President Donald Trump is marking his 80th birthday Sunday with one of the more surreal spectacles in both sports and the nation's capital: cage fighting on the White House lawn.
Against the backdrop of a 3-month-old war with Iran that’s been broadly unpopular with Americans and has rattled global oil markets and with inflation spiked to the highest level since April 2023, the White House — long known as the people’s house and a symbol of American democracy — opened its backyard Sunday night to stage a bruising UFC card on the South Lawn.
