WASHINGTON, April 10 \u2014 Americans could see a first-of-its-kind \u200bfight as they prepare to celebrate the country\u2019s 250th independence: a cage match between the sons \u200cof a sitting US president, and the son of a \u200bformer president.<\/p>\n
The improbable possibility arose on Thursday when Hunter Biden, son of former Democratic President Joe Biden, challenged Republican President Donald Trump\u2019s eldest sons, \u200bDonald Jr. and Eric, to a fight.<\/p>\n
Biden said he got a call from left-wing social media commentator Andrew Callaghan, who told him that he was organising the match.<\/p>\n
\u201cI told him I\u2019d do it \u2013 100% in if he \u200ccan pull it off. And if he can\u2019t, I\u2019m still \u2060coming,\u201d he said in a \u2060video shared on Callaghan\u2019s Channel 5 Instagram.<\/p>\n
The \u2060Trump Organization and White House \u2060did not \u2060immediately respond to requests for comments.<\/p>\n
It is unclear if or when this match would happen. The White House plans to host \u2060a similar event \u2013 but with actual UFC fighters \u2013 on June 14 as part of a series of events celebrating the semiquincentennial of the United States.<\/p>\n
Biden became president after defeating Trump in the 2020 election, which the Republican continues to falsely \u2060claim was the result of widespread fraud.<\/p>\n
The threatened match between their sons has echoes of a proposed 2023 cage match \u2060between tech titans Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk, though that event never \u2060took \u2060place.<\/p>\n
Earlier eras of American politics saw bloody political faceoffs, notably the 1804 \u200bduel between Vice President Aaron Burr \u200band former Treasury Secretary Alexander \u200cHamilton, which resulted in the former treasury \u200bsecretary\u2019s death and effectively ended \u200bBurr\u2019s political career. \u2014 Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON, April 10 \u2014 Americans could see a first-of-its-kind \u200bfight as they prepare to celebrate the country\u2019s 250th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":597634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[291617,291615,64,63,291616,28436,22338,786,52956,785,85],"class_list":["post-597633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-250th-independence-celebrations","tag-andrew-callaghan","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-channel-5-instagram","tag-donald-trump-jr","tag-eric-trump","tag-fighting","tag-hunter-biden","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}