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Woeful Dems sing about fascism during Trump’s Freedom 250 counter program

Sky News Australia

June 16, 2026

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Newsweek Senior Editor-at-Large Josh Hammer discusses the left’s response to US President Donald Trump’s UFC Freedom 250 event. “An absolutely star-studded patriotic, red, white and blue event,” Mr Hammer told Sky News Digital Presenter Gabriella Power. “At his core, Donald Trump is a showman; this is a man who knows how to put on a show. “Compare that to the Democrats' counter-programming, where they were singing about fascism or whatever there.”

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