Donald Trump promised that June\u2019s event would bring us some of the greatest fights in history. The truth appears to be rather different<\/p>\n
When Donald Trump first announced that the White House would host a UFC event to mark the United States\u2019 250th anniversary, the US president told supporters it would be a \u201cbig deal\u201d<\/a>. Evidence over the last week suggests that, not for the first time, Trump may be exaggerating a little.<\/p>\n Trump has promised a spectacle unlike anything the UFC has staged before. \u201cThey\u2019re going to have eight or nine championship fights \u2013 the biggest fights they\u2019ve ever had,\u201d Trump said<\/a> in December of plans for the White House event. \u201cEvery one is a championship fight, and every one is a legendary type of fight.\u201d<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Donald Trump promised that June\u2019s event would bring us some of the greatest fights in history. The truth appears to be rather different When Donald Trump first announced that the White House would host a UFC event to mark the United States\u2019 250th anniversary, the US president told supporters it would be a \u201cbig deal\u201d. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}