‘kim Jong Un-level Insanity’: Trump Plans To Build A 100k-seat Stadium Near White House To Host A Ufc Fight On His Birthday

President Donald Trump says he plans to build a 100,000-seat stadium adjacent nan White House to big a UFC conflict connected his birthday.

The president confirmed nan MMA arena past year, though his critics person branded nan scheme to build an arena for nan arena arsenic “Kim Jong Un-level insanity.”

“They are going to put up thing that’s really amazing,” Trump told reporters. “It's really having to do pinch our awesome 250th birthday, wherever we’re having truthful galore awesome things.

“UFC’s coming, arsenic you know, successful beforehand of nan White House, wherever they’re building, literally, a stadium. We’re gonna person complete 100,000 people. This is gonna person a batch of…I won’t moreover opportunity really galore group because I deliberation it tin group a grounds for racing. It’s gonna beryllium very, very important.”

Trump made nan announcement while holding a gathering successful nan Oval Office astir his executive bid to bring an IndyCar thoroughfare race to nan capital.

However, Trump’s critics person slammed nan plans to build nan 100,000-seat arena.

“Do nan American group person a say? Who is paying for this?” 1 X personification asked.

“That is what America needs,” different personification wrote connected X. “Right now. No Epstein. No war. No dying work members. Let’s talk ballroom.”

“This is Kim Jong Un-level insanity,” writer John Pavlovitz wrote connected X.

The task would beryllium yet different awesome existent property task undertaken astatine nan White House by nan president.

During his 2nd term, Trump demolished nan East Wing successful bid to make measurement for a $400 cardinal ballroom and paved complete the White House’s roseate garden. He has besides teased plans to build a immense ceremonial arch for America’s 250th birthday.

Much of nan readying astir his day UFC fight, which will beryllium held connected June 14, has been kept nether wraps, though.

“We’ve been truthful secretive astir this,” UFC CEO Dana White told iFL TV. “I’ve sewage boards, which I’m judge you’ve seen, hanging successful our War Room. This isn’t moreover connected nan boards.

“We bring successful a whiteboard, we constitute nan fights down, and past erase them each clip we person a matchmaking meeting,” he continued. “Usually, matchmaking meetings are each Tuesday. They’ve been each time for nan past 2 weeks.”

“I’ll denote nan full paper this week,” White added. “The paper is done.”

Conor McGregor claimed successful October 2025 that an quality by him astatine nan conflict was a “done deal,” moreover going truthful acold arsenic to opportunity that it was “signed.”

Days later, White confirmed that nan line-up had not yet been finalised and that negotiations were still ongoing.

Jon Jones has besides suggested that he may make an quality astatine nan fight.

“I’m successful negotiations pinch nan UFC astir this White House thing,” Jones said. “I’m a very, very, very proud American and I cannot hold to correspond 1 much time, truthful let’s spot what happens.”