{"id":83635,"date":"2026-06-14T07:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T11:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=83635"},"modified":"2026-06-14T07:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T11:40:14","slug":"fighting-match-at-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/fighting-match-at-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Match At White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>President\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">Donald Trump<\/span>\u00a0celebrates turning 80 on Sunday with a\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">showstopping birthday spectacle<\/span>\u00a0that once would have seemed unfathomable: a\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">cage-fighting show<\/span>\u00a0on the storied\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">South Lawn<\/span> of the White House.\u00a0This week, the hard realities of the office have threatened to overshadow the ostentatious\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">UFC mixed martial arts<\/span>\u00a0extravaganza, where combatants sealed inside a wire-mesh octagon try to punch, kick, chop and pummel each other into submission.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, about a mile from Trump\u2019s birthday bash, <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">crews pried the president\u2019s name off the Kennedy Center<\/span> after a judge ruled naming it after Trump had gone too far.\u00a0Regardless, the president will walk out of the White House and be surrounded by Cabinet leaders, top administration officials, Republican lawmakers and 4,000-plus spectators screaming themselves hoarse in a temporary arena under \u201c\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\">The Claw<\/span>,\u201d a spaceship-like metal arch fitted with lighting, sound equipment and large screens. Thousands more will be watching on big screens from the nearby Ellipse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0celebrates turning 80 on Sunday with a\u00a0showstopping birthday spectacle\u00a0that once would have seemed unfathomable: a\u00a0cage-fighting show\u00a0on the.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-83635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83636,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83635\/revisions\/83636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}