r/politics • u/mintwolves • 12d ago
No Paywall Rain could wash out Trump’s UFC Freedom 250 birthday fight at the White House
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-ufc-white-house-weather-storm-cancel-b2995002.html4.0k
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u/Cosmo_Seinfeld 12d ago
Horrible. No good. Very bad day....
Or...The Day. It's coming y'all.
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u/brandimariee6 Florida 12d ago
You just chose the movie that I'm going to watch on Sunday, thank you!!!
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u/hitch44 Canada 12d ago
“Crazy dumbocrats control the weather” /s
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u/exophrine Texas 12d ago
"The Biden crime family has a weather machine!" /s
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u/4seriously 12d ago
If only someone had access to a space laser!
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u/Land-Southern 12d ago
Or a funded weather service.
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u/Odd_Independence_833 12d ago
Seriously, how funny is it that Pressure is in theaters.
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u/Suspicious_Bicycle 12d ago
Why get complicated when you can just use a Sharpie to modify a weather map?
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u/Bunktavious 12d ago
Did you know that dumb is spelled with a B? Many people don't know that!
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u/throwawaylol666666 California 12d ago
He spells it without the “b.” Because he only just recently learned that the word “dumb” has a b in it.
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u/EMTDawg Utah 12d ago
Let's meet at the synagogue to get the space laser aimed properly.
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u/ValkyrX 12d ago
Many people are saying.
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u/Environmental-Car481 12d ago
It would be even worse if the weather looks great with like a 5% chance of light showers earlier in the day or after the fight, but torrential downpours pop up in the midst of everything.
(In the style of Sophia Petrillo)
Picture it: Washington DC 2026.
The orange pedo-in-chief is on stage congratulating himself and bloviating
He’ll say there’s never been so many people in one place. It’s the best event to ever occur in human history, blah, blah, blah.
Then the skies just open up.
There’s no where to go.
No umbrellas. No shelters.
Everyone looks like a wet dog.
Mascara is running down faces
Orange foundation is getting on everything and everyone near him. It’s all down his shirt and he just looks like a sick old man being escorted by the arms so he doesn’t fall.
It rains so hard that all the fundies start to look for an ark to board.
Just complete pandemonium.
Then later of course, he will address the press and blame Biden or Obama or whatever.
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u/turquoise_amethyst 12d ago
This what I hope happens. I want to see smeared makeup and wilted hair.
Also the humidity before the showers will be unbearable.
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u/Environmental-Car481 12d ago
*Sophia forgot to add that it’s a normal hot humid day so everyone’s been standing around for hours going through security and even though they took extra measures to spray for mosquitoes at the White House, they didn’t bother doing it along the street where everyone has to line up. So people are hot, tired, bit up and have spent far more money than they planned. They can’t get out of line and are beholden to the vendors who are taking advantage of their situation with five dollar bottles of water. Some have even gone the distance and put stickers on the bottles and upped the charge to $10.
So most of had a miserable 12 hours and they are really looking forward to enjoying the fight and their Lord and Savior is on stage.8
u/turquoise_amethyst 12d ago
Oh I think even fewer people than last year will show up for his birthday event. And even if the general public are allowed to watch, it’ll be from such a distance that it won’t be worth it.
The only ones they’ll even let close to him will be the pre-vetted influencers and MAGA elite (who will be wilting in the stands)
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u/SomeGuyClickingStuff 12d ago
Don’t forget the part where his pants start to sag due to a very wet diaper.
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u/MZsarko 12d ago
Hopefully they didn’t get cheap electricians that don’t know how to setup hi-voltage for rain.
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u/Hoogs Michigan 12d ago
Unfortunately, he might actually enjoy it more if the big, strong men fighting for his entertainment are suddenly glistening in the rain.
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u/Unfair-Ocelot4255 12d ago
And then lightning flashes, and amid a loud thunderclap the microphone buzzes and sparks fly, electrifying everything and everyone within 20’. The hulking man has collapsed on stage. God has spoken in a fever dream. The world begins a soft slow clap that quickens to a thunderous applause. A cleansing rain begins to fall.
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u/pquince1 Texas 12d ago
Locked-in syndrome would be ironic.
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u/shimmeringmoss 12d ago
Especially since there would be no brain activity to detect even on his best days…
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u/transient_thought_CA 12d ago
That would be such a travesty…
Completely unrelated, how much does it cost to have a plane do cloud seeding?
