President Donald Trump Wants A UFC Event At The White House

SportsMoneyPresident Donald Trump Wants A UFC Event At The White HouseByTrent Reinsmith, Contributor

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More during the UFC 309 event at Madison Square Garden on November 16, 2024 in New York City. (Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images)Getty Images If President Donald Trump has his way, the White House grounds will host a UFC title fight in 2026 as part of the America250 celebration. "Every one of our national parks, battlefields and historic sites are going to have special events in honor of ‘America250’ and I even think we’re going to have a UFC fight," Trump said in a speech at the Iowa State Fairgrounds on Thursday, July 3. "Does anybody watch UFC

The great [UFC CEO] Dana White

We’re going to have a UFC fight

We’re going to have a UFC fight — think of this — on the grounds of the White House

We have a lot of land there. "We’re going to build a little — we’re not, Dana is going to do it

Dana is great, one of a kind — going to be a UFC fight, championship fight, full fight, 20,000 to 25,000 people, and we’re going to do that as part of ‘250’ also. " White posted the clip on social media

The SportsJournal reached out to the UFC ing Trump’s speech

MORE FOR YOU White and Trump have a long relationship

In 2022, White recalled the early days of his involvement of the UFC, along with the motion’s owners at the time, Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta. "This brand was so bad, venues didn’t even want us

Arenas didn’t want us," said White. “These arenas were, ‘woah, we don’t want this stuff in our arena. ’ "So we had a hard time finding venues, and Trump literally called us

He said 'Come to my place, do the event here

We’ll have you at the Trump Taj Mahal'. “He showed up for the first fight, and was their to the last fight, both times we went there. “Everything that happened to my in my career that happened from there on out, he would pick up the phone and congratulate me. ” The UFC also d the of Trump announcing he would to hold a UFC event at the White House

The motion asked fans who they would to see headline the fight card

One fighter, who would to compete is former two-division UFC champion Conor McGregor, who wrote on social media, “Happy 4th of July, USA

Excited with President Trump announcing a UFC fight event at the White House

Count me in. ” The UFC is on a break this weekend

The motion returns to action on Saturday, July 12 for the UFC Nashville fight card at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee

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