<p>There’s identity politics. This, my friends and enemies, is the identity sports equivalent.</p><p>And the purpose and intent: To make sure mega and MAGA are never separated moving forward and forever when it comes to its arranged marriage to sports.</p><p>Like basketball to urban America, football to rural American, baseball to old America and Latino and Hispanic countries, hockey to Canada and Russia, UFC (and MMA overall, for the most part) have found much of its identification directly aligned and associated with a certain oligarchy of America and the politics of that group of people’s line of thinking.</p><p>And that group’s co-leader happens to sit in the Oval Office of the White House. So while using the country’s 250th birthday — along with coincidentally President Trump’s 80th birthday which coincidentally is on the scheduled day of the event — the UFC Freedom 250 that will take place on the White House South Lawn on June 14 will be much more than a celebration of sport and this country’s independence.