The Bad Tenant Who Won’t Leave
WHITE HOUSE · PRESIDENTIAL ADMINISTRATION · GOVERNMENT PROPERTY
May 28, 2026
The bad tenant has put a cage on the lawn.
Not a metaphorical cage. An actual one. According to the
Associated Press, a temporary prize-fighting arena is being built
on the South Lawn of the White House for America’s 250th
anniversary and Donald Trump’s 80th birthday. Trump has called it
“a 5,000-seat arena right outside the front door of the White
House.” The setting is expected to include patriotic staging,
large screens, and an eight-sided fighting cage with the People’s
House behind it.¹
It already has a nickname. Dana White, the fight promoter and
Trump ally, called the South Lawn venue “The Claw.”²
That may be the most honest name attached to the project. The
South Lawn, where Marine One lands and foreign leaders are
received, has become the kind of place a promoter brands before
the first bell rings.
It is temporary. That is the defense.
But temporary things can reveal permanent assumptions. A tent…
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The Bad Tenant Who Won’t Leave

White House · Presidential Administration · Government Property
May 28, 2026

A temporary UFC fighting cage on the White House South Lawn highlights broader concerns over Donald Trump’s extensive, personalized alterations to the historic presidential.

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The Adult in the AI Room
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE · ETHICS
May 27, 2026
Pope Leo XIV’s 2026 encyclical
warns that artificial
intelligence demands human
judgment, responsibility, and
regulation to prevent
abdication of accountability
across society.
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The Adult in the AI Room

Artificial Intelligence · Ethics · Education Policy
May 27, 2026

Pope Leo XIV’s 2026 encyclical warns that artificial intelligence demands human judgment, responsibility, and regulation to prevent abdication of accountability across society.

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