Dana White says UFC will host first-ever White House fight

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Where are we at with there being a fight on
the lawn at the White House.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
You know, I was thinking about that, And there's gonna
be this UFC fight. It's gonna be held at the
White House on July fourth, twenty twenty six, and it
is to celebrate America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday. This
has been confirmed by the UFC CEO, Daniel Why.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Wait, wait wait, So nothing says America now like watching
two guys beat the heck out of each other.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Right, So that's where I was going. How does that
help you celebrate America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday?

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Well, it does. It's just pure entertainment. Look, if we're
gonna have a fight, let two people have a duel
on the lawn at the White Let's go all old school.
If we're going to celebrate two hundred and fifty years ago,
let's do it the way they did it two hundred
and fifty years ago, which is, you know, eight paces
turn fire. Let's I mean, if we're gonna do it,
let's go it. This is like one of the things
that we because any time on this program you say

(00:53):
anything that's remotely critical of Trump, people just get mad.
But whatever. There is a level of seriousness to governance
in order to accomplish things that I don't think Trump
always appreciates. And this is the sort of thing that
people are going to look at and they're going to
say that doesn't really seem like a serious person. Like

(01:16):
I've always said, the Supreme Court. The fact that the
Supreme Court is open to me, like I'm torn on
this because on one hand, you do want transparency, but
you do sort of like the dignified idea of the
Supreme Court, like that they were these high up people
who lived in lives of seclusion and only came out

(01:36):
of their holes. They're like Pasatani phil right, they came
out of their hole to to rule on legal matters
and then that's it. And now they go give speeches
and write books and all of that stuff. And it's like, eh,
I don't know if I wanted to see that. I
sort of feel like that, like the presidency, like I
want somebody who's going to do a good job. I
want somebody who's going to accomplish things, but I also

(01:58):
want somebody who understands sort of the magnitude like when
those old dead guys and those portraits are staring back
at you fully appreciates what that is, the magnitude of it, right,
And I just I think things like this come off
as unseerious, and I think the home of our nation's
president should be more than just a UFC fight.

Speaker 2 (02:21):
So Dana White apparently is discussing all the plans. He's
meeting with Trump and Ivanka Trump. Apparently she is directly
involved in the planning, and they're preparing some venue renderings
for review, like where this is going to happen. Is
it going to be on the eclipse or you know,
the garden, the new patio, Like where are we doing this? Well?

Speaker 1 (02:45):
What does this accomplish? Is my question? Like what are
we doing by doing this? Are we saying? And okay,
if we are, but it's unclear what message we're sending, Like, Okay,
this is America now a a UFC fight on the
lawn is yes. Matt, Matt our boss said that Bill Clinton,

(03:10):
you know, stayed in the White House when he did
the thing in the White House. But it doesn't mean
we can't get it back. I love you, Matt, but
can't we get it back? Right? I mean, can't we
re establish some sort of like decency order, like, can't
we go back that? See, this is what Biden was
supposed to be. I know this sounds crazy, but I
think in a lot of people's minds, they didn't even
fathom that Biden had lost his marbles or was going

(03:33):
to be controlled by radical leftists. They thought Biden was
going to restore some semblance of normalcy.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Who's they The people who voted for him thought, yeah,
that guy would bring dignity.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
Okay, See this is a true story. There was a
kid here, he used to produce on the weekends. He
was in his early twenties, was a Republican voter. I
asked him one night when I was doing the weekend show,
who are you voting for? And he goes, I don't know.
I said, how could you not know? He goes, I
like a lot of the things Trump has done. I
hate the way he's handled the Oval office, and I
just think, I think there's you and I can think
that's as crazy as whatever, but there's a lot of

(04:04):
people who out there who vote that way, and I
just think this feeds in that