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A UFC fighter on President Donald Trump's White House birthday card once allegedly called his Black opponent a "human gorilla" — and he's far from the only fighter on the bill with baggage.

Trump requested veteran heavyweight Derrick Lewis for the card after watching Josh Hokit, 28, battle Lewis' future opponent at UFC 327 in April. Hokit was matched against Lewis for the event — a seven-fight card costing upwards of $60 million — and has since become one of its most talked-about fighters, for dubious reasons.

Elon Musk’s net worth surged past $1 trillion on Friday as SpaceX—the rocket company he founded and controls—made its debut on the public market, prompting global revulsion and calls for an aggressive wealth tax to rein in out-of-control inequality.

“Musk became the world’s first trillionaire because our tax system shields the wealth of the ultra-wealthy from taxation while requiring working to people pay taxes on every paycheck,” said Igor Volsky, director of the Tax the Greedy Billionaires Campaign. “Today’s milestone should serve as a wake-up call to us all.”

Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate James Fishback has gotten himself disinvited from the Sunshine State Showdown, a key primary debate for the GOP, after he was caught violating party rules.

According to the right-wing outlet Florida's Voice, Fishback's removal from the event came as a result of his agreeing to participate in another unauthorized debate immediately after accepting the invitation to the authorized one.

After the Republican Party’s decision to terminate subsidies that had significantly reduced healthcare costs under the Affordable Care Act for 22 million people, the White House is considering a new way to—officials claim—“help” Americans who face massive medical bills, either due to high-deductible plans that don’t cover routine costs or because of emergency expenses.

The proposal, though, could just shift “who [the patients] owe the debt to,” as one doctor and researcher told The New York Times, which reported Thursday on the Trump administration’s proposal to allow people to take out loans directly from their health insurance companies when they can’t afford to pay a hospital or doctor’s office out of pocket—and then pay the insurance company back, likely with interest.

Renowned political analyst Larry Sabato told MS NOW's Antonia Hylton on Friday that the public could be sleeping on a key Senate race that might help Democrats take the majority: Alaska.

"Larry, do you think that there is a race out there right now that people aren't talking quite enough about?" asked Hylton, noting that plenty of other races, like North Carolina, are attracting massive attention. "Is there another area where they actually may have a shot, and the party or the base just aren't really thinking about it right now?"

Workers were tearing President Donald Trump's name off the Kennedy Center on Friday as onlookers nearby chanted and cheered.

Thousands tuned in on livestreams from ABC 7, WUSA9, Reuters, Fox 10, the Associated Press, Forbes, and MS NOW to watch it happen in real time. A crowd assembled outside the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as workers erected scaffolding on the façade. A judge had killed the Trump board's last-ditch legal attempt to stop the removal just hours earlier, leaving a midnight deadline intact.

President Donald Trump has been ordered by a federal court to yank his name off the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, losing his last-ditch appeal, and giving him no choice but to acquiesce.

The moment is symbolic, Brookings Institution senior fellow Elaine Kamarck told MS NOW's Antonia Hylton on Friday — and she even compared it to one of the most infamous moments at the end of the Saddam Hussein dictatorship in Iraq.

The Trump administration has considered using settlements from a Justice Department investigation into major banks' account closures to fund compensation for Jan. 6 rioters, according to sources briefed on the matter.

The Justice Department is investigating whether some of America's largest banks closed accounts of Jan. 6 defendants and other conservatives for political reasons — and President Donald Trump's allies are already eyeing potential settlements from that probe as a way to compensate those the president claims were unfairly targeted, reported CNN.