MS Now's Jonathan Capehart and columnist David Brooks mocked President Donald Trump's plan to host a UFC fight on the White House South Lawn, telling "PBS NewsHour" on Friday that the Sunday event was "degrading" and contrasted with the artists former President John F.Kennedy once brought into the executive mansion.Asked by PBS co-anchor Geoff Bennett what he made of the White House event, Brooks cited Kennedy's guest list before landing on the comparison to mixed martial arts."Well, I first thought of, like, who are the artists John F.
Kennedy brought to the White House? It was like W.H.Auden, Robert Frost, Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein.
And now we have got cage fighting.Don't anybody say America's in cultural decline," Brooks said.David Brooks criticized President Donald Trump’s planned UFC fight at the White House, comparing it with the artists invited during John F.
Kennedy’s presidency.(Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)DANA WHITE DENIES AMERICA 250 UFC FIGHT AT WHITE HOUSE WILL BE 'POLITICAL,' 'NOT AT ALL' ABOUT POLITICSCapehart said the event carried added meaning because it was not simply a private sports production but one being elevated by the president at the White House."Well, it's a significant shift because it's the president of the United States who's anointing it," Capehart said.Bennett framed the discussion around what he called Trump's "alternative cultural establishment" of combat sports, podcasts, influencers and social media personalities, while noting the South Lawn structure known as "The Claw.""Whenever a president invites someone from the culture into the White House, it's giving the imprimatur of the president," Capehart said.
"President Obama brought in Lin-Manuel to do what then became 'Hamilton.'"Jonathan Capehart said the planned cage fight on the White House South Lawn was "degrading the people’s house." (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)COUNTRY STAR ZAC BROWN DEFENDS UFC WHITE HOUSE PERFORMANCE SAYING 'F--- ALL THE DIVISION'Capehart...