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Jordan Klepper Confronts MAGA UFC Fans With Trump’s Failing Body

The Daily Beast

June 18, 2026

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Jordan Klepper Confronts MAGA UFC Fans With Trump’s Failing Body

YouTube/The Daily ShowJordan Klepper found a new way to humiliate MAGA fans, this time confronting those attending Donald Trump’s birthday UFC match with images of the president’s ailing body. The Daily Show anchor ventured to Washington, D.C., where loyal Trump supporters and UFC enthusiasts insisted that the Freedom 250 celebration was the epitome of the “American dream.”Klepper described the event as the “American fever dream” instead, mocking MAGA with a side-by-side comparison of an unfit Trump, 80, with a healthy Barack Obama, 64.Read more at The Daily Beast.

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