Donald Trump’s Birthday Plans Have Made Washington D.C. Hideous And Depressing

I went by the White House a few times in the last couple weeks to check out the UFC cage and other projects in the neighborhood related to Donald Trump's debacle of a sestercentennial celebration, called Freedom 250, and his “Safe and Beautiful Initiative,” a relentless plan that will alter and shittify D.C. physically and otherwise permanently and for no reason more obvious than “Because he can.” Yeah, Trump’s beautifying the Nation's Capital the way Sherman beautified Atlanta. I hadn’t been to the city’s sightseeing epicenter in months before the latest binge of field trips, which were inspired by photos circulating of garish staging for the June 14 MMA event/Trump birthday party towering over the White House grounds. It's so much worse in person. Trump and UFC are claiming 3,000 invitees will pay as much as 1.5 million to be on the South Lawn on Trump’s birthday to see the fights in person. The latest buzz, however, is that non-political celebs would rather rearrange their sock drawers than attend Trump's shindig. The promoter claims another 85,000 fans will show up to the Ellipse, a formerly beautiful green space between the White House and the National Mall, to watch on big screen televisions. (There’s no way in hell that many folks will go to a UFC watch party.)