{"id":510729,"date":"2026-06-21T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T07:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/510729\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T07:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T07:00:18","slug":"daily-shows-jordan-klepper-interviews-people-at-trumps-ufc-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/510729\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Daily Show&#8217;s Jordan Klepper interviews people at Trump&#8217;s UFC birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Why are you here?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Freedom. And beer. My future ex-wife, hopefully.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you for your honesty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/the-daily-show\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daily Show<\/a> host Jordan Klepper&#8217;s conversations with attendees at <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/entertainment\/jimmy-kimmel-trump-ufc-white-house-event\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Donald Trump&#8217;s Freedom 250 UFC fight<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/entertainment\/jon-stewart-trump-ufc-white-house-event\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">birthday party at the White House<\/a> bring a cornucopia of responses.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the correspondent headed to the president&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/entertainment\/seth-meyers-trump-ufc-white-house-birthday-party\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">$60 million celebrations<\/a> to chat to some of the estimated 80,000 people either invited to the event on the South Lawn or headed to a fan zone nearby.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the American Dream,&#8221; says one attendee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the American Dream?&#8221; responds Klepper. &#8220;Two sweaty guys fighting on the White House lawn?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Want more of the best of late night? Sign up for Mashable&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mashable.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" data-ga-click=\"1\" data-ga-label=\"$text\" data-ga-item=\"text-link\" data-ga-module=\"content_body\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Top Stories newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Why are you here?&#8221; &#8220;Freedom. And beer. My future ex-wife, hopefully.&#8221; &#8220;Thank you for your honesty.&#8221; Daily Show&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-510729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}