Maybe he just likes the attention?
Donald Trump braved a visit to his now-former home of New York City on Saturday night to check out UFC 244 at Madison Square Garden. And New Yorkers, being the willful and opinionated bunch that we are, let Trump have it with a chorus of boos.
It doesn’t sound quite as bad or dramatic as the boos Trump recently faced at the Nationals-Astros World Series game. The booing stood out especially clearly in that earlier incident because Trump’s sudden appearance at the ball game was bookended on both sides by shout-outs to members of the U.S. military.
There’s also the fact that Trump is an established fan of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He’s the first U.S. president to sit in the audience for a UFC match, and he attended at the invitation of Dana White, the organization’s president and a vocal Trump supporter. Read more…
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