DES MOINES, Iowa — President Donald Trump mentioned Thursday that he is pondering of staging a UFC match on the White Home grounds with upward of 20,000 spectators to have a good time 250 years of American independence.
“We now have a variety of land there,” mentioned Trump, a UFC fanatic who has attended a number of of its combined martial arts matches in current months and is shut pals with Dana White, the league’s president.
Trump introduced his plan in Iowa through the kickoff for a yr’s price of festivities to have a good time America’s 250th birthday on July 4, 2026.
The Republican president additionally introduced a culminating competition on the Nationwide Mall in Washington, D.C., and a separate athletic competitors that includes highschool athletes from throughout the nation.
“So each one among our nationwide parks, battlefields and historic websites are going to have particular occasions in honor of America 250. And I even suppose we will have a UFC combat,” Trump mentioned.
″Consider this on the grounds of the White Home,” he mentioned, including that it might be a “full combat” with 20,000 to 25,000 folks.
A White Home spokesperson mentioned they’d no particulars to share past the president’s announcement.
Trump has not too long ago loved standing ovations and cageside seats for a number of UFC fights, together with an look instantly after his 2024 reelection and one other simply final month alongside White for 2 championship fights.