Overview
- Jimmy Kimmel ridiculed a reported plan to stage UFC fights on the White House lawn on June 14, the date of President Trump’s 80th birthday.
- He said the weigh-ins were slated for the Lincoln Memorial and argued that using the site for such a spectacle would be inappropriate.
- Kimmel claimed a temporary arena was being discussed at about 5,000 seats after an initial idea of 20,000.
- He accused defenders of memorial sanctity of hypocrisy and portrayed Trump as being treated like a three-year-old in an extended riff.
- The specifics remain unconfirmed, with details circulating via media recaps of Kimmel’s monologue and some reporting framing the idea as linked to America’s 250th anniversary.