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US judge refuses to block Trump’s White House UFC birthday event 18%
By Associated Press60%
6/12/2026, 10:43:00 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 18 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Biased Writer Voice, and Fundamental Attribution Error, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 27.5% saturation with 100 hits. Analysis detected 734 faulty-reasoning hits from 363 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 32.9% and a BS Rank of 18% (18,125 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 82.80% of the article peer group.
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’s 250th anniversary – on Donald Trump’s 80th birthday.
US district judge Amit Mehta’s ruling allows organizers to use the White House lawn as the venue for Sunday’s planned UFC mixed martial arts event.
Attorneys from the non-profit Public Integrity Project sued to challenge Trump’s “UFC Freedom 250” event on behalf of an activist and a Vietnam war veteran.
The two plaintiffs also asked the court to block organizers from building anything for the event on White House grounds, including a 92ft-tall, 600-ton steel structure called The Claw.
The White House called the lawsuit a baseless attempt to prevent Trump from hosting an event that’s no different from many others routinely hosted at public forums in the nation’s capital.
Trump’s administration cannot issue permits for sporting events on the South Lawn or at the Lincoln Memorial, where UFC fighters planned to hold a press conference in front of fans on Friday, according to plaintiffs’ attorneys.
They noted that the event is a privately organized, for-profit business venture, with VIP packages costing millions of dollars.
“The President’s administration is granting the UFC an extraordinary business opportunity it may not lawfully grant, and in exchange the UFC is throwing an event at which its leadership, fighters, advertisers, and various celebrities will all pay tribute to the President on his birthday,” plaintiffs’ attorneys wrote.
The National Park Service and the interior department are named as defendants in the lawsuit.
In 2019, during his first term in office, Trump became the first sitting president to attend a UFC show.
Trump, a Republican, is a friend of the UFC president and CEO, Dana White.
Mehta was nominated to the bench by Barack Obama, a Democrat.
Mehta has presided over other Trump-related cases, including civil litigation accusing Trump of inciting a mob of his supporters to attack the US Capitol in 2021 on January 6, after he lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden, a Democrat.
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