It’s been a tough week in politics and subsequent summer season is seemingly solely going to get rougher- actually. UFC celebrity Conor McGregor seems to have “positively” confirmed his participation in subsequent summer season’s UFC struggle that President Donald Trump and Dana White have proposed happen to commemorate the nation’s 250th birthday.
A TikTok video reveals McGregor confirming that he’ll happen on the cage preventing occasion, which is tentatively scheduled to happen on the White Home garden subsequent June or July, saying that he’s “keen, excited, and motivated.”
“I’m ecstatic,” he says within the clip. “The Mac is again, and what higher occasion than to grace the White Home garden?”
He described how he was excited that the occasion would possibly probably be pushed up from its proposed date of July 4th to June, jokingly suggesting that or not it’s moved up even earlier, describing the occasion as “my occasion.”
He additionally responded to the interviewer declaring that Musk had endorsed him (McGregor), calling Musk “an precise superhero,” “a fantastic man,” and “a credit score to humanity.”
When requested if he would possibly take part in Irish politics himself, the Irishman deferred, calling himself merely “a person of Eire.”
The occasion is tentatively scheduled to happen on July 4th, 2026 on the White Home Garden (though stories point out that it might happen as early as June). Whereas Trump had initially had mentioned that he needed “about 20,000 to 25,000 folks” to attend the occasion, CBS Information stories that White has mentioned that it’s going to possible be nearer to five,000 folks in precise attendance on account of safety considerations.
McGregor has not fought since 2021 when he broke his leg in a struggle with Dustin Poirier. Regardless of this, White has repeatedly instructed that he would really like McGregor to be on the occasion’s foremost card.