Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, Jared Leto and Adam Sandler are among the celebrities who declined invites to Trump’s UFC Freedom 250 event
Several A-list celebrities invited to Donald Trump’s UFC cage fight on the White House lawn later this month have no plans to show up, according to a new report, becoming the latest group to snub a presidential celebration of America’s 250th anniversary.
Comedian Adam Sandler, actor and former professional wrestler Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, actor and musician Jared Leto and television host Mario Lopez are among the names that UFC President and CEO Dana White told Time were invited to the event on Trump’s birthday, June 14. But representatives for the stars, and one person close to Johnson, told Vanity Fair that none of them plan to attend.
It’s the latest group of high-profile figures to decline an invite to a Trump-linked event in celebration of America’s 250th anniversary. Last month, the administration was dealt a blow when several musicians pulled out of performances at the Great American State Fair after learning the event was sponsored by Freedom 250, a Trump-affiliated group.
Dickey is the former singer for 90s ska band Mighty Mighty Bosstones and was Jimmy Kimmel’s band leader until he went full MAGA over Covid. His band kicked him out and the punk scene disowned him so he went and formed a new group with all the other aging “punks” who have decided Trumpism is the “real rebellion” and have been 86’d from their bands. It’s the saddest, sorriest bunch of middle aged losers that might have figured out the music and the fashion but never actually got the message.
Holy fuck. I loved Dickey and the MMB through high school and my 20s. I haven’t listened in forever, but damn…
It’s been disappointing to watch a lot of the bands I enjoyed in my youth age into boomer-minded “better back in my day”, “I speak my mind so fuck your feelings”, contrarians who are so stuck in trying to maintain their status they’ll hitch their wagon to MAGA then try to explain how they’re still trying to fight the system. It’s not just bands either. I have ditched a lot of my friends from that era who went from anarchist to libertarian once they bought houses, started families, and found careers. They’re the epitome of “I got mine so fuck you”, they’re not pro-Trump the person but like his policies so they’ll compromise their integrity to support him knowing full well what a POS he is while deluding themselves that they can have their cake and eat it too.
Noooooooooooo!