Trump Has Journalists Beaten Up and Calls It Beautiful: The Far-Right Connections Behind the Violent Video

A question is the quietest form of power. It has no fists, just a sentence waiting for an answer.

Dana White stands at the podium in the White House press briefing room. American flags hang behind him, and cage fighters stand beside him with their arms crossed. In front of him, journalists sit and ask questions. Moments later, people are lying on the floor, fists are pounding reporters. The president's official residence becomes the setting for a beating. All of this happens in a 62-second animated video that Donald Trump posted on his official Truth Social account, the channel through which the president of the United States speaks to his country. The characters are artificially generated. The violence is fictional. The man who sent it out runs the United States. The filthy idea of beating up journalists for asking uncomfortable questions has now become a message from the presidency itself.

This president's moral abyss has long since become bottomless. The fact that he now openly celebrates his own moral depravity speaks for itself.

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On Saturday, Trump had already announced that he had offered Dana White, the head of the UFC fighting organization, the job of White House press secretary. He praised him as a "violent Fighter and Warrior." White was supposed to bring six well-known cage fighters with him. Islam Makhachev and Khabib Nurmagomedov were on the list. So were Justin Gaethje and Daniel Cormier. Amanda Nunes and Kayla Harrison rounded out the team, although Trump himself misspelled some of their names. "We need these people to defend us against the Lunatic Left," the president declared. So, a press secretary whose qualifications apparently come down to his ties to professional cage fighting. The presidency has had more dignified ideas about public communication. From now on, questions will presumably be answered according to weight class.

The video takes that idea to its logical conclusion. The AI-generated version of White announces that Trump has made him press secretary and that he has brought backup. A journalist asks whether Trump is a threat to democracy. Then the farce begins. Asked about Trump's pronouns, the answer is "Women." A reporter says he doesn't feel safe. One by one, the animated fighters take over the room. When someone asks about Michelle Obama possibly running for president in 2028, one character claims she is a man. A long-debunked lie becomes a joke in front of the president's podium. The video has a fine sense of humor, apparently, but only when it comes to humiliating the people asking the questions.

Along the way, journalists get punched. One goes flying across the room, another ends up on the floor. Later, several figures are lying between the rows of chairs, while the presidential seal still hangs at the front, as unmoved as a stained-glass church window overlooking a barroom brawl. One character shouts that this is fascism. The animated world responds with more violence. At the end, someone asks how the press conference went. "Fiery, but mostly peaceful," comes the reply. The phrase comes from the controversy over media coverage of protests, and now it's being used to mock reporters who have been beaten up. The final word is "Beautiful." Rarely has a president put his understanding of freedom of the press on display in such a grotesque sequence of images.

Trump posted this video on his official account. That alone is enough. What appears there speaks with the voice of the presidency. A president has plenty of ways to criticize the press. He can dispute claims and challenge journalists. Trump reaches for his fists, animated fists, admittedly, but deliberately placed in the public window of the presidency. The press's right to ask questions is literally answered with punches, and the most powerful man in the world distributes the images. The point where political satire ends and the contempt on display begins is marked by an animated body lying on the carpet.

The video comes at a tense moment. After losing the midterm elections, Republicans have to give up both chambers of Congress. The White House is looking for a new press secretary. Karoline Leavitt is gone, and her successor, Katie Zacharia, lasted just five days in the job. An American news network reported, citing a person familiar with the matter, that White had turned down Trump's offer. White himself initially did not confirm that. Instead, he shared an AI-generated image of himself at the White House podium and announced that he would meet with Trump on Monday. The staffing question remains unresolved. The president's fantasy of violence is already circulating everywhere.

Behind the animated video shared by Donald Trump, in which journalists are beaten up inside the White House, is a producer known as "Dr. Clown, PhD," whose account has around 369,000 followers. His publicly listed sponsor is Rainbet, an international cryptocurrency casino with opaque ownership. The operator was previously identified as RBGAMING N.V., a company registered in Curaçao, while more recent terms and conditions identify Rain Group Ltd, based on the Comoros island of Anjouan. John Evans is named as the company's CEO and co-founder, although his actual professional background has yet to be independently established. At a boxing event, Adin Ross publicly introduced the Rainbet founder for the first time.

Ross and Evans at a boxing event in March 2026, where Ross publicly introduced the Rainbet founder for the first time.

The professional background of Chief Operating Officer Guilherme Fideles also raises questions: He previously worked for several gambling platforms that have since shut down, including MMO GAMES LP, MaisBet-BoglaGold, and Tokenbets. Rainbet also pays Adin Ross, one of the best-known figures in Trump's MAGA circle. Ross supported Trump during his presidential campaign, hosted him for a joint livestream, and gave him a Tesla Cybertruck covered in Trump images, along with a Rolex. He has direct access to the president. Ross also maintains ties to far-right extremist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, as well as Andrew Tate.

Rainbet's own terms and conditions are particularly revealing. Section 4.1.3 explicitly prohibits the use of the gambling company's platform from the United States and numerous European countries, including Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. Australia is also among the excluded countries. At the same time, Rainbet pays American internet star Adin Ross to advertise its gambling services and reaches an audience of millions through partnerships like these. A company that excludes entire countries from its services has its advertising distributed by one of America's best-known internet entertainers. Rainbet is building a multimillion-dollar advertising business around markets that its own contractual terms place off-limits to customers. The list of prohibited countries is right there in black and white, buried in the fine print. The gambling ads are running in front of millions of viewers.

Our investigations further revealed that, during one of his broadcasts, Adin Ross first watched footage of an event featuring far-right imagery and then gambled on Rainbet. During that broadcast, his displayed gambling balance dropped from approximately $144,295 to $45,203. Far-right content and commercial gambling entertainment appeared within the same broadcast. Rainbet's relationship with Harrison Sullivan, known as HS TikkyTokky, is particularly revealing as well. His misogynistic and homophobic public statements are also documented. According to reports, Sullivan was offered a $15 million annual contract. Rainbet also sponsored an event held by his boxing company, Unhinged Promotions, in Dublin.

We have been investigating since September 2026 how cryptocurrency casinos use paid internet influencers to reach young audiences, while far-right content also finds a platform in the process. Rainbet keeps turning up. Ross himself put the value of his Rainbet contract at $100 million. This is where a gambling business with enormous advertising budgets, far-right internet circles, and personal access to the American president intersect. Rainbet sponsors the producer of the video and also works with Ross. Trump personally distributes the animated beating of journalists. The publicly visible connections are already disturbing enough: A president becomes the distributor of a violent fantasy directed against the press, while the people behind it monetize his reach through advertising for a gambling company.

Now back to Donald Trump: "This president needs psychological help and is unfit for office." The statement practically begs to be made, and it's still putting it politely. Politically, there's something far more concrete on the table. The president of the United States publishes a depiction in which journalists are beaten for asking questions and the people responsible laugh about it. The press is supposed to keep an eye on the government. In this video, the government shows it a fist.

A man stands at the podium in front of the American flags. A reporter lies between the chairs. The man asks whether anyone has any more questions.

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