For weeks the propaganda press has been clutching their pearls about President Donald Trump’s decision to host a UFC event at the White House in celebration of America’s 250th birthday.
Yet the propaganda press didn’t seem nearly as concerned or interested about the White House just three years ago when Rose Montoya, a mentally ill man cosplaying as a woman, was invited to the White House by President Joe Biden during a Pride Month celebration. Montoya along with two others posed topless in a video at the White House.
It was perhaps the most embarrassing, disrespectful, and disgusting spectacles ever seen at the White House. Yet the same press now hyperventilating over the UFC fight couldn’t be bothered to condemn the topless incident.
MS Now (formerly known as MSNBC) published an article entitled: “Plaintiffs Call UFC 250 event a ‘volcano of corruption’ in bid to halt White House fights.” The piece was mostly just a vehicle for left-wing activists to air their opposition to the event, with the article amplifying claims that the UFC fight is basically a degradation of the White House.
Notably, MS Now (then MSNBC) had little (aka nothing) to say when topless trans-identifying males turned the White House into a weird sexcapade.
NBC News, MSNBC’s former sister network, did cover the Montoya incident. But rather than focus on the disgraceful actions, NBC News spent most of the article lamenting the backlash Montoya received.
“Many of Montoya’s critics misgendered her by referring to her with male pronouns and called her anti-trans slurs.” In fact, according to NBC: “The backlash over Montoya’s video takes place amid an increasingly hostile national climate for the LGBTQ community, particularly transgender people.”
The Chicago Sun Times‘s Scoop Jackson published an article: “Donald Trump, Dana White sending a clear message with UFC event at White House.” Jackson warned “Sports is being used as another tool to present a troubling theme” and that the UFC has “found much of its identification directly aligned and associated with a certain oligarchy of America and the politics of that group of people’s line of thinking.”
Notably absent from the paper’s archive is any coverage of Montoya’s stunt.
The New York Times joined the hyperventilating as well, with Shawn McCreesh writing in an article: “Presidential historians say there are no parallels from the past for what Mr. Trump has planned for Sunday.”
McCreesh wrote that the UFC “claw” “seems wildly out of touch” and included a poll from Reuters/Ipsos about how “just 16 percent of Americans said it was ‘appropriate’ for Mr. Trump to hold this fight … at the White House this weekend. It seems a provocative, P.T. Barnum-esque gambit for the president to be pulling at a time of high gas prices, low poll numbers and open war.”
A cursory search of The Times’ archives found no coverage on Montoya’s stunt despite there being “no parallels” to such an affront. There was no wider condemnation of Biden for inviting mentally ill activists to the White House despite “high gas prices, low poll numbers” and a wide open southern border.
The Guardian likewise found reason to oppose the UFC fight, with Sidney Blumenthal citing the Public Integrity Project, which said the event is not in “any material sense a ‘celebration of the 250th anniversary of American independence’…”
But a topless trans-identifying man at the White House?
Not worth The Guardian’s time.
If the propaganda press was truly concerned about the White House, its outrage would’ve started with a topless trans-identifying activist treating the White House as romper room.
Instead, their outrage was reserved for the only thing that matters to them: Trump.
Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Follow Brianna on X: @briannalyman2
