Critics of President Donald Trump’s announcement of a planned Ultimate Fighting Championship event on White House grounds to celebrate the United States Semiquincentennial next year took to social media Friday to call the proposal something “straight out of ‘Idiocracy’” — the comedy cult classic about a dumbed-down 26th-century America — and condemn what one detractor called “authoritarian theater.
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