07/06/2026
BREAKING: Adam Sandler, Dwayne Johnson, and Tom Brady just said “no thanks” to Trump’s UFC birthday bash
Trump’s team is scrambling to fill seats with celebrity faces ahead of his UFC Freedom 250 birthday spectacle scheduled for June 14 on the White House South Lawn, and they are not having much luck. The $60 million open-air event was supposed to be a star-studded celebration of both Trump’s 80th birthday and America’s 250th anniversary, but the guest list is falling apart fast.
UFC President Dana White had personally named a lineup of A-listers he was hoping to bring out, including Adam Sandler, Dwayne Johnson, Tom Brady, Jared Leto, Jason Statham, Guy Ritchie, and Mario Lopez. Sources have confirmed that Johnson will not be there. Neither will Sandler or Leto. And in a particularly telling detail, Lopez, who has openly identified as a conservative, is sitting this one out too.
This is not an isolated incident. It is part of a growing pattern of celebrity rejection that has followed Trump’s entertainment ambitions throughout his second term. The Great American State Fair concert on June 24 similarly collapsed when most of the booked performers walked away after learning the show was being used as a partisan event. Artists including Milli Vanilli, Bret Michaels, and Martina McBride all cited being misled about the nature of the event.
Rather than acknowledge the growing celebrity blacklist, Trump took to Truth Social to dismiss the performers he lost as talentless money-grubbers and declared himself the headline act. His replacement lineup features Lee Greenwood, the 83-year-old country singer best known for a 1984 hit, and Christopher Macchio, an opera singer with 571 monthly Spotify listeners.
Hollywood is sending a message, and it could not be louder if it tried.