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I had never <\/span>heard of Josh Hokit until the other week. But the little I quickly learned about the immigrant-bashing, trans-hating Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter was enough to guess, correctly, that Hokit was the man behind the UFC Freedom 250\u2019s most despicable moment on Sunday. <\/p>

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\u201cMichelle Obama is a man,\u201d Hokit belted out. \u201cAm I right, America?\u201d <\/p>\n

The slur, which came during a post-fight interview with Joe Rogan,was met with a mix of cheers and boo\u2019s. Others, like Rogan, seemed taken aback, appearing to wonder: Even for a corruption-soaked night already teeming with vulgarity, did this Hokit guy go too far?<\/p>\n

UFC president and CEO Dana White seems to think so. \u201cI\u2019m completely against saying nasty and false things about people\u2019s families,\u201d he has since told Time<\/em>. But what had White been expecting? Here was a man made notorious through \u201cnasty and false\u201d insults. As Kyle Green, a sociologist who writes on the intersection of sports and politics, told me in advance of Sunday\u2019s spectacle:<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s also\u00a0Josh Hokit, who\u2019s going to fight on the [White House card]. People who know him from his days as a college wrestler say he\u2019s just playing a character in the UFC. But when he gets in front of the mic now, he wears an American flag bandana, and he says that he wants to kick Mexicans out of the country, or he\u2019ll say that he wants to beat up transgender people, that\u00a0Brittney Griner\u00a0is a man. He\u2019ll say the most offensive things, leaning into the MAGA fan base. Again, I don\u2019t know if he believes it or not. But it doesn\u2019t really matter, right? Because that\u2019s the thing that sells.<\/p>

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It\u2019s the kind of behavior long excused as \u201csmack talk,\u201d fighting words intended to antagonize one\u2019s opponent. But over the past decade, the UFC\u2019s bear-hug embrace of more distinctly hateful rhetoric follows the contours of the broader permission President Trump gave to such language. It also, as Green told me, speaks to the increasing pressures some fighters have to play characters they think will appeal to their fanbases:<\/p>\n

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Trump has enabled it, and that\u2019s how I think about it outside of the UFC. We see people, whether it\u2019s online or on the street, much more willing to say racist and sexist things. I don\u2019t think he caused it, but I think he\u2019s enabled it. What fighters have to do now, [taunting and smack-talking], is, in part, because the UFC labour model is a really grotesque one, in that fighters are technically independent contractors with very few protections and rights. It\u2019s very different from boxing, where they have the\u00a0Muhammad Ali Act.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Which isn\u2019t to say that Hokit may not believe the cruelty that animated his slur on Sunday night. Nor is it to blame the UFC\u2019s terrible labor rights for incentivizing it. But to even contemplate Hokit\u2019s motivations is to extend this man unearned, far-too-generous consideration. Because hurling a vulgar insult against a Black former first lady during a White House event, ostensibly to honor America\u2019s 250th birthday, is a choice\u2014and Hokit enjoyed making it. Let reminders of it attach itself to every oligarch, Republican, Trump family member, and corporation that went along with this cage fight.<\/p>

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Josh Hokit\u2019s slur against Michelle Obama concluded an evening already teeming with vulgarity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"\nThe UFC\u2019s Despicable Night at the White House - 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=590\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The UFC\u2019s Despicable Night at the White House - Moving and Mortgage Hub\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Josh Hokit\u2019s slur against Michelle Obama concluded an evening already teeming with vulgarity.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/?p=590\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Moving and Mortgage Hub\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-06-15T15:38:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/movingandmortgagehub.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/dccca62360a092c48538410da4176291.webp\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1124\" \/>\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=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingandmortgagehub.com\\\/?p=590#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingandmortgagehub.com\\\/?p=590\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingandmortgagehub.com\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/6b7c79bcfd888d98f34c5413df7e81a2\"},\"headline\":\"The UFC\u2019s Despicable Night at the White House\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-06-15T15:38:27+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingandmortgagehub.com\\\/?p=590\"},\"wordCount\":613,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingandmortgagehub.com\\\/?p=590#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingandmortgagehub.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/06\\\/fb0f6f3dc1e88c68da6c73a26c57aa55.webp\",\"articleSection\":[\"Politics\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/movingandmortgagehub.com\\\/?p=590#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingandmortgagehub.com\\\/?p=590\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/movingandmortgagehub.com\\\/?p=590\",\"name\":\"The UFC\u2019s Despicable Night at the White House - 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