2026-06-12T10:00:08.485Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
- 唐纳德·特朗普总统是在麦迪逊广场花园的UFC赛事赛后亮相后，决定在白宫举办这场综合格斗赛事的。
- 这场耗资6000万美元的活动将在南草坪举办，此时特朗普正因与伊朗的战争和持续攀升的通胀率面临支持率低迷的困境。
- 部分盟友担忧这场盛大活动会加剧外界观感，认为特朗普专注于个人爱好项目而非履行执政职责。
本文由AI生成摘要，并经CNN编辑审核。
唐纳德·特朗普在权力巅峰时期决定在美国最知名官邸的南草坪举办一场UFC赛事。
在2024年总统大选获胜后不久，他前往麦迪逊广场花园参加终极格斗冠军赛，场面风光无限。
当他在亿万富翁和政客们的簇拥下走进赛场时，基德·罗克的《American Bad Ass》响彻全场——这些人三年前还曾认定他会彻底失败。明星们排着队与他握手，挤满场馆的年轻观众齐声高喊“USA”，而这群年轻人正是特朗普打造的新政治联盟的核心力量。
就在他沉浸在观众的欢呼声中时，这位当选总统敲定了在白宫举办一场更盛大、更精彩的赛事的想法。
“正是在那时，他正式决定要这么做，”一位了解此次私下商议过程的白宫官员说道。
19个月后，预计耗资6000万美元的赛事将在特朗普80岁生日当天举办。这位总统将于周日主持多场UFC比赛，当时占地广阔、高达87英尺的八角形擂台已经占据了南草坪的大片区域。
但这场被标榜为美国建国250周年庆祝活动的赛事，或许只是特朗普最初设想中唯一按计划推进的部分。
如今的他早已远离大选后那段高光时刻，本周末登场时，他的执政支持率正处于最低点：深陷一场不受欢迎的对外战争，同时努力遏制国内不断上涨的生活成本。民调显示，越来越多的美国人不认可他的执政表现，这威胁到共和党在中期选举中对权力的掌控，也暴露了特朗普基本盘的裂痕。
一些盟友担忧，这场UFC赛事非但不会成为彰显特朗普政绩的标志性活动，反而可能沦为他个人奢靡作风的最新且最显眼的象征——而正是这些作风导致了他支持率下滑。
“我会去，但我并不开心，”2024年曾背书特朗普、届时将担任赛事解说的知名播客主持人乔·罗根今年3月在谈及这场活动时表示，“这似乎不是一个明智的决定。”
尽管如此，这场活动还是在特朗普的“让美国再次伟大”（MAGA）基本盘内部引发了激烈的争抢，助手、盟友和支持者都试图争取入场资格。支持者表示，他们通过政府内部常规渠道遭遇了阻碍——一些高级官员甚至建议求票者直接向白宫办公厅主任苏西·瓦尔斯提出申请，或者尝试在Ticketmaster平台上碰碰运气。
“别抱希望了，”一位长期支持特朗普的盟友谈及仍在设法获取门票的人的胜算时说道，“这绝对是特朗普圈子里最紧俏的门票。”
两位了解相关讨论的人士透露，特朗普最初只是随口提及举办UFC赛事的想法，当时他的过渡团队正在 brainstorm 如何复刻竞选期间那些非传统但吸睛的活动，比如这位共和党候选人曾在威斯康星州驾驶印有竞选标识的垃圾卡车。而如今，总统最亲密的顾问们正津津乐道于白宫举办UFC赛事同样打破常规的影响力。
但这场备受瞩目的活动也凸显了特朗普对华盛顿一系列个人项目的执着，其中部分项目的政治效用引发了一些共和党人的担忧，他们担心这会影响中期选举。
特朗普目前正监督白宫大型宴会厅的扩建工程，推动建造一座250英尺高的“凯旋门”，并计划翻修当地一座高尔夫球场。除此之外，他还耗时数周重新粉刷了倒影池，并对白宫多个关键区域进行翻新，包括椭圆形办公室和玫瑰花园。
这些项目几乎都不受美国民众欢迎。而当一名联邦法官要求他的名字从肯尼迪中心移除时，他的努力遭遇了重大打击。但尽管面临严密审查——以及多起质疑其权限的诉讼——特朗普仍亲自参与这些项目的规划和执行。
