{"id":3551,"date":"2026-06-15T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/2026\/06\/15\/josh-hokit-says\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T13:54:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T13:54:00","slug":"josh-hokit-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/2026\/06\/15\/josh-hokit-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Hokit Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-557100\">\n<div>\n<p><span><span>Reading Time: <\/span> <span> 3<\/span> <span>minutes<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Obamas left the White House over a decade ago. And yet they persist, rent-free, in some people\u2019s minds.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday was Donald Trump\u2019s Freedom 250 celebration for his birthday.<\/p>\n<p>The bread-and-circuses event featured UFC fighting at its heart, with Trump in the front row.<\/p>\n<p>After a win, fighter Josh Hokit praised himself, Jesus, and trump. He then made a wild yet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2026\/02\/donald-trump-racist-post-barack-michelle-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">familiar<\/a> claim about former First Lady Michelle Obama.<\/p>\n<figure><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" alt=\"Joe Rogan interviews Josh Hokit inside the UFC \"cage\" on the white house lawn.\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0615_use_joshhokit_header.png\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"><figcaption>Joe Rogan interviews Josh Hokit inside the UFC \u201ccage\u201d on the White House lawn.<span> (Image Credit: Paramount+)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"h-am-i-right-america\">\u2018Am I right, America?\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>On Sunday, June 14, the UFC conducted a series of fights on the lawn of the White House, sponsored by the likes of Polymarket and Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Briefly overshadowing the demolished East Wing, a (hopefully) temporary UFC fighting arena was erected on the lawn.<\/p>\n<p>Branded as Freedom 250, it did not take place on or represent America\u2019s upcoming 250th anniversary. Instead, it took place on Donald Trump\u2019s birthday. He is now 80.<\/p>\n<p>The gauche display was, simply put, beyond parody. The <em>Idiocracy <\/em>parallels are difficult to ignore.<\/p>\n<p>However, one of the most contemptible moments of the night came courtesy of Josh Hokit, a UFC fighter with a penchant for inflammatory commentary.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p> <iframe title=\"Josh Hokit Octagon Interview | UFC Freedom 250\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-cookieconsent=\"statistics, marketing\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/D-jKOTpNdds?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen loading=\"lazy\"><\/iframe><div class=\"cookieconsent-optout-statistics cookieconsent-optout-marketing\">Please accept <a href=\"javascript:Cookiebot.renew()\">statistics, marketing<\/a> cookies to watch this video.<\/div> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cShout out to Trump,\u201d he began his post-fight interview with Joe Rogan, \u201cfor having the balls to put some s\u2013t like this on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hokit then praised his religion\u2019s central figure, Jesus, as \u201cmore incredible than the Incredible Hok.\u201d Here, he equates part of his surname to the Marvel hero, the Hulk.<\/p>\n<p>He then made a remark about fighter Alex Pereira\u2019s mother. It was sexual in nature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd lastly,\u201d he announced while grinning, \u201cMichelle Obama is a man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anticipating cheers, he asked: \u201cAm I right, America?\u201d The reaction sounded more like groans \u2014 even from a deeply Trump-friendly crowd.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" alt=\"Josh Hokit stands, post-victory, in the UFC \"cage\" on the white house lawn.\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0615_use_joshhokit_01-Cropped.png\" loading=\"lazy\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"><figcaption>Josh Hokit stands, post-victory, in the UFC \u201ccage\u201d on the White House lawn for Donald Trump\u2019s special day.<span> (Image Credit: Paramount+)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"h-what-was-the-point-of-this\">What was the point of this?<\/h2>\n<p>These days, people note that it is odd \u2014 if not unexpected \u2014 for Donald Trump to appear so fixated on President Joe Biden, who dropped out of the 2024 race and has been out of office for what feels like the longest 17 months in world history.<\/p>\n<p>Insulting President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama over a decade after they left the White House is <em>incredibly <\/em>strange.<\/p>\n<p>There is a fixation upon the Obama presidency by the American right. It was a time of social progress. The reactionary backlash to these positive changes \u2014 and to our first Black president \u2014 doomed us to over a decade of Trump.<\/p>\n<p>In the former First Lady, conservatives find an educated Black woman, one of their deepest fears.<\/p>\n<p>Bigots imagining her to be a transgender woman or as a secret man pulling some sort of The Birdcage act has been going on since long before any of us had heard the word <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehollywoodgossip.com\/2025\/08\/hailey-bieber-targeted-transvestigators\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">transvestigating<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" alt=\"Joe Rogan chats with Josh Hokit.\"   src=\"https:\/\/cdn.thehollywoodgossip.com\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0615_use_joshhokit_02-Cropped.png\" data-trellis-processed=\"1\"><figcaption>Joe Rogan chats with Josh Hokit in an example of clown-to-clown communication.<span> (Image Credit: Paramount+)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Whatever the goal or \u201creasoning\u201d behind it, claiming that Black women appear more masculine than white women has a historic role in racism.<\/p>\n<p>Most of our culture\u2019s beauty standards are strongly influenced by white European beauty standards, which are inherently political. These social constructs are used to reinforce both systemic and personal racism.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s really odd is that Hokit would have been, what, a high schooler when the Obamas left the White House? He would have been a tween at most when President Obama first took office.<\/p>\n<p>Cultural malice and this sort of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/11\/vice-signalling-how-hatred-poisoned-politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">vice signaling<\/a> don\u2019t have to make sense. It\u2019s arguably not supposed to.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the day, Hokit is announcing that he loves Donald Trump and hates whatever Michelle Obama represents to him. For the audience to whom he\u2019s speaking, that\u2019s more than enough.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Time: 3 minutes The Obamas left the White House over a decade ago. And yet they persist, rent-free, in some people\u2019s minds. Sunday was Donald Trump\u2019s Freedom 250 celebration for his birthday. The bread-and-circuses event featured UFC fighting at its heart, with Trump in the front row. After a win, fighter Josh Hokit praised himself, Jesus, and trump. He then made a wild yet familiar claim about former First Lady Michelle Obama. Joe Rogan interviews Josh Hokit inside the UFC \u201ccage\u201d on the White House lawn. (Image Credit: Paramount+) \u2018Am I right, America?\u2019 On Sunday, June 14, the UFC conducted a series of fights on the lawn of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,2021,28,31,43,32,876],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hollywood","category-josh-hokit","category-news","category-politics","category-sports","category-spotlight","category-ufc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}