Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson, Jared Leto and Adam Sandler are among the celebrities who declined invites to Trump’s UFC Freedom 250 event
Several A-list celebrities invited to Donald Trump’s UFC cage fight on the White House lawn later this month have no plans to show up, according to a new report, becoming the latest group to snub a presidential celebration of America’s 250th anniversary.
Comedian Adam Sandler, actor and former professional wrestler Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, actor and musician Jared Leto and television host Mario Lopez are among the names that UFC President and CEO Dana White told Time were invited to the event on Trump’s birthday, June 14. But representatives for the stars, and one person close to Johnson, told Vanity Fair that none of them plan to attend.
It’s the latest group of high-profile figures to decline an invite to a Trump-linked event in celebration of America’s 250th anniversary. Last month, the administration was dealt a blow when several musicians pulled out of performances at the Great American State Fair after learning the event was sponsored by Freedom 250, a Trump-affiliated group.
He could offer himself and his cabinet members as contestants. A lot of people would pay for the chance to beat the shit out if him…
I’d fight Hegseth. A solid liver punch and he’d crumple like the sloppy piece of shit he is.
Y’know… you’re typically supposed to send out the invites before you put out the balloons.
I bet it ends up just being kid rock and some country star.
kid rock is invited finally?
Kevin Sorbo, Dean Cain, Chris Pratt, Dennis Quaid, James Woods, Woody Allen, Gina Carano, Dickey Barrett, the MyPillow Guy, Shamwow Guy, Gwen Stafani, and a half dozen country music artists who all look and sound vaguely the same are hoping theirs are in the mail.
For a minute I got Woody Allen and Woody Harrelson mixed up and was pretty disappointed.
I knew of everyone on here except I don’t recognize Dickey, and wasn’t aware of issues with Shamwow Vince (his history makes it not surprising), and didn’t know Gwen is also B-a-n-a-n-a-s.
Dickey is the former singer for 90s ska band Mighty Mighty Bosstones and was Jimmy Kimmel’s band leader until he went full MAGA over Covid. His band kicked him out and the punk scene disowned him so he went and formed a new group with all the other aging “punks” who have decided Trumpism is the “real rebellion” and have been 86’d from their bands. It’s the saddest, sorriest bunch of middle aged losers that might have figured out the music and the fashion but never actually got the message.
That makes me sad…I like the bosstones
Holy fuck. I loved Dickey and the MMB through high school and my 20s. I haven’t listened in forever, but damn…
It’s been disappointing to watch a lot of the bands I enjoyed in my youth age into boomer-minded “better back in my day”, “I speak my mind so fuck your feelings”, contrarians who are so stuck in trying to maintain their status they’ll hitch their wagon to MAGA then try to explain how they’re still trying to fight the system. It’s not just bands either. I have ditched a lot of my friends from that era who went from anarchist to libertarian once they bought houses, started families, and found careers. They’re the epitome of “I got mine so fuck you”, they’re not pro-Trump the person but like his policies so they’ll compromise their integrity to support him knowing full well what a POS he is while deluding themselves that they can have their cake and eat it too.
Noooooooooooo!
Can’t even get Leto or Mario Lopez. King Mierdas.
Which proves that we need the golden ballroom.
No one wants to come to these events because of the terrorist threat.
Checkmate!
[no sarcasm intended, because you know it’ll be a talking point by Wednesday]
Not even Jared Leto wants to show up 😂
It’s safe to assume anyone that does show up who is not being paid to be there is probably a pedophile.
Not to say he’s still active but Leto has a history of diddling kids.
Maybe sKid Rock or Russian Segal can join
Maybe he can land Shia LaBuff.
Hollywood superstar Shia Lebeouf?
Quiet, Quiet~
Mans said he’s not morbing anywhere near this shit show
Jared Leto is an A lister?
How else is Jared out of jail while known to be running a sex cult with underage girls and keeps getting cast in big films.
Suicide squad, justice league, Morbius, Blade runner 2049, etc.
Hasn’t been in anything too successful in a while but you know who he is. Same for the Dwayne and Adam. Tbf I’m not much of a film guy but like what have any of them even been in recently?
Holy shit…
I never connect to the dots between Jared’s sex cult and the mysterious reasons why he why he keeps being cast in films.
My favorite Jared Leto bit is when he gets shit kicked in Fight Club.
Exactly! Fuck Jared Leto, loser hack.
anyone who cares about their reputation and career will stay far away from the liar-in-chief and his ‘events’
Even if you had no scruples, who’s gonna perform for a Guest of Honor who’s going to fall asleep during the match anyway?
and television host Mario Lopez
Wait, is Mario Lopez a “celebrity” UFC fan or something? I can’t for the life of me understand why A.C. Slater is even being mentioned in this article. I heard him doing one of those shitty commercials that get injected into podcasts a couple of weeks ago, and it’s literally the first time I’ve thought of the guy in 15+ years.
He’s right-wing, or at least acts like it.
Any D list celebrity that is openly right wing will show up all.ovwe the place, because there’s nothing better.
he’s stayed ‘busy’ since his sbtb days, just not in anything really all that noteworthy.
He’s still in the Zeitgeist but he just hosts shows like dancing with the stars I think.
Pretty sure he hosted entertainment tonight for many years.
eta: Nope, it was Extra and Access Hollywood. Same idea though.
Ah, that explains it, thanks! I don’t watch those kinds of shows so I guess he’s just been successful in one of my entertainment blindspots.
I’m not surprised this event is actually happening, but it’s so hard to tell what’s satire these days. It sounded too stupid to be true.
