Your White House fight club setup is wild, DMV
Here's what people need to understand— when you drive past the White House, you expect to see the usual: tourists taking pictures, maybe a protest or two, definitely a motorcade. You do *not* expect to see a massive, towering arc structure that looks like it's straight out of a sci-fi movie setting up shop on the South Lawn. But that's exactly what's happening right now, all for the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) Freedom 250 fight scheduled for June.
### This Is Not Normal
Seriously, it's hard to miss. This "Claw," as they're calling it, is dominating the skyline around Lafayette Square, right across from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. I’ve seen some things in this city, betam, but this takes the cake. A UFC fight? At the White House? It feels like something out of a bad action movie, not real life in Washington, D.C. Imagine trying to explain this to someone who’s never lived here, someone who thinks D.C. is just monuments and politicians in suits.
* The structure is huge, an arc that’s visible for blocks. * It's for a UFC event called "Freedom 250." * It's happening on the White House lawn, of all places.
This city has so much character, so much history, from the go-go beats echoing down U Street to the quiet reverence of the National Mall at dawn. To have this spectacle planted right in the heart of it, just steps from where decisions that affect the whole world are made, is... something else. It's a reminder that even in the most serious city, there’s always a little bit of the absurd. That's the District, DMV — no vote, all heart.
My folks on *The Morning Wire* are absolutely losing it about this — you need to hear their take, mornings.live.