Thousands of people turned up for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) event at New York City’s Madison Square Garden this weekend, including Donald Trump and his sons, Donald Jr. and Eric.
The Trumps arrived to the sound of ‘Back in Black’ by AC/DC (a classic), but the song was almost drowned out by the crowd.
New Yorkers are notoriously opposed to the current administration in America, and you won’t see a lot of MAGA hats on the subway.
President Trump, however, felt like his entrance was very well received.
This video tells a different story:
Trump got booed at the World Series so he decided to come to an MMA fight in NYC.
He just entered and the crowd booed like hell.
— Joshua Potash
(@JoshuaPotash) November 3, 2019
That’s a lot of booing.
On the other hand, this video makes it look like quite a few people were cheering:
The crowd at MSG as Trump takes his seat for the UFC fights pic.twitter.com/9ACcWCispp
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) November 3, 2019
Still a lot of booing, though. One last video to round things off:
Here is President Trump entering MSG for UFC 244.
@jasonrubin91 pic.twitter.com/AVbbFHk6Av
— Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) November 3, 2019
Right, now that you’ve seen those clips, let’s get into the real scandal, which took place after the event starting with this tweet from President Trump:
So, he clearly had a good time. According to TIME, the hosts of Fox and Friends also agreed that the crowd cheered the president.
We can see from the above videos that his reception wasn’t as fantastic as he’d like to believe. Also, this:
Outside of the stadium, the President also had a polarized reception from demonstrators. A gathered crowd held up a mix of “Trump 2020!” and “Impeach Trump” signs. Some chanted “Danger, danger! There’s a fascist in the White House!” while others shouted “four more years!”
In true Trump family style, his sons have now weighed in to lie about what happened.
Rolling Stone notes that according to Donald Jr. and Eric, the noise heard from the UFC crowd accompanying their father’s entrance into the arena was nothing but full support and cheers.
I think it’s your spelling of ’embarras’ that is the real beauty there, Eric.
“Fake news”, “leftist hacks”, “greatest entrance…ever seen”. Yeah, we’ve heard all of that before.
The apple clearly doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Look, we can see from the videos that depending on where you were sitting at the event, you heard something different.
It wasn’t overwhelmingly positive or negative.
The Trump family response, however, is legitimately fake news.
[sources:time&rollingstone]
