{"id":66704,"date":"2026-06-16T14:24:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T14:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/sheryl-crow-blasts-donald-trumps-ufc-birthday-bash\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T14:24:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T14:24:34","slug":"sheryl-crow-blasts-donald-trumps-ufc-birthday-bash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/sheryl-crow-blasts-donald-trumps-ufc-birthday-bash\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheryl Crow Blasts Donald Trump&#8217;s UFC Birthday Bash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/sheryl-crow\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sheryl-crow\" data-tag=\"sheryl-crow\">Sheryl Crow<\/a> excoriated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/donald-trump\/\" id=\"auto-tag_donald-trump\" data-tag=\"donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s White House birthday bash, which included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/white-house-ufc-fight-donald-trump-american-dream-1235577863\/\">a UFC fight<\/a>, in a post to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stories\/sherylcrow\/\">her Instagram story<\/a> on Monday. \u201cWhat happened last night on the lawn of the White House was disgraceful and void of decency,\u201d she wrote. \u201cPowerful, rich people filled the lawn to watch a violent sport that ended with a vile and racist comment. All while the average American cannot afford healthcare, gas, and cost of living.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe artist wrote that keeping silent on this kind of behavior is akin to turning a blind eye to immoral behavior. \u201cDo not be fooled,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThis administration is corrupt and does not give a damn about the American people. It only cares about making money hand over fist at the expense and in spite of our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cIf we continue to support this kind of distraction from reality, we are no better than them,\u201d she continued. \u201cLet\u2019s be better, America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe mixed martial arts fight took place on Sunday, Trump\u2019s 80th birthday, and was billed as UFC Freedom 250, ostensibly part of the president\u2019s celebrations of the United States\u2019 250th birthday. The main event was a match between Justin Gaethje and Ilia Topuria, though several matches of varying weight classes led up to that one. The tone of the event, though, felt bigoted. Josh Hokit, a heavyweight, used his post-interview time to say, \u201cMichelle Obama is a man.\u201d Host Joe Rogan simply smiled when he said it, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WAzj231xfTI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">video shows<\/a>.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<em>Rolling Stone <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/white-house-ufc-fight-donald-trump-american-dream-1235577863\/\">reported on the spectacle<\/a> and its effect on Washington, D.C., calling it Trump\u2019s all-American dream. \u201c[UFC CEO and president Dana White and the UFC] use the beautiful catharsis and humility of organized violence to show you a world where dreams do come true,\u201d reporter Jack Crosbie wrote. \u201cTo get there, all you have to do is sign up for Paramount+. All you have to do is invest in crypto, drive a Dodge truck, drink a Bud Light, vote for Donald Trump. The people who believe this, who drive for hours to watch fights on a giant TV in a sweltering public park, aren\u2019t stupid. As a whole, they\u2019re not all tacky or crude. They\u2019re just American, living in a country that promises so much and delivers so little.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tCrow has long been outspoken in her disdain for Trump and his cronies. Her 2025 song <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/sheryl-crow-the-lowdown-the-new-normal-1235388912\/\">\u201cThe New Normal\u201d<\/a> describes America as a dystopia, and she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/sheryl-crow-tesla-elon-musk-doge-trump-1235268865\/\">got rid of her Tesla<\/a> after Elon Musk was appointed head of the Department of Government Efficiency. In 2017, she told <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/the-last-word-sheryl-crow-on-keith-richards-motherhood-trump-fears-126578\/\">Rolling Stone<\/a> <\/em>she\u2019d written the song, \u201cHeartbeat Away,\u201d as a reaction to the way Trump was campaigning. \u201cI wrote that song before Trump got the nomination \u2013 it already felt apocalyptic that people were entertaining the idea of making a man like that the most powerful person in the world,\u201d she said. \u201cI had to go into deep meditation and find a way to have compassion for the people of this country that are hurting and believe he cares about them.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/sheryl-crow-donald-trump-ufc-birthday-1235578493\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sheryl Crow excoriated Donald Trump\u2018s White House birthday bash, which included a UFC fight, in a post to her Instagram story on Monday. \u201cWhat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":66705,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}