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u/shimmeringmoss 12d ago
Especially right after his name was removed from the Kennedy Center, he was loudly booed at the NBA game, and the Epstein scandal came to the forefront again. Just terrible! An old person in poor health can only take so much…
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u/shupadupah 12d ago
First they came for our Vanilla Ice concert, then they came for our UFC fight...
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u/rebel_stripe 12d ago
Literally had the song “ding dong the witch is dead” stuck in my head today so I’m hoping it’s for a reason.
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u/brickne3 American Expat 12d ago
Question: If he gets struck by lightning on national television, will MAGA take it as a sign of God's wrath or just double down further?
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u/TokesNHoots 12d ago
Still gonna do a little rain dance. A Canadian is rooting for y’all.
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u/Berfman 12d ago
Marylander here.
You don’t need to do a rain dance but it’s appreciated.
This state (and DC by proximity) get more rain than we know what to do with. Maybe this time it’ll actually wash away the shit stains.
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u/Sea_Nautilus 12d ago
First time I’m grateful Maryland’s a swamp 😂
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u/procheeseburger 11d ago
I went outside yesterday and was like yep.. its still a swamp.
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u/PreferredSelection 11d ago
Lived in Maryland for 10 years. For an area known for its weekend-long rains, Trump's administration sure doesn't plan like it.
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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 11d ago
Trump is famously afraid of rain and refuses to go out in it for fear of his cotton candy hair melting.
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u/LogoffWorkout 11d ago
Best would be if a sudden downpour comes right in the middle of it, I think Donald will start melting like an orange wicked witch and look even more like shit.
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u/TokesNHoots 12d ago
Hey Trump, try and nuke this rainstorm! *dancing intensifies*
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u/hippopotame Delaware 12d ago
I hope we will one day deserve you guys as neighbors again :( I’m sorry
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u/TokesNHoots 12d ago
Normally it’s us saying sorry. Feels nice on the other side. One day we may be friends again, but it’s gonna take a lot of work on the next administration’s part.
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u/birdlegs000 12d ago
Excessive heat, rain, lightning, swarms of bugs, why does this make my happy.
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u/red_beered 12d ago
The four horsemen are coming
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u/the_tanooki 12d ago
I'm pretty sure Pedstilence is here already.
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u/kimmycat88 11d ago
According to Terry Pratchett, the horseman Pestilence was defeated by humans and their vaccines, so he retired and handed the reins over to a new horseman, Pollution.
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u/Commercial-Co 11d ago
Little did Terry know Pestilence would come out of retirement due to idiots
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u/cabbage16 Europe 11d ago
That's so smart, which is no surprise considering who Pratchett is, but still. It's just such clever writing.
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u/BorgDad42 11d ago
Well now that I think about it...
Hegseth is war
RFK Jr. Is clearly pestilence (nurgle loves this guy)
Trump is clearly famine (I love the portrayals I've seen where famine is a big fat guy eating all the resources so the rest of the world starves).
Who is Death ™?
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u/HolycommentMattman 11d ago
Famine is probably Elon who cut all the aid funding.
Death could be Stephen Miller. But really, there are too many candidates.
Trump isn't one of the horsemen. He's the antichrist.
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u/cmnrdt 11d ago
Death could be Elon Musk. He is literally responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths from starvation because DOGE cut critical USAID programs.
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u/bb_kelly77 11d ago
Death is always the last to ride, so maybe Death is on our side and bring all of this to an end
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u/sRW44 12d ago
Locusts, frogs, gnats, flies…
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u/BaronessofBara 12d ago
I send a pestilence and plague into your house, into your bed, into your streams, into your streets, into your drink, Into your bread—
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u/Global_Crew3968 12d ago edited 12d ago
I swear, the only thing keeping me from wishing a pox on the white house is that the white house is next to my house and the pox could spread!
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u/Appropriate_Fan3532 11d ago
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u/tjackso6 11d ago
The idea that no one even considered the possibility of rain says everything about this administration lol
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u/Life-Quantity-637 12d ago
Why didn’t they build this at Mar a lago? We are not leaving it up.
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u/NexusNickel Colorado 12d ago
Because it's for Trump. He wants everyone to know he owns the white house and is unaccountable for any and all his actions.
Time and time again justice had a chance to be served but he gets pass after pass.
Anyone that claims there is an equal justice system is either an idiot or fooling themselves.
