Donald Trump is facing a fresh wave of outrage in Washington after commissioning a 5,000‑seat UFC arena on the White House South Lawn for his 80th birthday next week, a move his biographer says captures how the President's ego is 'sabotaging' him politically in plain sight.
Trump has tried to place himself at the centre of almost every spectacle in American life, from sports to television interviews. Author Michael Wolff, who has written extensively about Trump and spent months observing him in the West Wing during his first term, argues that this relentless effort to 'impose' himself on the public is now backfiring, turning once‑neutral events into reminders of Trump fatigue. Recent polling on the UFC event, combined with a loudly hostile reception at an NBA Finals game, suggests that even some Americans who once tolerated the show are beginning to tire of the act.
