{"id":37821,"date":"2025-07-04T10:28:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T10:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/37821\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T10:28:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T10:28:10","slug":"donald-trump-plans-ufc-fight-on-white-house-grounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/37821\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Plans UFC Fight On White House Grounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFor the first time in the country\u2019s 250-year history, the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">White House<\/a> could host a cage match, serving as the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/ufc\/\">UFC<\/a>\u2018s next venue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOn Thursday, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> announced plans to host a mixed martial arts competition on the White House grounds as part of his year-long celebration for the United States\u2019 250th birthday, kicking off this July 4, during which he\u2019s expected to sign his controversial <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/one-big-beautiful-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">One Big Beautiful Bill<\/a> into law.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cSo every one of our national parks, battlefields and historic sites are going to have special events in honor of America 250,\u201d said Trump in his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DLqyzzgxHYO\/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">speech<\/a> in Des Moines, Iowa. \u201cAnd I even think we\u2019re going to have a UFC fight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTrump envisions a \u201cfull fight\u201d with 20,000 to 25,000 people in attendance. \u201cThink of this on the grounds of the White House. We have a lot of land there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe twice-impeached president celebrated his re-election in November with a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/11\/ufc-trump-joe-rogan-hug-dana-white-1236179474\/\">victory lap at UFC 309<\/a> at Madison Square Garden in New York City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cMy relationship with Trump is a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2024\/02\/ufc-president-dana-white-media-relationship-donald-trump-1235818280\/\">20-year relationship<\/a>,\u201d UFC CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/dana-white\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dana-white\" data-tag=\"dana-white\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dana White<\/a> previously said last February. \u201cI\u2019ve been friends with this guy for 20 years, and when he shows up to the fights\u2026 The guy is a fight fan. He\u2019s been a fight fan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tWhite credited Trump for letting the UFC use the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City when he took over as CEO, noting, \u201cVenues didn\u2019t want us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTrump\u2019s big US birthday celebration comes after he sparked nationwide \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/06\/no-kings-protests-trump-1236434200\/\">No Kings<\/a>\u201d protests in opposition to his <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/06\/trump-military-parade-1236434236\/\">military parade<\/a>, held on his 79th birthday under the guise of celebrating the Army\u2019s 250th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time in the country\u2019s 250-year history, the White House could host a cage match, serving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[5191,69,62,552,67,132,68,5223],"class_list":{"0":"post-37821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-dana-white","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-ufc","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-white-house"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114794496439669242","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}