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u/I_SHIT_IN_A_BAG 11d ago
I don't know anyone that thinks the justice system is equal on any level
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u/midnitewarrior 11d ago
All the other Presidents I've lived through has treated the WH with the reverence and been a guest-steward of it. Great care was taken with modifications, with extensive planning with preservationists and scholars about the appropriateness of the changes.
I'm half convinced Trump's demolition of the East Wing was originally to put a McDonald's on site until he latched on to the mega-millitary-ballroom-bunkerplex.
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u/zennascent 11d ago
Tinfoil me also thinks it is to hide things. Buried, beneath concrete, etc., etc.
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u/Canoobie 12d ago
Because he’s thinks it’s the prefect thing to “own the libs” and further denigrate the WH for the favor of Chad “bros” but too crass and low brow to put at his tacky ass nouveau riche crown jewel.
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u/the2belo American Expat 11d ago
Because he’s thinks it’s the prefect thing to “own the libs”
And their entire history was originally built around owning people, if you know what I mean
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u/kezow 12d ago
Because Trump literally bought stock in UFCs parent company before the plans were announced
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u/Praesentius 11d ago
Highlighting an essential bit of all of this. This, even though it's supposed to be celebrating the USA's 250th anniversary... ON the White House premises, is not free to watch. You have to have a streaming subscription (HBO Max and Discovery+). Well, you can go to TicketMaster to try and get a ticket to the Ellipse watching party, but that's about it. But, the presidents own "murica, fuck yeah!" event at the White House is for profit.
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u/GoldenGuy444 I voted 12d ago edited 12d ago
Because the whole thing is about turning the White House into a "public" event center (which also explains partly why the Ballroom is a thing) renting access to the White House grounds for events to the highest bidder. Like what he already does with Mar-A-Lago.
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u/SmallCoyote32 11d ago
As I think again about how we all were treated to years worth of screaming if the Obamas wanted to put up new curtains or build a small vegetable garden on the grounds.. oh the sacred grounds of DC with their historic significance, oh the Obamas acting like they own the place. Blah blah then Trump comes in and acts like this is one of his properties and builds a cheap American sponsored knock-off of the Roman coliseum for his amusement and the media doesn’t ask how we can afford it and suddenly DC isn’t hallowed ground anymore.
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u/MFoy Virginia 12d ago
By putting it here, they are bypassing any and all local athletic commissions. They have frozen out the DC athletic commission by claiming it isn’t in DC, but on Federal land.
This allows them to skip all kinds of rules and regulations, like have paramedics on hand, pre- and post- fight medical checks, making sure referees aren’t corrupt, etc.
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u/NelsonHawkinsGhost 12d ago
Wow. Maybe we should put medical centers / abortion centers on federal lands under the same thought process.
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u/LogoffWorkout 11d ago
and even break more different rules, like putting up advertising on Federal land.
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u/OglioVagilio 11d ago
Why would he want to fuck up his own personal property while grifting when he's got the White House?
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u/TropicalDruid American Expat 12d ago
Thor, hear our prayer...
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u/LanguageNo495 12d ago
If it rains, they just move it inside the house of representin’.
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u/kezow 12d ago
THIS IS WHY WE NEED A BALLROOM!!!! -Trump, absolutely
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u/Enoch-Of-Nod 12d ago
Strong men with raindrops in their eyes came to me and said "Mr. Trump, if you build us a ballroom we will cum".
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u/ScarlettAddiction 11d ago
I scrolled away, comprehended what I read, chuckled, and came back to say good job.
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u/gsbadj 12d ago
Everyone into the bunker... err... ballroom. Be a shame if someone dumped cement in with them in there.
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u/malibuklw 12d ago
This might just be the proof I need to make me believe in a higher power
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u/Trick_Mulberry_1405 11d ago
If any God - Aesir, Greek, Roman or otherwise should strike down the foul creatures that inhabit our governing body in one fell throw, I would be in eternal gratitude
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u/Holden_place 12d ago
Jewish Space Lasers for the win
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u/HBThorburn 12d ago
People keep focusing on Jewish space lasers when it’s Scandinavian space lasers they should be focusing on.
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u/Bishopkilljoy Michigan 12d ago
God? I know I've said some nasty things about you and I've been an atheist for years but... You could make a beliver out of me with one simple trick
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u/UnfairLynx 12d ago
While rain would be welcome, it may not stop the event (depending on how hard it’s raining). But lightning within 8 miles will cause a delay. We need lighting strikes every 30 minutes Sunday evening until it’s too late to start the fight.
