hub\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Check out these photos of Trump\u2019s birthday cage fight setup.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=292\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Moving and Mortgage Hub\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-05-27T17:10:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4b7a396176ab72e449076cd68c0b368f-1024x576.webp\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"576\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/webp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingandmortgagehub.com\\\/?p=292#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingandmortgagehub.com\\\/?p=292\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingandmortgagehub.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/6b7c79bcfd888d98f34c5413df7e81a2\"},\"headline\":\"What the Hell Is That Thing\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-05-27T17:10:05+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingandmortgagehub.com\\\/?p=292\"},\"wordCount\":359,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingandmortgagehub.com\\\/?p=292#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingandmortgagehub.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/05\\\/03c6d04ac59f88c69d5dd7f40a3e164b.webp\",\"articleSection\":[\"Politics\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/movingandmortgagehub.com\\\/?p=292#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingandmortgagehub.com\\\/?p=292\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingandmortgagehub.com\\\/?p=292\",\"name\":\"What the Hell Is That Thing - 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