Jemele Hill says UFC event at the White House was 'performative patriotism' that lacked 'diversity'

TMZ conducted an interview with Hill, who naturally claimed the UFC event did not represent "the best of America.""If this is supposed to represent the best of America, what about this represented the best of America?" she said.While giving some acknowledgment that it's "great to celebrate" veterans, which the event did, she claimed that the proudly patriotic pageantry and demonstrations celebrating America's 250th anniversary was "gaudy" and "narcissistic." And that, to her, it was more of a "Trump rally" than celebration for the country.VARIETY BLASTS DONALD TRUMP FOR HOSTING UFC 250 FREEDOM EVENT AT THE WHITE HOUSE: 'IDIOCRACY'"But when you consider the context of what this is supposed to mean, everything about this felt gaudy, it felt narcissistic, it was like Temu WrestleMania to me," she said."And I don't know if that's the correct representation for America, and especially this sport in particular.
Because look out in the crowd, did you see a lot of diversity in the crowd? This felt like a Trump rally.This didn't feel like a rally or celebration for America, something to bring everybody in."By now, everyone knows Hill's M.O.; any event hosted by Trump or a Republican is bad, any event hosted by a Democrat is good.
The supposed lack of "diversity" in the crowd is not the "correct representation of America." Yet the lack of diversity in the modern NBA is something to be celebrated.TMZ's Harvey Levin pointed out that UFC is wildly popular with fans of all backgrounds, races, and ethnicities, to which Hill responded by saying it was "performative patriotism" that overshadowed people being "worried about gas prices."UFC SAYS IT WON’T PROFIT FROM WHITE HOUSE EVENT THAT COULD COST 'UPWARDS OF $60M'"And maybe some of this was also timing as well, because we're at a point now where people are worried about gas prices, they're worried about food, they're worried about basically surviving the day," she said."And you have this ostentatious event of fighter jets and ...