这份个人热情也延伸到了UFC赛事上。这场活动筹备了数月，已经彻底改变了白宫南草坪的面貌。自去年11月麦迪逊广场花园之行以来，特朗普一直与UFC总裁、长期好友达纳·怀特密切合作，策划这场为期多天的庆祝活动，其中包括周六在白宫以南的椭圆广场举办的粉丝嘉年华。
根据CNN获得的邀请函副本，仅限会员参加的“行政部门俱乐部”将于周日为齐聚华盛顿的MAGA精英举办一场更为私密的派对。
比赛将在绰号“利爪”的南草坪巨型八角擂台举行，预计将有约4000名观众到场观赛。
“场地就在白宫正门前，”特朗普上个月在接受采访时自豪地说道，“这是前无古人，后无来者的盛事。”
在特朗普的圈子里，部分盟友希望这场盛大活动能帮助重振那些在2024年大选中助力他获胜、但之后逐渐疏远共和党的年轻男性群体。
“利用白宫的排场推广UFC，吸引新观众靠近宾夕法尼亚大道，这是一件很酷的事——很多人可能从未有过这样的机会，”白宫通讯主任、特朗普长期顾问史蒂文·张表示，他此前曾负责UFC的公关工作。“总统是一名真诚的格斗迷，他了解赛事阵容，也清楚选手的战绩。”
除了罗根之外，曾在2024年特朗普竞选活动中发挥关键作用的保守派播客主和网红也将出席赛事，其中包括YouTube博主Nelk Boys和商人帕特里克·贝特-戴维。
承担这场赛事约6000万美元费用的UFC已经掌控了大部分门票。两位白宫官员透露，剩余门票将由特朗普亲自挑选其工作人员中的受邀者。进一步体现他对这场赛事重视程度的是，特朗普的内阁成员和第一夫人梅拉尼娅·特朗普预计都将出席。
然而，即便宣传铺天盖地，这场被特朗普标榜为“地球上最精彩的表演”的活动，能否在其最忠实的支持者之外产生共鸣仍未可知。
2024年曾热情支持他的男性和年轻选民中，已有不少人倒戈。在持续的生活成本担忧和对伊朗战争的不满情绪下，他们对特朗普的怀疑与日俱增。
特朗普多次淡化这场冲突对国内的影响，将不断攀升的通胀轻描淡写为他追求更大国家安全过程中的次要副作用。本周的一项民调显示，仅有16%的美国人认为举办这场明星云集的活动是恰当的——而就在几天前，特朗普再次淡化了推高日常商品价格的通胀问题。
曾参与创办UFC前身赛事的创始人之一阿特·戴维表示，在这样的背景下，一夜的UFC赛事不太可能缓解许多支持者心中的普遍担忧。
戴维年轻时曾与特朗普作为纽约军事学院的学员同住一室，他告诉CNN，他在2016年、2020年和2024年都支持并投票给特朗普。他对特朗普将UFC带到南草坪的举动表示赞赏，称这为这项曾多年面临政治和文化反对的运动带来了合法性——其中包括已故参议员约翰·麦凯恩将其称为“人类斗鸡比赛”。
但和其他人一样，他后来也对特朗普的对外纠葛感到担忧。这位长期共和党选民表示，与伊朗的战争违背了特朗普最初承诺的避免前任总统的失误、不开启任何新冲突的立场。特朗普随后暗示可能武力占领古巴的言论，更是加深了这种失望情绪。
“他在竞选期间发表过许多关于不发动战争的声明，我认为这些声明既可行又有吸引力，”戴维说道，“所以我对他在2月28日决定与伊朗开战感到不满，我不确定这是一个明智的决定。”
戴维补充道，在特朗普试图重塑白宫场地和全球力量平衡的过程中，他看到了同代人普遍存在的一个主题：越来越关注自己将留下怎样的历史遗产。
“他现在非常注重个人遗产，”他说，“但不需要天才也能明白，像这类对外纠葛，你必须提前想好自己想要走到哪一步，或者想要达成什么目标。”
CNN的伊莎贝尔·库尔舒德扬对本文亦有贡献。
How Trump decided to host a UFC fight at the White House
2026-06-12T10:00:08.485Z / CNN
- President Donald Trump decided to host a UFC fight at the White House after his post-election appearance at a UFC fight at Madison Square Garden.
