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Analysts floored as Trump's birthday bash faces 'chaotic' risk: 'God has a sense of humor'
The White House Turned Weather Into an ExcuseThe SetupThe immediate story is simple: Trump’s South Lawn UFC event faced a real chance of delay or cancellation because of thunderstorms, heavy rain, wind, punishing humidity, insects, and a lightning rule that would freeze the event. That is the context. The political story is what the reporting brushes past: the White House chose to stage a vanity spectacle in the open air and then reacted like reality had committed a personal insult.Who Has PowerThe actor with actual institutional power here is not the Weather Channel, and not the fighters…
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