Bryce Mitchell is back with another unfiltered take on American politics, and this one goes straight after a sacred cow: capitalism.
The UFC star posted a video message pushing back on people who blame capitalism for the country’s problems. His argument is simple: what critics are describing isn’t a free market at all, it’s something else entirely.
“Hey, I see a lot of people talking bad about the American government, and hey, I h*te the government too, but let me just say one thing, it’s not capitalism,” Mitchell said. “Stop blaming capitalism. Capitalism is called a free market where the government does not intervene in business. AKA tax people, tax support people, bail out the rich people, and all of that crap.”
From there, Mitchell shifted from economics to something closer to a warning. He described a system where power is concentrated in the hands of a single leader, someone capable of dragging the entire nation into conflict without meaningful checks.
“We have something more similar to a dictatorship where one leader can literally start a war by himself, k*ll innocent civilians overseas and then drag the rest of the country into a war and destroy the country,” he said. “That’s a dictatorship, not capitalism. Just wanted to set that straight. Capitalism’s awesome, but what we got sucks. God bless y’all.”
According to Mitchell, capitalism isn’t the villain, it’s the excuse people reach for when the real problem is concentrated political power operating with little restraint. Property rights, taxation, government overreach into markets that are supposed to be free, these are the threads he’s pulling on, and he’s not shy about connecting them to bigger claims about corruption and accountability at the top.
This isn’t the first time Mitchell has used his platform to take aim at Washington. He made headlines earlier this year when he criticized the decision to host a UFC event at the White House, an event billed as an “America 250” celebration and scheduled for June 14, 2026, on President Donald Trump’s birthday.
TKO Holdings previously said that the event expected to cost around $60 million and was funded entirely by the organization with no cost to taxpayers. Trump, a longtime combat sports fan, reportedly invested up to $50,000 in TKO Group Holdings in March, according to his financial disclosure, just weeks after the event was announced.
Mitchell’s issue then, much like now, wasn’t with the UFC. It was with the government’s role in the whole arrangement.
“What I think, personally, is that our government is desecrating its role in society by entertaining sports,” Mitchell said at the time.
He laid out what he sees as the proper function of government, and it’s a narrow one.
“Our government is to protect and serve the people, and really should be as minimal as possible,” he said.
For Mitchell, hosting a major sporting event isn’t a harmless gesture. It’s a misuse of public trust and resources.
“When you’re doing all of this stuff, hosting sporting events, it’s really outside of the goal of what the government was intended to be because our tax dollars and resources are funding this operation,” he said.