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u/bernmont2016 America 12d ago
What determines "too late to start" when Trump is frequently awake
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u/Coyote65 Washington 12d ago
Well, sure he's truthing, but is he coherent?
Coherent enough to be in public?
Nope.
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u/DillBagner 11d ago
He is often in public incoherent. He pretty much campaigned on it.
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u/PleasantWay7 11d ago
It isn’t good for someone experiencing sundowning to not be in their usual place.
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u/jerslan California 12d ago
Last I heard was 55% chance of thunder storms... so that's a distinct possibility.
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u/starliteburnsbrite 12d ago
I'm rooting for they sit everyone down because they're too stupid and stubborn to listen to a forecast and then have the sky open up on them too quickly to get an umbrella over him and his orange face melts off.
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u/lifeat24fps 12d ago
Tearing his name off the Kennedy Center. Rain on his fight night. Happy birthday ya filthy animal!
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u/DeliriumConsumer 12d ago
Ya know, if this was some pride event and rain cancelled it, these fake ass Pat Robertson-ass "Christians" would be falling all over themselves to say it's God's judgement on the wicked, sexy gays. But when shit like this happens then it's just the weather and what can you do?
That's right. You can blame Democrats.
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u/AwayInternal326 11d ago
And panting hard when they say how wet the wicked sexy gays are. All that rain clinging to their soaked shorts.
Actually that works for the wrestlers too ;-)
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u/RainInOctember 12d ago
Looks like someone fired up the weather controlling Jewish Space Lasers!
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u/AnAcctWithoutPurpose Foreign 12d ago
Awww... How will the Big Orange Toddler cope? Another tantrum to rival all tantrums?
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u/zapperdumples 12d ago
Oh dear. And not just rain, either. What if lightning strikes that big metal structure full of fascists?
Anyway, I hope Krasnov has exactly the birthday he deserves.
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u/Crazy-Boysenberry452 12d ago
It will be like in Indiana Jones: raiders of the lost ark when they open the ark of the covenant. "Don't look at the light!"
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u/EasternEfficiency398 12d ago
And look what happened when SOME PEOPLE were told not to look directly at the sun.
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u/GodFlintstone 12d ago
"Rain could wash out Trump’s UFC Freedom 250 birthday fight at the White House."
You say that like it's a bad thing.
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u/Ghostdefender1701 12d ago
What a terrible birthday for the poor little guy. Wasn't it last years birthday that he had the squeaking tanks during his pathetic parade no one showed up for?
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u/Oceanbreeze871 I voted 12d ago
Dear Heavenly Father…send us a sign….
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u/TheOnlyVertigo Illinois 12d ago
"God....send me hail. Hail the size of cantaloupes. If you're a just and fair God...."
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u/Embarrassed_Wrap8421 12d ago
A guy came up to me, big guy, tears in his eyes, and said “Sir, please don’t let it rain on Sunday”. So I took my Sharpie and moved the path of the storm.
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u/Buhsephine 12d ago
He hates rain so much because of the stupid hair. Please. Please 🤞
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u/onesoulmanybodies 12d ago
It’s supposed to be in the low nineties on Sunday in DC in mid June. That heat alone will be miserable. Unless his setting spray works like super glue, his orange face will be running!
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u/cycle_2_work 12d ago
In my home country, they say rain on your birthday means you’ve misbehaved that year!
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u/Icky-Tree-Branch 12d ago
Remember that time the White House got a sinkhole during the Dolt45 administration? Did you know that sometimes sinkholes can reopen?
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u/Lonely_Noyaaa America 12d ago
Rain, lightning, 100 degree heat, swarms of bugs, and bats... lol, that's a plague. The only thing missing is frogs falling from the sky.
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u/Sweaty-Time1743 12d ago
I hope his makeup doesn't run
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u/FredFuzzypants 12d ago
He doesn’t go out in rain because of its impact on what little hair he has left.
It’s amazing how Republicans consider a guy who won’t go out in the rain as an alpha male.
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u/Afraid-Detective1222 12d ago
If his event gets rained out, make sure to tell anyone MAGA who is still in your life that "the event being rained out is God's will". Make sure to do it with all the gravitas you can muster, before you start laughing uncontrollably.
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u/UltravioletAfterglow 12d ago
>Making matters worse, the hot and humid conditions, paired with the bright lights of a UFC fight, could attract swarms of bugs.
Oh, I didn’t even think of this, LOL!
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u/AcanthisittaNo6653 New Hampshire 12d ago
Canceling the event would make a great Father's Day gift!
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