Chapter 59
Dojo
MJ and several White House staffers walk from the White House to the South lawn to check out her new dojo.
MJ memorized a speech to make her case for the dojo. She had a mixed martial artist president as precedence. President Teddy Roosevelt lined the White House basement with training mats to spar in wrestling, boxing, and judo over a century ago. MJ didn’t have to argue. None just said yes. Today she tries out the dojo for the first time.
A chain link fence with a green tarp surrounds the White House Basketball Court. Obama repurposed it from a tennis court. MJ repurposes it again as the White House Dojo. The Washington Monument juts up above the trees outside the fence, a reminder of where she is. Twenty-five hundred square feet of green mats cover half the basketbal
