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The BIG fight - Trump's 80th Birthday

30 May 2026 at 16:06
THE real BIG FIGHT ;-) Note: I sincerely hope that the MMA fighter on the far right (both literally and figuratively) will suffer a crushing defeat. Made with cliparts from here... and Inkscape!

California governor Gavin Newsom accuses Donald Trump of directing DoJ to investigate him and his wife – as it happened

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JD Vance also dodged the question when he was asked by CNBC who would be at the signing of the agreement on Friday.

Without addressing who would be present for the US side, he said they “expect the negotiating team from the Iranian side is going to be the Speaker of the House [Mohammad Bagher] Ghalibaf, and also the foreign minister [Abbas] Araghchi, along with a number of security officials and people who represent the different constituencies within their country.”

I think it’s a great day for the American people … our expectation is that the strait is going to be opened in a toll-free way for the long term.

That’s the sort of thing that we’re going to figure out in these technical negotiations. There are a lot of very important details to figure out that we’re actually going to sit at the table and discuss together and figure out a path forward on these details.

And what we’ve said is, OK, let’s talk about how exactly we’re going to do that.

They want access to an unsanctioned economy. We’ve talked about, ‘OK, we’re open to that,’ but that would require a long-term commitment to the inspection and verification regime.

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The White House as a locker room for MMA: Trump marks his 80th birthday with an unprecedented show

15 June 2026 at 14:16

In Idiocracy (2006), a savage satire that imagines life in the United States in 2505 after centuries of dysgenics and collective dumbing-down, the country’s president is a retired professional wrestler who mounts the floor of Congress to deliver the State of the Union address to pounding hard-rock music and ultimately presides over a sadistic, idiotic version of a fight in a Roman circus.

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Donald Trump greets Sean O'Malley during UFC Freedom 250 at the White House Sunday.

‘Reeks of corruption’: protesters rally as Trump hosts UFC event on his birthday

Demonstrations took off in Washington and across US as Trump throws first private, for-profit sporting event ever held on White House grounds

Dozens of people stood across the entrance gates to the Ellipse, the park south of the White House, on Sunday afternoon, holding protest signs and chanting as the president prepared to host seven mixed martial arts fights on the lawn.

Thousands of fight fans streamed past the protesters into the sprawling public viewing area that the Trump administration and the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), which is hosting the fights, erected steps from the White House. The cage fights, marketed as a celebration of the country’s “fighting spirit” ahead of its 250th anniversary, are being held on Donald Trump’s 80th birthday.

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FBI disrupts a planned attack on the White House UFC cage-fighting show, court papers say

16 June 2026 at 13:46
Court papers unsealed Tuesday say plotters disgruntled with the direction of the country spoke of flying explosives-laden drones and shooting panicked crowd members as they fled.

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  • Judge refuses to block White House UFC fight Zach Schonfeld
    A federal judge on Friday refused two Virginia residents’ request to block this weekend’s UFC event on the White House South Lawn, ruling they have no right to challenge the fight. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta said the two had no legal standing because they hadn’t shown the event, timed to Flag Day and President Trump's 80th...
     

Judge refuses to block White House UFC fight

12 June 2026 at 17:23
A federal judge on Friday refused two Virginia residents’ request to block this weekend’s UFC event on the White House South Lawn, ruling they have no right to challenge the fight. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta said the two had no legal standing because they hadn’t shown the event, timed to Flag Day and President Trump's 80th...

UFC Freedom 250 Fight Averages 8.2M Viewers Across U.S. & Latin America On Paramount+

18 June 2026 at 21:46
UFC’s spectacle on the White House lawn averaged 8.2M viewers across the U.S. and Latin America, Paramount said Thursday. Per the company, that’s the best “exclusive” live event audience ever for Paramount+, which likely means it excludes streaming audiences for major events in several other sports, particularly football and basketball. The UFC Freedom 250 viewership […]

UFC boss Dana White on another White House event: 'Never again'

15 June 2026 at 18:06
Don't expect another mixed martial arts fight on the White House lawn anytime soon. UFC President Dana White ruled out the possibility of ever hosting another event like Sunday's "UFC Freedom 250," citing high cost and logistical hassles. “It was an amazing experience; this was a one-of-one,” White said, according to the Associated Press. “It...

UFC to pay White House fighters in crypto issued by Trump company

Some fighters will receive bonuses in ‘stablecoins’ issued by Trump family business World Liberty Financial

The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) announced on Friday that it will pay bonuses to fighters in a form of cryptocurrency issued by Trump family business World Liberty Financial at the heavily publicized White House mixed martial arts event on Sunday.

The development connects the Trump family’s financial interests to the high-profile UFC competition being promoted on government property. The competition on the south White House lawn is scheduled for 14 June, Donald Trump’s birthday.

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White House UFC event spotlights Trump's decades-long partnership with Dana White

12 June 2026 at 22:40
On Sunday, an Ultimate Fighting Championship event on the White House lawn will mark both President Trump's 80th birthday and Flag Day. White House correspondent Liz Landers explains how this moment for Trump and the UFC was decades in the making.

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