US President Donald Trump on Sunday celebrated his 80th birthday with a seven-bout UFC cage-fighting spectacle on the White House South Lawn, an event attended by more than 4,000 spectators and broadcast as a fusion of politics, sport and military pageantry. The “UFC Freedom 250” card, staged under a 30-metre, 600-tonne cage and estimated to have cost $60 million, featured knockouts in every bout and concluded well past midnight as Trump, UFC president Dana White and family members watched from ringside.

The evening opened with a Color Guard from the military district of Washington and a rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner by the Zac Brown Band, followed by a rare Super Delta formation flyover by the Blue Angels and Thunderbirds. Trump and White emerged from the White House to a scene the Guardian described as “equal parts campaign rally, state ceremony and fight night,” with former champions Dominick Cruz, Chris Weidman and Michael Bisping joining broadcaster Brendan Fitzgerald in a studio desk that doubled as a patriotic segment.

Hours earlier, the White House announced a memorandum of understanding with Iran, framing the spectacle as a display of both diplomatic outreach and martial vigour. Critics, however, condemned the use of the executive mansion’s South Lawn for a commercial sporting event, with Austrian outlet Der Standard calling it a “desecration” of the building.

Fighters themselves added to the controversy: after his victory, heavyweight Josh Hokit told the crowd Michelle Obama is a man, while organisers paid purses in “Trumpcoin,” a cryptocurrency issued by the Trump Organization. Republican lawmakers praised the event as a celebration of American strength, but opposition figures labelled it a stunt that trivialised the presidency.

The spectacle, which ran two hours late because of a storm forecast, ended with a bloody heavyweight finish and a flyover by the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds, leaving the White House lawn littered with broken glass and the political world divided over whether the birthday party had crossed a constitutional line.

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