{"id":74779,"date":"2026-06-12T13:01:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/us-judge-refuses-to-block-trumps-white-house-ufc-birthday-event\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T13:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:01:13","slug":"us-judge-refuses-to-block-trumps-white-house-ufc-birthday-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/us-judge-refuses-to-block-trumps-white-house-ufc-birthday-event\/","title":{"rendered":"US judge refuses to block Trump\u2019s White House UFC birthday event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gaudy arena is already built on South Lawn to celebrate US president\u2019s birthday and America\u2019s 250th anniversary<\/p>\n<p>A federal judge refused on Friday to stop the White House from staging a UFC show this weekend in an elaborate ring already built on the South Lawn to celebrate the nation\u2019s 250th anniversary \u2013 on Donald Trump\u2019s 80th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>US district judge Amit Mehta\u2019s ruling allows organizers to use the White House lawn as the venue for Sunday\u2019s planned UFC mixed martial arts event.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/12\/judge-ruling-trump-white-house-ufc-event\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaudy arena is already built on South Lawn to celebrate US president\u2019s birthday and America\u2019s 250th anniversary A federal judge refused on Friday to stop the White House from staging a UFC show this weekend in an elaborate ring already built on the South Lawn to celebrate the nation\u2019s 250th anniversary \u2013 on Donald Trump\u2019s &#8230; <a title=\"US judge refuses to block Trump\u2019s White House UFC birthday event\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/us-judge-refuses-to-block-trumps-white-house-ufc-birthday-event\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US judge refuses to block Trump\u2019s White House UFC birthday event\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74779","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\/74779","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=74779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}