Trump Plans 100K-Seat Stadium for UFC Fight on His Birthday, June 14

President Donald Trump says he plans to build a 100,000-seat stadium near the White House to host a UFC fight on his birthday, June 14, 2026, Owen Scott reported for The Independent.

Critics have sharply questioned Trump's UFC White House proposal. (Photo: UFC)

The president confirmed the MMA event last year, although critics have branded the plan to build an arena for the event as “Kim Jong Un-level insanity.”

No engineer has come forward to say that such a structure could be completed in three months.

“They are going to put up something that’s really amazing. It’s really having to do with our great 250th birthday, where we’re having so many wonderful things. UFC’s coming, as you know, in front of the White House, where they’re building, literally, a stadium,” Trump said.

Trump made the announcement during a meeting in the Oval Office about his executive order to bring an IndyCar street race to Washington. Critics, however, have sharply questioned the proposal.

“Do the American people have a say? Who is paying for this?” one X user asked.

“That is what America needs right now. No Epstein. No war. No dying service members. Let’s talk ballroom,” another user wrote on X.

Author John Pavlovitz also criticized the plan on X, calling it “Kim Jong Un-level insanity.”