DES MOINES, Iowa — President Donald Trump stated Thursday that he is considering of staging a UFC match on the White Home grounds with upward of 20,000 spectators to have fun 250 years of American independence.
“We have now a whole lot of land there,” stated Trump, a UFC fanatic who has attended a number of of its blended martial arts matches in current months and is shut mates with Dana White, the league’s president.
Trump introduced his plan in Iowa in the course of the kickoff for a 12 months’s price of festivities to have fun America’s 250th birthday on July 4, 2026.
The Republican president additionally introduced a culminating competition on the Nationwide Mall in Washington, and a separate athletic competitors that includes highschool athletes from throughout the nation.
“So each certainly one of our nationwide parks, battlefields and historic websites are going to have particular occasions in honor of America 250. And I even assume we’ll have a UFC battle,” Trump stated.
″Consider this on the grounds of the White Home. We have now a whole lot of land there,” he stated, including that it will be a “full battle” with 20,000 to 25,000 individuals.
A White Home spokesperson stated they’d no particulars to share past the president’s announcement.
Trump has lately loved standing ovations and cage-side 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.