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Trump Takes In UFC Fight In NYC, Days After Tweeting Residency Change To Florida

This will be Trump's second sporting event in the span of a week. The president's connections to UFC go back to at least 2001.
President Donald Trump speaks to the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House. He's expected to spend the weekend in New York and take in a UFC fight.

Politics is often described as a rough and tumble business. But President Donald Trump is expected to witness an actual blood sport when he takes in a much-hyped mixed martial arts event on Saturday at Madison Square Garden in New York.

This will be Trump's second sporting event in the span of a week. On Sunday, he attended Game 5 of the in Washington, where he was met with boos

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