Trump says UFC arena outside White House could be permanent |
Trump says UFC arena outside White House could be permanent
President Trump suggested on Wednesday that the UFC arena currently under construction on the White House’s South Lawn could be a permanent addition.
“I’m looking at it and maybe we’ll never ever take it down,” Trump said in a video posted on his official TikTok account on Tuesday.
The president directed the installation of this structure to host a UFC fight on his birthday, June 14. The event is part of a series of scheduled celebrations marking America’s 250th anniversary.
Trump compared the structure to Paris’s Eiffel Tower in his Tuesday video. This iconic tower was originally intended to be only a temporary addition to the city for the 1889 World’s Fair, according to the Eiffel Tower’s website.
“And then they said, ‘We sort of like it, let’s leave it up a little longer.’ And then, they........