In recent years, Donald Trump has become a fixture at major events held by the UFC and the MMA circuit run by his longtime supporter, Dana White. It’s fair to say Cheryl Hines isn’t such a fixture.
The actress, best known for her years-long role on Curb Your Enthusiasm, is married to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who went from Democratic challenger to President Joe Biden to independent candidate to endorser of Donald Trump to Secretary of Health and Human Services. A longtime conspiracy theorist and anti-vaccine crusader, Kennedy has been imposing his worldview at HHS.
On Saturday night, when Trump made his entrance at UFC 314 in Miami. And while he greeted and shook the hand of Kennedy, he appeared to purposely snub Hines:
Lmfao Cheryl Hines pic.twitter.com/g8NYLr1OdY
— Yungus (@yungus__) April 13, 2025
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A subsequent social media post, however, showed Trump acknowledging Hines later.
President Trump greets RFK jr. and Cheryl Hines at UFC 314. pic.twitter.com/BgzMSXBZI1
— Brick Suit (@Brick_Suit) April 13, 2025
Last August, after he endorsed Trump, Kennedy told the press that Hines’ reaction to his decision was “the opposite of encouraging.”
“She is a lifelong Democrat, and the idea of me supporting Donald Trump was, like I said — it was something she would have never imagined, something that she never wanted in her life,” Kennedy said at the time. Kennedy, of course, is a lifelong Democrat himself, and comes from one of the country’s most prominent Democratic families.
In late 2021, Kennedy and Hines hosted a holiday party at which guests were urged to be vaccinated. Kennedy told Politico that the requirement was his wife’s doing and that he was “not always the boss at my own house.” The following January, Hines criticized her husband for commenting about vaccines invoking Anne Frank.
Because Hines’ most famous acting role is as a woman who is often exasperated by her husband, many people reacted to the UFC snub by invoking Curb Your Enthusiasm, with at least a couple of social media wags, setting the moment to that show’s theme music.
Donald Trump snubbing Cheryl Hines is a real-life Curb Your Enthusiasm moment #UFC314 pic.twitter.com/4Vawhrjgme
— Complex (@Complex) April 13, 2025
Cheryl Hines getting blown off for a handshake by President Trump as the ending of a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode. pic.twitter.com/igf9PY1n0B
— David Bressler 📊 (@bresslertweets) April 13, 2025
Also, at that UFC event, Bryce Mitchell, a fighter who has openly praised Hitler, was forced to tap out due to a ninja choke in his fight with Jean Silva.
Photo courtesy of X screenshot.