- The $60 million event on the South Lawn comes as Trump faces low approval ratings amid a war with Iran and rising inflation.
- Some allies worry the spectacle will exacerbate perceptions Trump is focused on personal pet projects rather than governing.
AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.
Donald Trump was at the height of his power when he decided to stage a UFC fight on the South Lawn of America’s most famous address.
Fresh off his 2024 presidential win, he made a triumphant trip to Madison Square Garden for an Ultimate Fighting Championship event.
Kid Rock’s “American Bad Ass” blared as he entered the arena flanked by billionaires and politicians who had left him for dead just three years earlier. Celebrities lined up to shake his hand. Chants of “USA” rained down from a crowd filled with the young men who Trump had made the backbone of his new political coalition.
And as he basked in the ovation, the president-elect determined the White House should host an even bigger and better spectacle.
“That’s when he officially decided he wanted to do it,” said one White House official with knowledge of the private deliberations.
Nineteen months and an estimated $60 million later, Trump will get his wish on his 80th birthday. The president is set to preside over a slate of UFC fights on Sunday held in the hulking, 87-foot octagon that now consumes much of the South Lawn.
But the event itself — billed as a celebration of America’s 250th anniversary — is perhaps the only element of Trump’s original vision that’s gone to plan.
Far removed from those post-election highs, he will take the stage this weekend at the weakest point of his presidency, mired in an unpopular war abroad and struggling to contain rising costs at home. A growing majority of Americans disapprove of his performance, polls show, threatening the GOP’s grip on power in the midterms and exposing cracks in Trump’s base.
And now, instead of a legacy-making manifestation of Trump’s success, some allies worry, the UFC fight risks becoming just the latest and biggest symbol of the personal excesses that have contributed to his unpopularity.
“I’ll be there, but I’m not thrilled about it,” Joe Rogan, the popular podcaster who endorsed Trump in 2024 and will commentate the fights, said of the event in March. “It just doesn’t seem like a wise idea.”
Still, the event has also prompted extraordinary jockeying within Trump’s MAGA base, with aides, allies and supporters all trying to score access. Supporters described running into roadblocks with their usual connections inside the administration — with some senior officials even advising ticket-seekers to take their asks straight to White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, or just try their luck on Ticketmaster.
“Forget it,” one longtime Trump ally said of the odds facing those still trying to get into the event. “It’s the hottest ticket in Trumpworld by far.”
Trump first casually mentioned the idea of a UFC fight when his transition team was brainstorming ways to replicate the nontraditional but attention-grabbing events they staged on the campaign trail, like when the GOP nominee drove a campaign-branded garbage truck in Wisconsin, two people familiar with the discussions said. And now the president’s closest advisers are relishing how a UFC fight at the White House is similarly pushing the envelope.
But the high-profile event underscores Trump’s fixation on a slate of personal projects across Washington, DC, the political utility of which has prompted concerns among some Republicans worried about the midterms.
The president is overseeing construction of a massive White House ballroom, pushing for the creation of a 250-foot “triumphal arch” and seeking to redevelop a local golf course. Those come on top of a weekslong repainting of the Reflecting Pool and several smaller efforts to make over key parts of the White House, including the Oval Office and Rose Garden.
