Trump looking forward to attending UFC White House event featuring ‘all top’ fighters

President Donald Trump confirmed successful a sit-down interrogation with boxer Jake Paul this week that helium volition be the historical UFC lawsuit successful Washington, D.C., scheduled for the president’s 80th day arsenic portion of the America 250 celebration.

Trump, a longtime protagonist of the UFC, spoke astir the highly anticipated lawsuit scheduled to instrumentality spot connected the South Lawn of the White House connected June 14 that volition diagnostic 2 title bouts. 

President-elect Donald Trump looks connected during the UFC 309 lawsuit astatine Madison Square Garden successful New York, New York, connected Nov. 16, 2024. (Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC)

"I will," Trump responded erstwhile asked by Paul if helium volition beryllium astatine the event, which has been dubbed UFC Freedom 250. "It's going to beryllium astonishing astatine the White House. And Dana [White] is simply a large guy. He's a bully instrumentality of yours, you know. Dana is simply a bully guy. The best. I mean, there's cipher similar him."

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Trump besides spoke astir the card, which was released days earlier and includes Ilia Topuria going up against Justin Gaethje for the UFC World Lightweight Championship and Alex Pereira taking connected Ciryl Gane for the interim UFC Heavyweight Championship.

"[White] had the thought of staging it close astatine the beforehand doorway of the White House. We'll beryllium close successful the beforehand doorway of the White House. And he's got a tremendous card. I don't adjacent cognize if it's filled out, but I conscionable saw it and it looks similar it's going to beryllium each apical guys. They each privation to combat astatine the White House. So it's going to beryllium successful grant of the 250th year. It'll beryllium great." 

People clasp a emblem arsenic President Donald Trump arrives astatine UFC 309 astatine Madison Square Garden, Saturday, Nov. 16, 2024, successful New York.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The paper besides includes Sean O’Malley taking connected Aiemann Zahabi, Michael Chandler squaring disconnected against Mauricio Ruffy, Kyle Daukaus battling against Bo Nickal and Steve Garcia going up against Diego Lopes.

DANA WHITE DISMISSES NOTION WHITE HOUSE UFC EVENT WILL BE ‘TOO POLITICAL’: ‘IT’S A HISTORY-MAKING EVENT’

White said Thursday that the UFC is readying to connection 85,000 escaped tickets for the outdoor viewing country astatine the Ellipse successful Washington, D.C. Tickets for the South Lawn volition not beryllium sold, but alternatively volition beryllium comped to members of the military, ESPN reported.

Despite the determination and beingness of Trump, White has dismissed the conception that the lawsuit volition beryllium "too political."

"I mean, I don’t cognize however it would beryllium excessively governmental different than it’s astatine the White House," helium said successful January during an interrogation with Bloomberg. "Listen, if you look backmost passim history, I deliberation [former President] George Bush was a large shot fan, [former President Barack] Obama was an NBA instrumentality and Trump is simply a UFC fan. I don’t deliberation that immoderate of those guys being fans made immoderate athletics excessively political." 

UFC president Dana White and erstwhile United States president Donald Trump be the UFC 296 lawsuit astatine T-Mobile Arena connected Dec. 16, 2023, successful Las Vegas, Nevada. (Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)

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The UFC lawsuit is conscionable 1 of the galore events Trump has planned for the solemnisation of America’s 250th birthday. Last month, it was announced that an IndyCar contention volition instrumentality spot successful August and volition beryllium escaped for fans to travel and watch.

Fox News Digital’s Ryan Gaydos contributed to this report. 

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