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Fight Night at the White House

The New Yorker · Jun 15, 2026, 1:35 PM · Also reported by 4 other sources

To celebrate his eightieth birthday—and the nation’s two-hundred-and-fiftieth—President Trump invited the country to watch U.F.C. fighters beat one another up.

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