Trump announces UFC fight at White House for America250 celebration

President Donald Trump introduced {that a} UFC combat will happen within the White Home subsequent yr to have fun America’s subsequent 250th birthday.

“Every of our nationwide parks, battlefields and historic websites can have particular occasions in honor of ‘America250’ and I even assume we can have a UFC combat,” Trump stated in a speech on the Iowa State Fairgrounds on Thursday in an deal with on the eve of July 4.

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“Does anybody take a look at UFC? The Nice Dana White? We’re going to have a UFC combat. We’re going to have a UFC combat – consider this – on the positioning of the White Home. We have now a variety of land there.

“We’re going to construct slightly – we aren’t, Dana goes to do it. Dana is nice, distinctive – a UFC combat, championship combat, full combat, equivalent to 20,000 to 25,000 folks, and we are going to do this as a part of ‘250’.”

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UFC CEO Dana White, Left, and President Donald Trump look ahead to a Bantamweight title combat throughout UFC 316 in Prudential Middle. (Vincent CarchiTta-Imagement Pictures by way of Reuters)

The competitors appears to be going down on the Witte Huis garden, though no formal permits or logistical particulars have been confirmed.

The Nationwide Park Service, which manages the positioning of the White Home, has not responded publicly. UFC has not launched an evidence that confirms or refuses the plan.

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UFC CEO Dana White (left) talks to President-Elect Donald Trump Ringside throughout UFC 309 in Madison Sq. Backyard in New York Metropolis on November 16, 2024. (Brad Penner-Imagnen Pictures)

Trump, a effectively -known good pal of UFC CEO Dana White, attended a UFC combat in June in Newark, New Jersey.

A thunderous roar over the offered -out crowd in “The Rock” when Trump entered the constructing with white for a UFC 316 stacked most important map on June 7.

Trump made his attribute dance whereas he walked previous the Enviornment flooring and greeted UFC followers whereas he went his approach to his seat rings.

This was an analogous welcome that he acquired on the Kaseya Middle in Miami on UFC 314, the place he had a big entourage, together with his granddaughter Kai Trump and FBI director Kash Patel.

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