Marjorie Taylor Greene criticizes Trump’s 80th birthday UFC event on White House lawn | Marjorie Taylor Greene
Marjorie Taylor Greene criticized Donald Trump’s plan to hold a UFC fight on the White House lawn as the president prepares to host seven fights on Sunday.
The former right-wing Republican congressman, once a fierce supporter of Trump and an enemy of him toward the end of his term, he told NewsNation The place is not suitable for a mixed martial arts event.
“I think UFC fights are great. I enjoy watching them, but I honestly don’t think they belong on the White House lawn,” Greene said in an interview published Saturday.
“And I don’t think American taxpayer dollars should be paying for that. There are a lot of other important things we need to pay for.”
He added: “But I hope it will be a great event and of course I always wish the president well, I wish everyone well, so we’ll see how the event goes.”
The UFC bout is being held on Trump’s 80th birthday, but the government has declared it a celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States. Dana White, CEO of UFC in question The incident was Trump’s idea.
Greene represented Georgia in Congress until she resigned in January. A far-right, QAnon-adjacent Republican, he was a staunch supporter of Trump but had a public falling out after falling out with the president after criticizing the government’s handling of the files on Jeffrey Epstein. Greene on Wednesday he told CNN that lawmakers were “traitors” for not releasing more documents about Epstein.
Lawyers for the Public Integrity Project, a nonprofit organization, had filed a lawsuit to stop the UFC fight from happening, but a federal judge on Friday said the event could go ahead. Earlier this month a Reuters/Ipsos poll It found that only 16% of Americans found the event appropriate.
