Hunter Biden, the convicted felon who relocated overseas while drowning in unpaid legal bills, took to X this week to challenge Donald Trump Jr. to a cage match and lecture the country about the sanctity of the White House. The lengthy post, styled as an open letter to Joe Rogan, came nine days after the UFC Freedom 250 event drew massive crowds to the White House South Lawn on June 14.
The timing alone tells you something. Biden wasn't at the event. He wasn't in the country. But he had thoughts, and a social media account.
His post centered on the UFC card held on the South Lawn, co-hosted by Rogan and Daniel Cormier, with comedian Shane Gillis also taking part. Biden framed the event as an affront to the republic, comparing President Trump to a Roman emperor and the White House to the Colosseum. As Complex reported, Biden addressed Rogan directly, writing that he wished he could sit down face to face and explain "why so many of us were offended by the UFC fight on the South Lawn of the White House."
Biden's post escalated from there into a sprawling historical analogy. He wrote:
"The White House does not belong to Donald Trump. It does not belong to any President. It belongs to the people. To treat it as Caesar treated the Colosseum is antithetical to everything our founding fathers fought for. This is not Rome. Presidents are not emperors doling out bread and circuses for the peasants. The White House is the People's House. This 'celebration' could have happened in any stadium within a stone's throw of the South Lawn."
He closed with a postscript that renewed a challenge he first floated in April: a cage match with Donald Trump Jr. "Your call on the venue," Biden wrote. "Anywhere but the South Lawn."
The New York Post reported that Biden framed the UFC event as "an exhibition of imperial domination, not a celebration of our 250th anniversary as a democracy." That language, imperial domination, Caesar, bread and circuses, ran through the post like a thesis statement for a man who has spent the last year dodging creditors and court dates.
This was not Biden's first swing at the UFC event or his first cage match challenge. Earlier in June, he appeared on California Gov. Gavin Newsom's YouTube channel and offered a blunter take, using language unfit for print. He said the UFC had "ruined it" by staging the event on "the g**d*** South Lawn" during the nation's 250th anniversary. He added that he had nothing against Dana White personally but questioned how the event could be considered appropriate.
The original cage match proposal surfaced in April, when Biden appeared in a video shared by YouTuber Andrew Callaghan's Channel 5 channel. In that clip, Biden targeted both Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump. "I told him I'd do it, 100 percent in, if he can pull it off," Biden said. "And if he can't, I'm still coming."
Callaghan later said he believed Biden's proposal was a joke but that he would be "more than happy to facilitate" the match if the Trumps were "willing to engage Hunter in mutual combat."
Biden has been claiming poverty in court while simultaneously planning media appearances and floating combat challenges, a combination that raises obvious questions about priorities.
White House Communications Director Steven Cheung dismissed the challenge in a single line: "Hunter wouldn't even be able to pass a p**s test."
Neither Donald Trump Jr. nor Eric Trump has publicly responded to the renewed challenge. Joe Rogan, the man Biden addressed his open letter to, has not responded either, at least not in any public forum captured by the reporting.
Cheung's response, while brief, pointed to a reality that Biden's post conspicuously avoided. The man lecturing the nation about the dignity of the People's House is a convicted felon. He has a well-documented history of substance abuse. And as Breitbart noted, he is reportedly $17 million in debt and previously self-deported to South Africa.
Biden's post did contain a few concessions. He called the UFC "a bona fide American success story." He described Shane Gillis as "hilarious and brilliant." He said he liked watching the UFC. These asides read like an attempt to inoculate himself against the charge that he was simply attacking a popular event out of partisan spite.
But the core argument, that the South Lawn is sacred ground unfit for a sporting event, sits uneasily next to Biden's own record. This is a man whose father's administration was dogged by questions about Hunter's overseas business dealings, his tax liabilities, and his gun conviction. The Supreme Court unanimously struck down the federal gun ban used to prosecute him, but the underlying facts of his legal entanglements remain.
Now, from abroad, he positions himself as the conscience of the republic. He invokes the Founding Fathers. He calls the president a "temporary caretaker" and a "servant." He writes, in his closing flourish:
"The White House belongs to us. All of us. The person who sits behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office is nothing more than an honored guest. A temporary caretaker. The President is our servant. Not our Caesar."
Fine words. But Biden is not writing them from a position of civic authority. He is writing them from overseas, with a criminal record, with millions in unpaid obligations, while telling courts he cannot afford his own lawyers.
The UFC Freedom 250 event drew enormous public attention. It was held on the South Lawn on a Saturday. Joe Rogan and Daniel Cormier co-hosted. The crowd was enthusiastic. The event was, by any visible measure, popular.
That popularity is precisely what seems to bother Biden and the broader progressive apparatus. Newsom gave Biden a platform to air his grievances. Biden used X to amplify them further. The complaint is not really about the grass on the South Lawn. It is about the cultural signal: that the current administration can stage a massive, unapologetically American event on the most visible piece of real estate in the country, and millions of people love it.
Biden's Roman Empire metaphor is revealing in ways he may not have intended. The Romans he invokes did not fall because they held public spectacles. They fell for other reasons, corruption, fiscal recklessness, a ruling class that exempted itself from the rules it imposed on everyone else.
If Hunter Biden wants to talk about who is treating public institutions as personal property, he might start closer to home.
