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Raymond J. de Souza: White House cage match is emblematic of Trump presidency

It doesn't honour the founding fathers, but it does express the president's combative, vain character

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On June 14, President Donald Trump will mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence with a mixed martial arts cage fight on the South Lawn of the White House. It will be his 80th birthday, hence the chosen date.

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Trump, though very unlike his predecessors, is an extension of the boomer domination of the American presidency. The boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, had their first president in Bill Clinton, born August 1946. He was succeeded by the one-month-older George W. Bush, born July 1946. Trump, slightly older still, is the third two-term president born in 1946. Barack Obama was a younger boomer, born August 1961.

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The only non-boomer president in the last 33 years was Joe Biden. He is too old (!) to be a boomer, born in November 1942.

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