UFC CEO Dana White plans on invading the White Home in June.
Earlier this yr, U.S. President Donald Trump turned heads when he introduced that the Final Combating Championship would host an occasion on the garden at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in 2026. Later, Trump steered that July 4 could be the date. Nonetheless, that now not seems to be the case, in line with White.
“It’s extra prone to be June than July,” White instructed Zach Gelb. “The president needed to do it July 4th. The president didn’t understand how stacked his schedule is on July 4th. He’s gonna be in three completely different states that day, so it’s trying extra like June.”
UFC Plotting full takeover of Washington D.C.
Particulars concerning the occasion are nonetheless scant, although in a separate look on The Herd, White revealed that the UFC’s history-making combat evening in Washington can be a full-on takeover of the nation’s capital.
“Safety goes to be a large difficulty, as a result of on the finish of the day, the Secret Service’s job is to guard the president, and I don’t know the way it’s going to work out so far as having folks there stay on the garden of the White Home,” White stated. “It’ll be underneath 5,000 [people] although.”
White added that whereas the cardboard will possible happen on the South Garden, it gained’t accommodate tens of 1000’s of followers, however he hopes to accommodate them close by.
“There’s a park that’s linked to the White Home,” White added. “We might put 85,000 folks over there with screens, and we’re going to place a giant stage on the market, do concert events.
“We’re going to take over Washington, DC, that complete week.”
Now the one query left is, who can be preventing on the White Home in 9 months?
