Donald Trump presents an AI-generated image of the cage that will house the UFC Freedom 250 event on May 6, 2026, at the White House. The cage and surrounding structures have since been built.
Kent Nishimura/AFP
It’s showtime! …Erecting a mixed martials arts arena at the White House and hinting that it might just become a permanent fixture is a nod to power that draws on force and spectacle.
On March 30 1981, the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan (pictured here surrounded by a crowd of people after being shot in the lung) had already been captured by TV cameras, just a few metres from the spot where, 45 years later, Cole Tomas Allen attempted allegedly to kill Donald Trump.
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Florian Leniaud, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) – Université Paris-Saclay
Forty-five years apart, two assassination attempts on American Presidents rather uncannily happened at the very same location. This case of history repeating itself offers much food for thought.
This official photograph shows US President Donald Trump supervising the steps of the Epic Fury crusade against Iran, from Mar-a-Lago, Florida. The well-orchestrated image depicts a “man of action” (pictured without a tie with two phones in front of him via which he sends his orders), and the sole decision-maker, as if illuminated by an inner force that attests that Providence guided his election.
Daniel Torok/The White House/AFP
Donald Trump’s communication style, especially since the start of the US military campaign against Iran has revived several old myths that are engrained in the American psyche.
Docteur en civilisation américaine. Membre associé au Centre d’histoire culturelle des sociétés contemporaines, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) – Université Paris-Saclay
