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Trump ridiculed after UFC announcer mistakes Melania for Ivanka: 'Birthday wish came true'
The Real Error Wasn’t the NameThe spectacle was the pointThe source story centers on a broadcast mistake: an announcer at Donald Trump’s White House UFC event called Melania Trump “First Lady Ivanka.” That is the kind of slip that travels fast because it is ridiculous. But the larger fact is not the gaffe. It is that the White House was being used as a birthday-stage cage-fighting venue, folded into a national 250th-anniversary celebration and timed to Trump’s 80th birthday.That is not normal governance with an embarrassing audio glitch attached. It is personalization of state power.Who…
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