The brazenly corrupt Ultimate Fighting Championship event President Donald Trump hosted on the White House lawn Sunday night boiled down to a long, flashy commercial for his self-enriching cryptocurrency schemes. 

The fighters who signed on to beat each other to a pulp for Trump’s amusement entered the cage on steps that featured advertisements for Crypto.com, a trading platform that has sunk a billion dollars into Trump’s social media company in an arrangement critics have derided as deeply corrupt. The Trump family’s cryptocurrency platform, the scandal-plagued World Liberty Financial, announced that Sunday’s fight winners would be paid, in part, using a cryptocurrency traded on the platform. Commentators made sure to