Jorge Masvidal captured the “BMF” title at UFC 244 in the highest-profile fight of his career and was congratulated on social media by the highest-profile spectator at Madison Square Garden, the President of the United States himself, Donald Trump. Trump sat cageside as Masvidal threw down with Nate Diaz over three rounds in Saturday night’s main event and, even though fans were denied the spectacle of the fight continuing into the championship rounds by the doctor’s intervention, Masvidal’s performance was impressive enough to earn a tweet of congratulations from the Commander-In-Chief. Unfortunately for Trump, it all went a little bit wrong when it transpired he had retweeted a columnist attacking both him and the sport of MMA. Trump quote-tweeted a video post by Bloomberg opinion editor Tim O’Brien, whose tweet showed a video grab of Masvidal’s pre-fight media day scrum in which he described the President positively as “a bad mother (expletive).” On the face of it, that would be all well and good. But a cursory glance at O’Brien’s tweet showed it was the first of a lengthy thread
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