The White House as a locker room for MMA: Trump marks his 80th birthday with an unprecedented show
15 June 2026 at 14:16
In Idiocracy (2006), a savage satire that imagines life in the United States in 2505 after centuries of dysgenics and collective dumbing-down, the countryβs president is a retired professional wrestler who mounts the floor of Congress to deliver the State of the Union address to pounding hard-rock music and ultimately presides over a sadistic, idiotic version of a fight in a Roman circus.

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