Posted on 07/05/2026 2:04:29 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
UFC President Dana White could not overlook the break in the weather that allowed UFC Freedom 250 at the White House to proceed as planned.
That Sunday, June 14, was uncertain as forecasts did not look promising.
This was an outdoor event where fighters could step onto a canvas that, if wet from rain, may have proven hazardous.
Moreover, if lightning struck near the event, it could have caused a 30-minute delay, with every subsequent strike furthering the time before resuming the action.
This would have been a disaster not only for White, but for President Donald Trump, much to the joy of leftists always yearning for his demise.
The Washington Examiner noted a Thursday comment by White that will air as part of a Fox Nation documentary about the event. “God, Mother Nature, whatever you want to call it, those clouds splitting and going around us — listen, I don’t know how to describe it, but it was pretty d*** awesome.”
White isn’t exactly outspoken as a believer, but looking at the forecast posted by MyRadar Weather to social media platform Facebook just hours before the fights, how else could you explain what happened?
The timeline showed storms and high winds around 8:30 p.m. After 9 p.m., a downpour and possible lightning were predicted. By 10 p.m., the storms were forecasted to move east, but the event would be in a tailspin at that point with so many delays.
Journalist and podcaster Caleb Parke wrote to Facebook days after the event to reflect on how it all turned out.
“Dana White says the storm appeared to split and move around the White House and the Ellipse. ‘The storm comes and splits at the White House and goes around the White House and the Ellipse,’ White said.”
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AMEN!!
Praise God from Whom all blessings flow.
Really dangerous to link good or bad events to God’s Will.
It is unprovable and looks bad when innocent people are killed or become sick.
Isaac Asimov wrote that Christian pastors in the US in the 1700s-1800s used to loudly preach that storms and fires were God’s punishment for the sins of people in the villages and towns.
Then because most churches had a metal cross on top, lightning was often attracted to them before any other secular buildings and houses, setting the churches on fire to burn down. By that logic, the pastors and religious congregations were punished for secret sins. They stopped preaching that topic.
In an oncoming predicted landfall of the large Hurricane Andrew in 1992, the Jewish leader Menachem Mendel Schneeerson (1902-1994) of the NYC headquartered Chabad group, gave an opinion to spread to all the believers in the path of the hurricane to disobey the US Weather Service advice to evacuate their area. He firmly said it was going to miss you there. The people stayed.
Oddly, when the hurricane struck it avoided the Chabad followers entirely and they were safe in their homes. The hurricane veered and hit a place near Miami. Other areas had severe destruction.
Things that really make you “Hmm....”
We live in miraculous times.
How many American Presidents have survived as many
serious ‘attempts’ as The Donald?
The answer is ‘None’!
What other President is known to work seven days a week, including on Sunday for the American People.
Probably ‘None’, tho I hear Nixon & FDR came close
Each new day is another Blessing.
just imagine what would happen if all of the churches walked toward repentance and faith, eliminating idolatries and pressing towards doctrinal purity.
Eh, Matthew 5:45 seems appropriate here “he makes his sun rise on both evil and good people, and he lets rain fall on the righteous and the unrighteous.”
“Praise HIM here all creatures below...’’
Are you suggesting He was indifferent to those little children swept away in the flood at that Gospel camp last summer but spared a UFC event because He likes Trump?
The Boss himself addresses this several times in the gospels. It’s shameful to even entertain the possibility.
Once is coincidence, TWICE is divine intervention.
I have always believed President Trump is a Godly president and that God's hand has placed Trump right where America AND THE WORLD needed him at a critical time. When one looks at all he has been through from A LAWFARE ONSLAUGHT to MULTIPLE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS, how can this NOT be divine intervention?
RE: ...on the righteous and the unrighteous...
Wish I could find the exact location in the talks and books of the late Stuart Wilde (Silent Power, others) where he quoted this:
“The same sun that shines through the window of the vicar’s study shines through the window of the whorehouse.”
WILD!
As if the failed assassination in Butler wasn’t ENOUGH proof that God is looking out for Donald Trump as President?
It’s called a heat dome, where the heat bouncing off the roads and sidewalks makes a high pressure barrier that storms can’t get around. Generally they actually suck because they keep the cooling effects from getting to the area. Once in a while you get an outdoor event that “benefits” from it. But it ain’t the hand of God, it’s very explicable weather.
“Now It Appears Storm Actually Did Split in Two Around White House”
“NOW it appears”? That very night if you watched the radar online, the storm headed for DC suddenly split in two, half going north and the other half going south, leaving DC clear.
I don’t know if it was God, but everyone was able to see it when it happened.
Moses split the red sea...trump split the DC Storm.
Science is no fun.
We prefer Divine Intervention. 🤡
God is trying to show us the way. He’s delegated a big piece of the necessary leadership to President Trump and his crew.
It rains on both the just and unjust.
But more on the just than the unjust fella.
Because the unjust has stolen the just’s umbrella.
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