Trump to trade the Oval Office for The Octagon with UFC appearance
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President Donald Trump is trading the Oval Office for The Octagon on Saturday night.
President Donald Trump is trading the Oval Office for The Octagon on Saturday night. The president is set to attend UFC 314 in Miami, where Australian Alexander Volkanovski is set to take on Diego Lopes of Brazil in the featherweight title bout. His attendance at the late-night fight underscores his reemergence in the American pop cultural mainstream as he deploys the trappings of office to attend some of the nation’s premier sporting events. It also highlights his long and loyal ties to the UFC organization and its CEO, Dana White, and the alignment between the mixed martial arts brand and the young men who propelled Trump back to the White House. With the exception of nearly weekly trips to his Mar-a-Lago property in South Florida, the president’s domestic travel has been rare during his second term. But since taking office, he has flown aboard Air Force One to attend the Super Bowl in New Orleans, the Daytona 500 in Daytona Beach, and the NCAA men’s wrestling championships in Philadelphia. His warm reception at those events has emphasized his transformation from a pariah and punchline of American popular culture back to the status he enjoyed during his “Apprentice” days. “President Trump and the UFC are cultural icons. He is a fan of the sport and the elite competitive spirit of all the athletes who step into the Octagon,” White House communications director Steven Cheung told CNN.
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