2026-06-10T21:05:49.938Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/10/politics/trump-ufc-fight
据特朗普政府提交的法庭文件显示，白宫举办的 UFC 赛事将耗资超过6000万美元。
这场赛事将在特朗普80岁生日当天举行，预计将吸引约12.5万名观众，需要494个移动厕所以及大规模安保设施。
有诉讼主张，该赛事声称是为纪念美国建国250周年而非特朗普的生日，以此规避环境审查。
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举办一场可容纳10万余人的电视直播体育赛事，且无现成场馆基础设施，本身就是一项庞大的工程。而在白宫举办则更增添了诸多复杂的后勤难题。
特朗普政府周三提交的法庭文件显示，定于本周及周末举行的终极格斗冠军赛（UFC）相关活动耗资将超过6000万美元。其中包括餐饮、该赛事标志性的“八角笼”擂台，以及为现场观看南草坪赛事和在椭圆广场收看电视直播的观众准备的多达494个移动厕所。
“这是一场高度复杂、涉及多方面的活动，众多公共和私人实体在相当长一段时间内进行了精心规划，”白宫管理与行政办公室主任约书亚·费希尔在一份宣誓声明中表示。该声明作为一起诉讼的一部分提交，这起诉讼要求推迟赛事举办，直至完成环境审查和其他许可程序。
距离赛事举办仅剩数日，当天恰逢唐纳德·特朗普总统的80岁生日，预计观众人数大幅增长。2025年6月，特朗普在爱荷华州博览会场地宣布举办这场赛事时，将其标榜为纪念美国建国250周年的庆祝活动，当时他预测将有“2万至2.5万人”参加。新的法庭文件显示，预计观众人数约为12.5万人，另有7.5万人申请了门票。
文件还更广泛地披露了UFC投入的重大筹备工作和资金——得到了联邦政府的支持——包括从零开始搭建复杂的“八角笼”舞台，规划多日活动流程，最终呈现这场将于周日晚由总统、第一夫人及高级官员到场观看的电视直播赛事。
费希尔在声明中表示，超过6000万美元的成本包括“为预计的4000名南草坪观众和12万余名椭圆广场观众准备的大量易腐食品”。
费希尔称，UFC将承担“制作、人力、搭建和推广成本”，而联邦政府将提供“应急设备和服务，包括急救/医疗服务、执法和安保”。
背后的诉讼主张称，这场赛事在白宫举办是非法的，因为官员们援引了一项联邦规则，即美国建国250周年前后的活动可豁免遵守某些许可规定。他们表示，UFC赛事并非为纪念美国建国，而是旨在庆祝特朗普的生日。因此，官员和赛事的私人组织者在推进赛事前，需要完成普通的监管程序，比如进行环境评估。
美国地区法官阿米特·P·梅塔是前总统巴拉克·奥巴马任命的，目前尚未安排听证会，但他可能会在未来几日下令双方当面陈述观点。挑战这场赛事的弗吉尼亚州居民曾要求法院在周四前对他们的请求作出裁决。
赛事的后勤规划甚至在特朗普在爱荷华州宣布举办赛事前就已启动，包括聘请外部制作公司、向国家公园管理局提交许可申请、设计和安装定制的“爪形”拱形照明结构、协调安保和移动厕所，以及据文件所述，协调政府最高层级的日程安排。
费希尔在宣誓声明中表示，现在叫停这项工作“将对所有相关方造成过高的成本”。
UFC将于周五在林肯纪念堂举办新闻发布会和选手称重活动，周六在椭圆广场举行正式的选手称重仪式及其他活动，随后于周日在白宫南草坪举行主赛事。根据一份逐小时日程安排，活动包括军乐队表演、扎克·布朗乐队的演出、“黄金骑士”飞行表演、克莱兹代尔马队、赛事对阵表本身，以及10分钟的烟花压轴表演。
赛事的装载和搭建工作于5月20日启动，需要在紧凑的时间线内协调推进，且受到严格的安保限制。费希尔表示，每天都有20至30辆满载UFC设备（如场地搭建基础设施和其他技术材料）的卡车在白宫场地安装前接受安检。他补充说，这需要700至900名“具备搭建各环节专业知识”的分包商。
现场已搭建了广泛的安保设施，包括防攀爬围栏、自行车架路障，以及美国特勤局的安检设施。国家公园管理局的指导方针要求每300名观众至少配备一个移动厕所，国家公园管理局签发的许可证显示，规划文件显示林肯纪念堂附近至少设有116个移动厕所，椭圆广场附近至少设有350个。
快速搭建的基础设施预计也将迅速拆除。尽管特朗普曾提议将南草坪的“爪形”照明结构保留下来，但费希尔表示，“活动结束后将立即拆除”，规划文件显示，拆除工作——包括移除广播设备、路障、照明设施、舞台搭建、餐饮设施和防攀爬围栏——将于周一清晨启动，至6月23日完成。
这场赛事并非完全没有先例，但白宫从未举办过如此规模的电视直播体育赛事。奥巴马政府时期，白宫曾举办过“南草坪西南偏南”音乐节和BET赞助的音乐会。拜登政府时期，白宫还举办过埃尔顿·约翰音乐会录制活动和溜冰场。
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Inside the ‘highly complex’ preparations for Trump’s UFC fight: $60M for staging, port-a-potties and other logistics
2026-06-10T21:05:49.938Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/10/politics/trump-ufc-fight
A UFC fight at the White House will cost more than $60 million, according to court documents filed by the Trump administration.
