Trump: The White House will host UFC fight for America’s 250th birthday
President Donald Trump has announced plans for the White House to host the UFC battle for America’s 250th birthday next year.
- Ivanka Trump may be involved in planning the UFC fight at the White House next year.
- UFC CEO Dana White said he spoke with Donald Trump about the event, and Trump suggested Ivanka’s involvement.
- Ivanka Trump served as senior adviser during her father’s first term, but said she would retreat from politics during the reelection campaign.
President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump said she returned from politics after her father’s first term, but may now be back to help plan a potential UFC fight at the White House next year.
UFC CEO Dana White told CBS Mornings that she spoke to the event on August 11th in a call with the president.
“So Ivanka reached out to me and started talking about where it is and the possibility that she and I have put together all the renders,” he said on CBS.
The White House did not comment on Ivanka Trump’s role in the event, and her representatives did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Ivanka Trump was deeply involved in Donald Trump’s first term as advisor. But when the current president announced his third campaign, she said she has returned from politics. Since Donald Trump took office, sports have become part of his politics, with several sporting events, professional athletes on the Presidential Council and of course his love for golf.
Ivanka Trump was a senior adviser to the 45th President.
Ivanka Trump was a senior adviser to the president during his first term and frequently appeared on his side. By the end of his term, she had been under attack to assume the role of an informal diplomat on major foreign travel. Her husband, Jared Kushner, was also a senior adviser to the president.
Ivanka Trump is the eldest son of the president’s two daughters. Her mother was Ivana, the first wife of Donald Trump, who passed away in 2022. Ivana’s two brothers are Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, who manages the Trump organization. Before his father went to the White House for the first time, Ivanka Trump was also the executive vice president of the Trump organization.
When her father announced her reelection campaign in 2022, she posted on Instagram saying that while she loved her father, she prioritized her three young children this time. In the year the 45th president was a somewhat political pariah, Ivanka Trump was called to testify on January 6, 2021 before a House committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol and the New York Civic Fraud Case.
“Politics – it’s a rather dark world. There’s a lot of darkness, a lot of negativity, and it’s really at odds with what feels good for me as a person,” she said in her July 2022 “Rex Fridman Podcast.” “And as you know, it’s really rough business, so for me and my family, I feel it’s right not to participate.”
Ivanka still has several appearances in the second season
She may not be in the spotlight for Donald Trump’s second term, but Ivanka Trump was completely lacking from her father’s return to power. In fact, she attended the UFC battle with her father in Newark in June, and this summer in Miami. There are several other appearances since Ivanka Trump’s father returned to the White House:
- Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner attended the inauguration ceremony along with other Trump brothers.
- Her father-in-law, Charles Kushner, was the president of the US ambassadors to France and Monaco, and Ivanka Trump attended the oath in the oval office in June.
- On the same day as Charles Kushner’s oath, Ivanka Trump attended the 88-foot flagpole ceremony that Trump set up in the White House.
- She also participated in Trump’s speech to a joint Congressional meeting in March, with her husband, sister Tiffany Trump and brothers Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr.
- On another sporting outing, Ivanka Trump also joined the president, making history as the first president to attend the Super Bowl in February 2025.
Contributors: Jennifer Sangaran, Michael Collins, Saman Shafik, Gabe Hauari, USA Today Network
Kinsey Crowley is a Trump Connect reporter for the USA Today Network. Contact her at kcrowley@gannett.com. Follow her on X and Tiktok @kinseycrowley or Bluesky @kinseycrowley.bsky.social.
