What the hell is that hideous thing on the White House South Lawn? (opens in new tab)

At first, when I saw these photos of curling scaffolding outside the White House, I thought construction was beginning on the Trump Arch. That assumption, however, shows my limited fluency in Donald Trump’s vanity projects. This is actually something else entirely: a tarantula-like stage being built for the president’s birthday cage fight extravaganza, called UFC […]