According to France 24, President Trump celebrated his eightieth birthday at the White House with an unconventional venue—a UFC fight in the garden. The event, priced at sixty million dollars, was part of broader celebrations marking America's two-hundred-fiftieth anniversary. The timing proved symbolic: that same day, Trump administration officials and Iranian representatives announced they had reached a preliminary agreement to end the war between the nations.

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