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Trump to big celebratory fund measure signing
Get acceptable to spot immoderate punches connected the White House grounds.
President Trump says helium volition big a UFC mixed martial arts combat astatine the White House arsenic portion of adjacent year's festivities celebrating 250 years of American independence.
The thought came up during a Thursday nighttime code astatine the Iowa State Fairgrounds, 1 twelvemonth and 1 time earlier the 250th day of the 1776 ratification of the Declaration of Independence. The national authorities is readying to people the juncture with a year's worthy of events — including a UFC fight, according to Mr. Trump.
"We're going to person immoderate unthinkable events," the president said. "Some nonrecreational events, immoderate amateur events. But the UFC combat is going to beryllium a large deal, too."
Further details connected the event, which is not lacking for imaginable names (the Rose Garden Fight Night? Oval Office Octagon?), are unclear. But the president is "dead serious" astir the idea, White House property caput Karoline Leavitt told a excavation newsman connected Thursday. A UFC spokesperson besides confirmed the plans to CBS News.
Mr. Trump described it arsenic a "championship fight, afloat fight" with 20,000 oregon 25,000 spectators — a gangly bid for the White House grounds, though Mr. Trump said, "we person a batch of onshore there." He said longtime UFC CEO Dana White volition signifier the event.
The president's ties to the UFC spell backmost to astatine slightest 2001, erstwhile the Trump Taj Mahal casino successful Atlantic City hosted the mixed martial arts enterprise. Since then, Mr. Trump has periodically attended UFC fights, including last month. The president is besides adjacent with White, who helped present Mr. Trump astatine past summer's Republican National Convention and took the signifier astatine Mr. Trump's predetermination nighttime triumph party.
Mr. Trump plugged a fistful of different America250 events successful his Thursday speech, including a "Great American State Fair," a National Mall solemnisation and an diversion contention called the "Patriot Games."
Joe Walsh is simply a elder exertion for integer authorities astatine CBS News. Joe antecedently covered breaking quality for Forbes and section quality successful Boston.
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