Trump: White House will host UFC fight for America’s 250th birthday
President Donald Trump announced the White House plans to host a UFC fight for America’s 250th birthday next year.
A UFC event at the White House has become more than a farfetched notion.
But weigh-ins taking place at the Lincoln Memorial?
And fights in an octagon on the South Lawn? With giant screens projecting the event to be watched by “thousands of spectators?”?
Those were among the details in a Wall Street Journal report indicating the UFC event is on track to be held in June.
This comes as no surprise to UFC’s CEO Dana White.
“The White House fight is on,” White said in an Instagram live video Aug. 28. “We got it done today.”
In July, President Donald Trump proposed the idea of holding a UFC event on the White House grounds and Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter, has been involved in the planning, according to The Journal.
White, a close friend of Trump’s, introduced Trump at 2024 Republican National Convention.
Trump has attended multiple UFC events while serving as president.
