Secretary of State Marco Rubio made a bizarre analogy comparing the UFC to the United States putting a man on the moon in an effort to defend Trump’s defiling the White House grounds by hosting a UFC fight on his 80th birthday.
Rubio claimed that the UFC or the mixed martial arts industry is as revolutionary as the NASA Space program was in 1969.
RUBIO: I have a couple of reasons why I think it’s very powerful.
Here’s the first. The first is America, and the ideal behind America is the impossible.
That someone tells you, you can’t do that, or that’s never going to happen. The whole idea of America is audacious.
The very idea that America, that you could have a country founded on the principle that your rights come not from your government or from your leaders, your rights come from your creator, was an audacious idea.
No one else believed that at the world at that time. And that’s the foundation. But then, beyond that, everything we’ve done since then as a nation, time and again, how can you achieve some of the things?
You know, we’re going to put a man on the moon. When President Kennedy announced that we were going to put a man on the moon and return him safely to the earth, no one thought that was possible, and we did it.
We are a nation founded on doing what no one else dared to do and no one else aspired to do.
And at some level, that’s what this whole company, what UFC, has been.
Please don’t vomit on your monitors, smartphones, or tablets.