President Donald Trump arrives to talk at a rally on the Iowa State Fairgrounds, Thursday, July 3, 2025, in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photograph/Alex Brandon)
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President Trump has introduced that an Final Preventing Championship (UFC) bout might be held on the grounds of the White Home subsequent yr, one among many occasions to be held to have fun America’s 250th birthday.
Throughout a speech Thursday on the Iowa State Fairgrounds in Des Moines, Trump indicated UFC president Dana White goes to prepare one of many blended martial arts fights on the grounds of the White Home.
“We’ve plenty of land there,” Trump mentioned, including that will probably be a “full combat” and that as much as 25,000 folks will present up for the spectacle.
President Trump has been recognized to attend Final Preventing Championship occasions through the years, most not too long ago in Newark, New Jersey, in June. In 2001, he hosted a UFC match at his Trump Taj Mahal on line casino in Atlantic Metropolis.
Trump can also be a pal of White, who final yr launched Trump on the Republican Nationwide Conference, earlier than he accepted the Republican presidential nomination.
White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt mentioned Trump was “lifeless critical” concerning the plan. Writing on X, she mentioned “It may be EPIC!”
Trump mentioned the UFC combat on the White Home was simply one among many occasions which might be being deliberate to mark the signing of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.
“Each one among our nationwide park battlefields and historic websites are going to have particular occasions in honor of America250,” he mentioned on the Des Moines rally, which kicked off the celebrations.
Trump mentioned the climactic celebrations, on July 4th, 2026, will embody a competition on the Nationwide Mall in Washington, D.C.
