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Trump’s White House Cage Fight Suffers Humiliating A-List Snub After Concert Fiasco

A-listers are reportedly snubbing the White House cage fight.

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The president will be hosting the first-ever UFC fight card at the White House on June 14 to mark Trump’s 80th birthday. And according to a new report, A-list invitees are snubbing the event.

According to Vanity Fair, while UFC head Dana White had listed a number of top celebrities who had been invited to the event, none have confirmed their attendance.

“In Washington, there’s been a monthslong frenzy over access to the June 14 event, with even the capital’s most powerful denizens frantically jockeying for a spot. The White House, I’m told, has fielded an onslaught of requests from top-dollar donors, lobbyists, and members of Congress clamoring for seats,” the report said.

However, while White had told Time magazine that he had invited “Adam Sandler, Guy Ritchie, Tom Brady, Jared Leto, Jason Statham, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and Mario Lopez” to the event, none of them have confirmed they will attend.

Per the magazine’s report, “representatives for Sandler, Leto, and Lopez say they won’t be either. Reps for the others did not respond to multiple requests for comment. The White House and UFC did not respond to requests for comment about the guest list.”

And there may be a reason for this, along with the implosion of the 250th birthday concert series that had been announced earlier, and will be replaced by a more traditional Trump rally.

“The caution speaks to a growing trend in Trump’s second term. As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday, a monumental milestone in the nation’s history, the events scheduled to ring in the semiquincentennial are increasingly seen as tainted by the tawdriness, hyperpartisanship, and self-obsession that have been hallmarks of Trump’s political career,” the Vanity Fair piece said.

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Stephen Silver is an award-winning journalist, essayist and film critic, and contributor to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Broad Street Review and Splice Today. The co-founder of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, Stephen lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife and two sons. Stephen has authored thousands of articles that focus on politics, technology, and the economy.

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