Taking a page from Imperial Rome's tradition of bread and circuses to entertain and mollify the populace, President Donald Trump and Ultimate Fighting Championship President and CEO Dana White are moving ahead with a proposed UFC match on the White House grounds during next year's July 4 Semiquincentennial celebration. The president was "dead serious" about hosting the fight when he raised the issue earlier this summer, said White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt last month, and now details of the planned match are beginning to come into sharper focus.

The match is "absolutely going to happen," White said to The Associated Press on Tuesday. "Think about that, the 250th birthday of the United States of America, the UFC will be on the White House south lawn live on CBS." While Trump a

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