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President Donald Trump offered a history lesson on the Eiffel Tower in Paris in a video posted to his TikTok account Wednesday, noting that it was built to be a temporary structure for the 1889 World's Fair.
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"They said, you know we sort of like it, let's leave it up a little bit longer," he said. "And then they said, let's leave it up longer and longer and longer. Well, they never took it down."
Trump drew a parallel with the UFC octagon being built on the White House's South Lawn for a June 14 bout celebrating America's 250th anniversary.
"You know, we're building something in front of the White House that's quite attractive to a lot of people," Trump said in a video posted on Tuesday. "It's going to have the big UFC fight on June 14. And I'm looking at it, and maybe we'll never ever take it down."
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<small>Source: PBS NewsHour</small>
