Donald Trump celebrates his 80th birthday in a typically forceful style on Sunday, as the oldest US president ever to take office holds a bloody cage match on the White House lawn.<\/p>\n
The unprecedented \u201cUFC Freedom 250\u201d event will see 14 Ultimate Fighting Championship stars beat each other to a pulp in a giant arena called The Claw.<\/p>\n
Costing US$60 million, it is linked to this year\u2019s festivities for the 250th anniversary of US independence, but it also happens to fall on the day that Trump enters his ninth decade.<\/p>\n
Critics have derided the violent extravaganza in America\u2019s most famous backyard, saying it is in poor taste during a war with Iran that has sent prices soaring for ordinary people.<\/p>\n
Trump may clinch a long-sought peace deal with Iran on his big day, although Tehran has cast doubt on that timing.<\/p>\n
The billionaire president, who has deep ties with a sport whose young male fans reflect his own political base, defended the UFC event as a unique spectacle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump celebrates his 80th birthday in a typically forceful style on Sunday, as the oldest US president…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,60315,254236,303848,12,81666,801,3319,303849,303850,105515,3,48469,229115,6493,21,19,22,20,25,24,3123],"class_list":["post-702884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-axios","tag-ciryl-gane","tag-craig-borsari","tag-donald-trump","tag-george-washington-university","tag-iran","tag-joe-biden","tag-lincoln-memorial","tag-michael-chandler","tag-national-mall","tag-news","tag-oval-office","tag-peter-loge","tag-ufc","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}