One of the most famous moments from Sunday’s highly-anticipated UFC Championship show outside the White House was when fighter Josh Hokit said into the microphone, “Michelle Obama is a man!”
The moment went viral and prompted plenty of left-wing media meltdowns, including a segment from Monday’s episode of MS NOW’s The Last Word, where host Lawrence O’Donnell all but sobbed as he sought “spiritual guidance” from Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock of Georgia about how to handle those five mean words that had nothing to do with him:
This is something I think we need, literally, spiritual guidance on how to bear this kind of thing. I want to ask you about what happened at the White House this weekend. One of the fighters, in performing there, who's - I've never heard of the guy, specifically attacked Michelle Obama viciously, poisonously, by name in a way that everyone there seemed to enjoy.
Warnock, acting like his position as the pastor of Martin Luther King Jr.’s old church gave him Earth-shattering moral credibility, first blubbered his homage to the former first lady:
Michelle Obama is one of the most dignified people one could ever meet. She served brilliantly as first lady of the United States of America. She's a graduate of Princeton and Harvard.
Then he framed Hokit’s comment as an attack on all Black people, which is about as accurate as touting O’Donnell’s chances of becoming the next UFC heavyweight champion:
This idea that black women aren't really women and black people aren't really people harkens to the darkest days in our country's history.
O’Donnell just said himself that Hokit referred to Michelle Obama “specifically… by name,” but Warnock took it personally and roped millions of people in with him. No one thought Hokit was insulting all African Americans except for Warnock, which points to a problem with the Senator more than the comment itself.
Hokit’s remark wasn’t even an attack on Michelle Obama as much as Warnock’s next few sentences were attacks on the Trump administration and First Amendment rights that the left claims to love so much:
This is not political speech. This is immoral speech. This is bigotry. This is evil come alive in words, because words have power. . . Donald Trump has unleashed a kind of evil in the ether of the American experience.
Warnock also attacked Vice President J.D. Vance for marrying a “woman of color,” which makes him a hypocrite in Warnock’s view:
I want to know what J.D. Vance thinks about the first lady of the United States being treated in this way and spoken about in such awful terms. He is married himself to a woman of color. How would he feel if someone said this to his wife or said this about his wife?
Never mind that much worse comments have been made about current first lady Melania Trump, which the left ignored while treating Michelle Obama as someone so sacred that no one is allowed to make fun of her. The leftist media didn’t even show this kind of ‘righteous’ indignation when protestors actually desecrated churches. All they did was engage in cover-ups and defend those who attacked those houses of worship.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
MS NOW's The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell
6/15/26
10:26:19LAWRENCE O'DONNELL: Senator Raphael Warnock is the pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church of Atlanta, the same church where the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr., served as pastor, as his father did before him. Raphael Warnock's new book is titled The Crooked Places Made Straight: Reflections on the Moral Meaning of America.
And this is - this one's for Reverend Warnock, because this is something I think we need, literally, spiritual guidance on how to bear this kind of thing.
I want to ask you about what happened at the White House this weekend. One of the fighters, in performing there, who's - I've never heard of the guy, specifically attacked Michelle Obama viciously, poisonously, by name in a way that everyone there seemed to enjoy. No objection from Donald Trump. He called the guy outstanding afterwards, as he did all the other performers up there.
What do you feel when you hear something like that?
SEN. RAPHAEL WARNOCK (D-GA): Michelle Obama is one of the most dignified people one could ever meet. She served brilliantly as first lady of the United States of America. She's a graduate of Princeton and Harvard.It doesn't matter to folks like that. This idea that black women aren't really women and black people aren't really people harkens to the darkest days in our country's history.
This is not political speech. This is immoral speech. This is bigotry. This is evil come alive in words, because words have power.
And if you can diminish people, if you can say that there's something other, then that opens the door for you to unleash the kind of cruelty that we're seeing under the Trump administration.
So, it was very painful to hear the reporting about this. You know, I had the pleasure of being in the presence of the first lady.
But when I see this, I don't just think about her. I think about my own sister. I think about my mother. I think about the teachers. I think about the women in my church, you know, who have loved this country through its darkest moments, who've always held on to hope.
And here we are once again. Donald Trump has unleashed a kind of evil in the ether of the American experience.
And this is a moral moment in America, and it's time for people to stand up. We know who he is. If, that performer, I don't know him either. He's not worth knowing. He felt a license to do that. And there are other folks sitting there. Donald Trump is sitting there, the President of the United States. He didn't condemn it.
Vice President of the United States, J.D. Vance, who I hear will be out tomorrow talking about his conversion experience as a Catholic, talking about his moral bearing. I want to know what J.D. Vance thinks about the first lady of the United States being treated in this way and spoken about in such awful terms. He is married himself to a woman of color. How would he feel if someone said this to his wife or said this about his wife? We have to condemn hate and bigotry wherever it shows up.
