Reporter says Trump looked like a 'conquering Republican Caesar' at UFC fight: 'Like ancient Rome'

President-elect Donald Trump looked similar a "conquering Republican Caesar" astatine the UFC event successful New York City connected Saturday, a newsman said connected CNN.

Trump, making his archetypal UFC quality since beating Vice President Kamala Harris, walked into the Madison Square Garden lawsuit to cheers and chants of "USA, USA." 

He was flanked by an entourage that included UFC President Dana White and Kid Rock, on with respective radical that volition unit his administration, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Tulsi Gabbard. He was besides joined by Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump.

A sheet connected CNN analyzed the country connected Sunday, with The Bulwark newsman Marc Caputo saying Trump looked similar a "conquering Republican Caesar."

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A newsman connected CNN said President-elect Donald Trump appeared similar "Republican Caesar" successful "Ancient Rome" astatine the UFC combat successful Madison Square Garden connected Saturday. (Getty Images/Universal via Getty)

"It truly looks similar past Rome here," Caputo said. "This is benignant of the conquering Republican Caesar who’s going into The Colosseum and everyone‘s cheering, and he‘s got his governmental gladiators with him," Caputo said. "That quality isn‘t conscionable astir him enjoying the applause. He‘s sending a connection to the Senate. Like, not only, ‘are you entertained?’ But, ‘these are my people, and are you consenting to fight? Because here‘s who I have.'"

Caputo besides shared these thoughts on X, writing, "Like a Republican Caesar, Donald Trump appeared astatine the UFC with governmental allies —as thousands cheered— to nonstop a gladiatorial connection to the GOP-led Senate astir his popularity with their base."

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Joe Rogan, President-elect Donald Trump, Kid Rock and Elon Musk airs for a photograph during the UFC 309 lawsuit astatine Madison Square Garden connected November 16, 2024, successful New York City. (Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC)

Other CNN panelists argued Trump seemed to beryllium sending a defiant connection to leaders successful his enactment with his caller furniture picks.

"He's truly trying to say, I think, ‘I situation you to cull these people. I situation you to importune connected a fuller vet than I’m consenting to provide,'" New York Times legislature exertion Julie Hirschfeld Davis said.

"He‘s flooded the portion with these picks and forced Republicans to choose," New York Times newsman Astead Herndon added. "And I deliberation it‘s absorbing to maine that helium brought Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr. to the UFC lawsuit past night. He is frankly giving, I think, support-based support structure. He’s made these folks stars implicit the people of this campaign."

"This is besides conscionable a idiosyncratic who won [by] pursuing done connected run promises. He promised retribution. He promised vengeance. And helium promised these kinds of figures having salient places successful this administration, and he‘s delivering it. And for a batch of those supporters, that is the constituent of the Trump vote," Herndon continued.

President-elect Trump was flanked by furniture picks and elected officials during his quality cageside astatine the UFC pay-per-view paper successful New York City connected Saturday night. (Getty Images)

"And truthful I don’t deliberation that’s the fullness of the electorate we saw connected Tuesday. I deliberation for a batch of people, they backed Trump astir apt arsenic a rejection of the medication and weren‘t reasoning of this arsenic an endorsement of each azygous happening he’s talked about. But for the hardcore base, the folks helium listens to the most, they voted for Trump for the purposes of RFK Jr. riling up Big Pharma, right? And truthful what they are going to unit those Republican senators to bash is marque a prime connected those calls, and they volition beryllium doing truthful with the backing of the electorate. I don’t deliberation we tin conscionable accidental that they won’t get through. I volition judge it erstwhile I spot it," the newsman concluded.

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Fox News' Scott Thompson and Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report.