Few of the projects have proven popular with Americans. And his efforts suffered a major blow when a federal judge said his name had to be removed from the Kennedy Center. But despite the scrutiny — and a slew of lawsuits challenging his authority — Trump has maintained an intimate role in the planning and execution of those undertakings.
That personal enthusiasm has extended to the UFC fight, which has been months in the making and has transformed the White House’s South Lawn. Trump worked closely with UFC head and longtime friend Dana White since that November Madison Square Garden appearance to plot out a multiday celebration that will include a Saturday fan festival on the Ellipse south of the White House.
The members-only club Executive Branch, meanwhile, is slated to host a far more exclusive party on Sunday for the MAGA elite descending on Washington, according to a copy of the invitation obtained by CNN.
The fights will take place in the massive South Lawn octagon nicknamed “the Claw,” with roughly 4,000 people in attendance.
“It’s right at the front door to the White House,” Trump boasted in an interview last month. “It’s never happened before, and you’ll never see it again.”
Within Trump’s orbit, some allies hope that the spectacle will help reenergize some of the young men who helped power his 2024 victory but have since partially drifted away from the GOP.
“It’s a cool thing to use the trappings of the White House to promote the UFC and bring a new audience closer [to Pennsylvania Ave.], something that many might never have the opportunity to do,” said White House communications director and longtime Trump adviser Steven Cheung, who previously ran communications for the UFC. “And the president is an honest, true fan. He knows the fight cards, he knows their stats.”
In addition to Rogan, conservative podcasters and influencers who played key roles in promoting Trump’s 2024 campaign are expected to be at the fight, including the YouTuber Nelk Boys and businessman Patrick Bet-David.
The UFC, which is footing the roughly $60 million bill for the event, has retained control of most of the tickets. Trump is personally selecting who among his staff gets the rest, two White House officials said. In a further sign of the importance he’s assigned to the fight, Trump’s Cabinet and first lady Melania Trump are expected to attend.
Yet even with all the hype, it remains unclear whether an event that the president has touted as “the greatest show on Earth” will resonate beyond his most devoted supporters.
He’s bled support among men and younger voters who enthusiastically backed him in 2024 but have since grown more skeptical amid continued cost-of-living concerns and frustration with the war with Iran.
The president has repeatedly downplayed concerns about the domestic impact of the conflict, brushing off rising inflation as a minor side effect to his pursuit of greater national security. One poll this week found just 16% of Americans believed it was appropriate to hold the star-studded event, which comes days after Trump again downplayed the rising inflation making everyday goods more expensive.
Against that backdrop, one night of UFC fighting is unlikely to allay the broader concerns weighing on many of his supporters, said Art Davie, one of the original founders of the tournament that eventually became UFC.
Davie, who also once roomed with Trump as young cadets at the New York Military Academy, told CNN that he supported and voted for the president in 2016, 2020 and 2024. He applauded Trump’s bid to bring the UFC to the South Lawn, hailing it as a legitimizing event for a sport that once faced years of political and cultural opposition, including the late Sen. John McCain’s characterization of it as “human cockfighting.”
But like others, he’s since grown concerned by Trump’s foreign entanglements. The Iran war amounts to a betrayal of the president’s initial pledge to avoid the missteps of his predecessors and not start any new conflicts, said Davie, a longtime Republican voter. Trump’s subsequent suggestions that he may take Cuba by force have only deepened that disappointment.
“He made a number of campaign statements about no wars that I found to be viable and appealing,” Davie said. “So I’m not happy that he decided on Feb. 28 to pursue a war with Iran, and I’m not sure that’s been a good decision.”
In Trump’s attempts to reshape both the White House grounds and the global balance of power, Davie added, he sees a theme that’s common among his contemporaries: An increasing focus on the legacy that they’re going to leave behind.
“He’s very much legacy-oriented at this point,” he said. “But it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that with something like these foreign entanglements, you have to figure out ahead of time how far you want to go or where you want to go.”
CNN’s Isabelle Khurshudyan contributed to this report.
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