PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is attending the UFC heavyweight championship clash at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night, combining two things close to his heart: fierce battles inside the octagon and New York City. After a year delay, Stipe Miocic is getting his shot at a third heavyweight championship reign when he battles current champion Jon Jones at UFC 309.
Trump is a longtime UFC enthusiast and frequent attendee of major fights. He made promoting hypermasculine tones a signature of his latest, successful campaign for the White House -- as he looked to further widen the gap among male voters between himself and his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris . The trip to New York, where Trump lived for decades before moving to his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, came after the president-elect announced his choice for energy secretary in his upcoming administration.
And it also followed a key ally, billionaire Elon Musk , calling for more direct public input into the decision-making process for another top post Trump is still mulling, the head of his new administration's Treasury Department. Trump said that Chris Wright, CEO of Denver-based Liberty Energy, was his selection to head the Energy Department. Wright is a vocal advocate of oil and gas development, including fracking, a key pillar of Trump’s quest to achieve U.
S. “energy dominance” in the global market. Musk, meanwhile, mused about the president-elect's yet-to-b.