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'I'm literally flabbergasted': Rage as Trump deploys sacred Honor Guards at UFC event
Uniforms for the SpectacleThe real powerThe story is not that people online got offended. The story is that the state’s ceremonial machinery showed up as set dressing for a private fight promotion staged around Donald Trump’s birthday and his chosen political pageant at the Lincoln Memorial and White House grounds. The people with actual power here were the Trump operation, the Pentagon leadership that allowed military branding to be folded into the event, and the officials who decided that ceremonial service members could be deployed as visual props. That is the decision. The outrage is just…
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