Greene Publicly Criticizes Trump White House UFC Event Plan
The public break between Greene and Trump over the White House lawn UFC event illustrates how former allies can become vocal critics once outside elected office.
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who lost her House seat and left Congress in January 2025, stated publicly on NewsNation on or around June 13, 2026, that she does not believe UFC fights belong on the White House lawn, where President Trump had scheduled seven bouts to mark his 80th birthday, according to reporting by The Guardian dated June 13, 2026. Greene said, per The Guardian's direct quotation: 'I think UFC fights are great. I enjoy watching them, but to be honest with you, I don't really think they belong on the White House lawn.' Greene did not call for the event to be canceled and did not allege any legal violation.
Greene had been among Trump's most consistent congressional defenders during his first and second terms, voting in alignment with Trump-backed positions at a high rate per congressional voting records archived at congress.gov. The specific vote-alignment percentage for the 118th Congress is publicly available via ProPublica's congressional vote tracker. Her post-congressional public criticism of a White House decision represents a documented shift in her public posture toward the administration.
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The White House had not issued a formal public statement responding to Greene's remarks as of the publication of The Guardian's report on June 13, 2026. The UFC, a privately held mixed martial arts promotion, has held events at unconventional venues in the past, though a White House lawn event would be without recorded precedent in publicly available White House event logs maintained by the National Archives. No federal expenditure figures for staging the event have been released in any USASpending.gov record identified as of this writing.
The legal authority for using the White House grounds for a private commercial sporting event, and whether any federal funds would subsidize production costs, remains unknown. The documents that would answer those questions include any General Services Administration facility-use agreements, any White House Communications Agency support orders, and any UFC contract or licensing agreement filed with relevant federal authorities. No such documents have been made publicly available as of June 13, 2026.