The White House UFC Arena Is Just Like the Eiffel Tower

If you’ve been having a peaceful summer so far, either touching grass or finding inner peace, allow me to ruin it for you: The U.S. presidency now serves as a free advertising service for Dana White and the UFC. Sorry, had to. In March, the UFC announced a fight card, dubbed UFC Freedom 250, that will be hosted at the White House for Trump’s birthday. As of the end of May, construction for the arena is officially underway on the South Lawn, which will supposedly seat 4,500 spectators for Emperor Nero—I mean, President Trump’s big 80th birthday bash.

Thankfully, the President’s busy schedule of cognitive tests and failing to make a deal with Iran leaves time for updates on the arena via his TikTok account. On Wednesday, Trump’s posted a TikTok with the caption, “MAYBE WE’LL NEVER EVER TAKE IT DOWN,” in which he compares the White House’s new fighting arena to the Eiffel Tower and suggests plans to make the arena a permanent fixture.

“Many don’t know that in Paris, France, the Eiffel Tower—1889 it was built—it was supposed to be taken down immediately after the World’s Fair,” Trump said. “And then they said, ‘You know, we sort of like it. Let’s leave it up a little bit longer,’ and then they said, ‘Let’s leave it up longer and longer and longer.’ Well, they never took it down. And, you know, we’re building something in front of the White House that’s quite attractive to a lot of people. It’s gonna have the big UFC fight on June 14. And I’m looking at it, and maybe we’ll never, ever take it down.”

@realdonaldtrumpMAYBE WE’LL NEVER EVER TAKE IT DOWN♬ original sound – President Donald J Trump

Sure, Grandpa, the arena is just like the Eiffel Tower, except no one wants to drink rosé and eat croissants on a picnic blanket in front of two bloodied men and Joe Rogan. Let’s get you to bed. Also, I don’t think the Eiffel Tower has swarms of gnats, flies, and bats flying around, but again, anything is possible in Trump’s alternate reality. 

Trump currently boasts 16.6 million followers on the platform—which I know shouldn’t surprise me, considering the 78 million people who voted for him—but I’ll spare your pure eyes from the rest of his nonsensical posts. While his TikTok presence isn’t as completely batshit as his midnight rants on Truth, his account features the same signature slop, like AI-Trump dragging Stephen Colbert offstage after the final Late Show, and Real-Trump accepting that strange McDonald’s delivery from the DoorDash grandma.

Here’s hoping Trump’s wish to make the new UFC ring the American Eiffel Tower is just another inane comment that snuck its way past his filter. Although his Director of Communications, Stephen Chueng, seemed to support the idea on Twitter by posting a GIF of Jack Nicholson from The Departed, because of course Trump’s Director of Communications would use GIFs to communicate instead of words.

https://t.co/tKwDOHTde8 pic.twitter.com/Op5a0q0Kis

— Steven Cheung (@StevenCheung47) June 3, 2026