2026-06-12
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Each week here in the President's Path we walk back along the latest actions of President Trump and his administration.
This week we're looking ahead to President Trump's birthday celebration and the World Cup.
Hey guys, very good to see you again on what is a big week for President Trump.
He'll be celebrating his birthday this weekend in pretty unique style.
Indeed, it is the 80th birthday of President Donald J. Trump, coming just a couple
of weeks before the 250th birthday of America, of course, the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
So he's rolling a lot of that together into not quite a birthday bash,
but a birthday bout at the White House, UFC Freedom 250. Bernd, you know all about it.
I did just now, before we started recording, I just came from the venue.
It's So it's not something I ever thought I would see at the White House.
The claw, the metal contraption that goes over the octagon, it's about 92 feet tall, weighs 600 tons.
They actually had to flatten out part of the South Lawn to be able to set it in place.
Yeah, it's quite a remarkable scene, controversial, but it's not just not something I think anyone
really ever expected to see kind of towering over the White House here in DC.
Yeah, I was standing on a rooftop.