Trump says he’ll host a UFC combat on White Home grounds subsequent 12 months
Get able to see some punches on the White Home grounds.
President Trump says he’ll host a UFC blended martial arts combat on the White Home as a part of subsequent 12 months’s festivities celebrating 250 years of American independence.
The concept got here up throughout a Thursday evening speech on the Iowa State Fairgrounds, one 12 months and in the future earlier than the 250th anniversary of the 1776 ratification of the Declaration of Independence. The federal authorities is planning to mark the event with a 12 months’s price of occasions — together with a UFC combat, in accordance with Mr. Trump.
“We will have some unimaginable occasions,” the president stated. “Some skilled occasions, some novice occasions. However the UFC combat goes to be a giant deal, too.”
Additional particulars on the occasion, which isn’t missing for potential names (the Rose Backyard Struggle Night time? Oval Workplace Octagon?), are unclear. However the president is “useless severe” in regards to the thought, White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt instructed a pool reporter on Thursday. A UFC spokesperson additionally confirmed the plans to CBS Information.
Mr. Trump described it as a “championship combat, full combat” with 20,000 or 25,000 spectators — a tall order for the White Home grounds, although Mr. Trump stated, “we now have loads of land there.” He stated longtime UFC CEO Dana White will arrange the occasion.
The president’s ties to the UFC return to at the least 2001, when the Trump Taj Mahal on line casino in Atlantic Metropolis hosted the blended martial arts enterprise. Since then, Mr. Trump has periodically attended UFC fights, together with final month. The president can be shut with White, who helped introduce Mr. Trump eventually summer season’s Republican Nationwide Conference and took the stage at Mr. Trump’s election evening victory get together.
Mr. Trump plugged a handful of different America250 occasions in his Thursday speech, together with a “Nice American State Truthful,” a Nationwide Mall celebration and an athletic competitors known as the “Patriot Video games.”
“I feel it is going to be a wild time,” Mr. Trump instructed reporters after returning to the D.C. space following the speech.
