Others hope for a comfortable wing chair for their 80th birthday. But Donald Trump wanted nothing more than to watch half-naked muscle men fighting each other bloody in an octagonal cage with 4,300 close friends in the garden of the White House. He received a lot of criticism for desecrating the official residence with the spectacle and was told that the stage setup looked grandiose and tasteless at the same time. And anyway: Doesn’t “the claw” – the almost 30 meter high four-legged arch above the fighting arena – look like one of those fairground fraud machines where the longed-for prize always falls out of the grasping arms at the last second? What a symbolism for life in the USA, Trump’s opponents whispered.