The event on Trump’s 80th birthday will draw roughly 125,000 guests and require 494 port-a-potties and extensive security infrastructure.
A lawsuit argues the event is bypassing environmental reviews by claiming it honors America’s 250th birthday rather than Trump’s.
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Building a televised sporting event accommodating more than 100,000 people without any existing arena infrastructure is a massive production. Doing so at the White House adds significant logistical complications.
Court documents submitted by the Trump administration on Wednesday show the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) events scheduled this week and through the weekend will cost more than $60 million. That includes food, the brand’s signature “octagon” cage and as many as 494 port-a-potties trucked in for the crowd watching the event live on the South Lawn and via telecast at the Ellipse.
“This is a highly complex, multi-faceted Event that has been carefully planned by a multitude of public and private entities over a significant period,” White House management and administration director Joshua Fisher said in a sworn declaration, submitted as part of a lawsuit that seeks to delay the event until it goes through an environmental review and other permitting processes.
With days to go until fight night, which coincides with President Donald Trump’s 80th birthday, the expected crowd size has grown substantially. At a June 2025 appearance at the Iowa state fairgrounds, where Trump announced plans for the fight that he billed as a celebration commemorating the country’s 250th birthday, he predicted it would bring “20-25,000 people.” The new court documents show roughly 125,000 guests are expected, and that another 75,000 people requested tickets.
The documents more broadly reveal a major undertaking and investment by the UFC — bolstered by support from the federal government — to build the elaborate “octagon” stage from the ground up and plan multiple days of programming, culminating in the televised fight that will be attended by the president, first lady and top officials on Sunday night.
In his declaration, Fisher said the more than $60 million cost includes “a substantial volume of perishable food items for the anticipated 4,000 South Lawn guests and over 120,000 Ellipse guests.”
The UFC is responsible for “production, labor, construction, and promotion costs,” while the federal government is providing “emergency equipment and services, including first aid/medical services, law enforcement, and security,” Fisher said.
The underlying lawsuit argues that the event is being unlawfully held at the White House because officials are leaning on a federal rule that exempts events around America’s 250th birthday from having to follow certain permitting regulations. The UFC event, they say, is not being held in honor of the country’s founding but is instead intended to celebrate Trump’s birthday. As a result, officials and the event’s private organizers needed to jump through ordinary regulatory hoops, like conducting an environmental assessment, before moving ahead with it.
US District Judge Amit P. Mehta, an appointee of former President Barack Obama, has not set a hearing, though he could order both sides to appear before him in coming days to make their arguments in person. The Virginia residents challenging the event had asked the court to make a decision on their request by Thursday.
Logistical planning for the event began even before Trump’s Iowa announcement, with outside production companies hired, permitting applications submitted to the National Park Service, design and installation of a custom “Claw” arched lighting structure, wrangling of security and port-a-potties and, according to the documents, the coordination of schedules at the highest levels of government.
To halt that effort now, Fisher said in a sworn declaration, would “impose exorbitant costs on all parties involved.”
UFC will host a press conference and face-offs at the Lincoln Memorial on Friday, and a ceremonial participant weigh-in and other events on Saturday at the Ellipse, before the main event on the White House South Lawn takes places Sunday. Entertainment, per an hour-by-hour schedule, includes military bands, a performance by Zac Brown Band, a Golden Knights flyover, Clydesdales, the fight card itself and a ten-minute fireworks finale.
The load-in and build process for the event, which began May 20, has required a coordinated effort on a tight timeline with significant security constraints. Every day, 20 to 30 trucks filled with UFC equipment like staging infrastructure and other technical material were screened before installation on White House grounds, Fisher said. And that, he added, has required 700 to 900 subcontractors “with specialized knowledge associated with each element of the build.”
There has been setup of extensive security features, including anti-scale fencing, bike-rack barricades, and US Secret Service screening facilities. Guidance from the National Park Service requires at least one portable toilet per every 300 guests, a permit issued by NPS says, and planning documents say there will be at least 116 port-a-potties by the Lincoln Memorial and at least 350 near the Ellipse.
The quickly installed infrastructure is expected to be removed just as swiftly. Even though Trump floated keeping the Claw in place on the South Lawn, Fisher said it “will be disassembled immediately after the event concludes” and planning documents suggest that that process — along with efforts to remove broadcast equipment, barricades, lighting, staging, food and beverage setup and anti-scale fencing — will begin early Monday morning and conclude by June 23.
The production isn’t entirely without precedent, though there has never been a televised sporting event at this scale at the White House. During the Obama administration, the White House hosted a “South by South Lawn” festival and a BET-sponsored concert. And in the Biden administration, the White House was the setting for an Elton John concert taping and an ice rink.
This story has been updated with additional reporting.
CNN’s Devan Cole and Aileen Graef contributed to this report.
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