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Donald Trump turns 80 and celebrates with UFC cage fighting on the White House lawn

Donald Trump turns 80 and celebrates with UFC cage fighting on the White House lawn
France 24 Sunday 14 June 2026, 15:57 UTC By FRANCE24 1 min read
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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Donald Trump turns 80 and celebrates with UFC cage fighting on the White House lawn Issued on: Share President Donald Trump turned 80 on Sunday and was set to celebrate with one of the more surreal spectacles in both sports and the nation's capital: cage fighting on the White House lawn. We discuss it with our international affairs commentator Douglas Herbert. [Image text:] PARIS US President celebrates 8oth birthday withUFC event TRUMP'S WHITEHOUSE CAGE FIGHT 24 FRANCE
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