PBS News Hour host Geoff Bennett, The Atlantic staff writer David Brooks, and MS NOW host Jonathan Capehart concluded their weekly Friday night news recap by looking ahead to Sunday’s UFC fight at the White House, which, according to them, signifies America’s “cultural decline” and is “unconscionable.”
Brooks was up first and he mourned Donald Trump is no Jack Kennedy, “Well, I first thought of, like, who are the artists John F. Kennedy brought to the White House? It was like W.H. Auden, Robert Frost, Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein. And now we have got cage fighting. Don’t anybody say America’s in cultural decline.”
David Brooks reacts to the upcoming UFC fight at the White House, “I first thought of, like, who are the artists John F. Kennedy brought to the White House? It was like W.H. Auden, Robert Frost, Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein. And now we have got cage fighting. Don’t anybody… pic.twitter.com/b5ThMTh6ml
— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) June 13, 2026
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