President Donald Trump on Thursday introduced a really uncommon plan for the nation’s 250th anniversary subsequent yr: a mixed-martial arts battle on the grounds of the White Home with as much as 25,000 spectators in attendance.
“We’re gonna have a UFC battle, consider this, on the grounds of the White Home,” he mentioned. “We’ve quite a lot of land there, we’re gonna construct a little bit ― we’re not, Dana’s gonna do it, Dana’s nice, one in every of a form.”
He was referring to Dana White, CEO of Final Preventing Championship, aka UFC.
The 2 have been shut for years, with White endorsing Trump and talking on his behalf on the Republican Nationwide Conference in 2016, 2020 and 2024.
Final yr, Trump urged that White “arrange a migrant league of fighters,” with the migrant champion battling the UFC champion.
White later mentioned that was a joke.
“However yeah, he did say it,” he confirmed at a UFC occasion.
Trump didn’t unveil particulars of the occasion, so it’s not clear what sort of occasion house or construction can be constructed for an viewers of as much as 25,000, however that quantity is greater than the capability of any NBA enviornment.
Madison Sq. Backyard in New York, for instance, can maintain roughly 20,000 spectators.
Whereas it might doubtless be the primary business battle on the White Home, it wouldn’t be the primary battle of any variety: President Theodore Roosevelt boxed for health, and had a hoop arrange within the White Home for sparring periods with army aides.
Roosevelt was as soon as hit so exhausting that one eye was completely broken.
Trump’s critics mentioned internet hosting a serious UFC occasion in entrance of an enormous viewers can be beneath the dignity of the White Home ― and quite a lot of mentioned it was one thing straight from the 2006 dystopian comedy “Idiocracy.”
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