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Trump and UFC 314 fight in Miami, Florida: Did Melania, Ivanka or Barron Trump attend?
President Trump walked into Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida, for UFC 314 fight as Kid Rock’s ‘American Bad Ass’ was playing.
President Trump makes entrance at UFC314 in Miami, greets Joe Rogan
President Trump made his entrance for UFC 314 alongside UFC CEO Dana White in Miami and greeted Joe Rogan and other notables cageside.
The Super Bowl. The Daytona 500. NCAA wrestling championship finals. LIV Golf Tournament. Now UFC. President Donald Trump has made high-profile sporting events part of his legacy during his second administration.
At times, members of his inner circle, including the Trump family, accompanied Donald Trump to these big events. Below is information about the games, matches or competitions he attended and who sat in the VIP box with the commander-in-chief.
Did Trump attend UFC MMA fight in Miami, Florida?
At the UFC 314 fight Saturday, April 12, at the Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida, Trump and three of his grandchildren, walked alongside UFC CEO Dana White for their big entrance into the arena. Kai Madison Trump, Donald Trump III and Spencer Trump, children of Donald Trump Jr. and ex-wife Vanessa Trump, walked out beside the president as part of his entourage. Kid Rock’s “American Bad Ass” was playing.
After the fight, Trump introduced Kai Trump to a group of reporters as “the fake news” aboard Air Force One on the way back to Palm Beach, Florida, and invited them to ask her questions.
Kai Trump will graduate from the Benjamin School in 2026, where she currently plays golf with Charlie Woods, son of golf legend Tiger Woods. Sam Alexis Woods, older sister of Charlie Woods and daughter of Tiger Woods and ex-wife Elin Nordegren, also attends the Benjamin School with Kai Trump. Last month, Tiger Woods announced his relationship via Instagram (or “Instagram official”) with Vanessa Trump, mother of Kai Madison Trump, Donald Trump III, Tristan Trump, Spencer Trump and Chloe Trump.
Was First Lady Melania Trump at UFC fight in Miami, Florida, with Donald Trump?
No, First Lady Melania Trump did not attend the UFC 314 fight in Miami, Florida, on Saturday, April 12.
She also did not attend the 2025 LIV Golf Tournament festivities or activities the weekend of April 4, 2025, at any of her husband’s clubs, Trump National Doral Golf Club in Miami, Florida, Trump International Palm Beach Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, or Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida.
Melania Trump also did not attend the NCAA Wrestling Championship final in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the 67th annual Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida, Super Bowl LIX (aka Super Bowl 59 or Super Bowl 2025) in New Orleans, Louisiana, with her husband, President Donald Trump.
Though Donald Trump has visited Florida 10 times since his second term started Jan. 20, 2025, Melania Trump has not accompanied him on Air Force One during any of those trips home, though a few special guests have such as Elon Musk and his son Little X, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and her father, Viktor Knavs.
Though his father and three of his children were at the Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida, for the UFC 314 fight on April 12, 2025, Donald Trump Jr. did not attend, nor did his girlfriend, model and socialite Bettina Anderson.
Donald Trump Jr., eldest son of Donald Trump and the late Ivana Trump, attended LIV Golf Tournament festivities the weekend of April 4, 2025, and shared coverage from his VIP access to his Instagram followers.
Anderson, posted LIV Golf activity to her Instagram followers, too.
Donald Trump Jr. and Anderson did not attend the NCAA Wrestling Championship in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, or the 2025 Daytona 500 in Daytona Beach, Florida. The pair did attend Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025, the day they became “Instagram official.”
The couple has attended other high-profile events such as Donald and Melania Trump’s New Year’s Eve 2024 party at Mar-a-Lago and Inauguration Day festivities in Washington, D.C.
Was Ivanka Trump at UFC 314 fight in Miami, Florida?
Donald Trump’s oldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, did not attend the UFC 314 fight in Miami, Florida, on April 12, 2025, nor did she attend the 2025 LIV Golf Tournament at Trump National Golf Club in Miami, Florida, or the 2025 Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Ivanka Trump did attend Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans and stood next to her father in the VIP box, posting about her trip via Instagram Story and her Instagram feed. She gave her 8.2 million followers a peek of her window-seat view (with a prompt to turn the sound up) aboard Air Force One. A former senior adviser to Donald Trump during his first term in office, from 2017 to 2021, Ivanka Trump, who’s married to Jared Kushner, brought their youngest son, Theodore James Kushner, to the Super Bowl.
Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner are parents to three children, Arabella Rose Kushner, Joseph Frederick Kushner and Theodore James Kushner.
Was Eric Trump at UFC 314 fight in Miami, Florida?
Eric Trump, youngest child of Donald Trump and the late Ivana Trump, did not attend the UFC 314 fight in Miami, Florida, on April 12, 2025. Of all of his children, Eric Trump has accompanied his father to most of the high-profile sporting events in this story.
For example, Eric Trump did play golf the weekend before the UFC fight alongside the pros in the LIV Golf Pro-Am Tournament at Trump National Doral Golf Club in Miami, Florida, teaming up with Gov. Ron DeSantis. Florida’s first lady Casey DeSantis and their son, Mason DeSantis, attended LIV Golf events. Fox News host Lara Trump, wife of Eric Trump, posted photos of the couple and their children at LIV Golf festivities. Lara and Eric Trump also sported matching lavender purple outfits for LIV Golf at Trump National Doral Golf Club, according to her Instagram feed: “(Two purple heart emojis) We didn’t even plan it!”
Eric Trump also attended the 67th annual Daytona 500 in Daytona Beach, Florida. With him were his wife, Lara Trump, former chair of the Republican National Convention, and their two children, Luke Trump and Carolina Trump. Carolina stood on the racetrack with her famous grandfather.
Eric and Lara Trump also attended Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans on Feb. 9, 2025, along with his father, his sister Ivanka Trump and her son Theo Kushner, and brother Donald Trump Jr. with three of his children and girlfriend Bettina Anderson.
Was Tiffany Trump at UFC 314 fight in Miami, Florida?
Tiffany Trump, daughter of Donald Trump and model Marla Maples, did not attend the UFC 314 fight at the Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida, on April 12, 2025.
She also did not attend any 2025 LIV Golf Tournament activities or festivities at Trump National Doral Golf Club in Miami the weekend of April 4, 2025, the NCAA Wrestling Championship final in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 2025, the Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida, on Feb. 16, 2025, or Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Feb. 9, 2025.
Tiffany Trump and her husband, businessman Michael Boulos, are expecting their first child. The couple’s last public appearance at a Trump family event was during Donald Trump’s primetime address to Congress on March 4, 2025. Before that, it was on Inauguration Day, when her father was sworn in as the 47th president of the U.S.
Was Barron Trump at UFC fight in Miami, Florida?
Barron Trump, sole child of Donald and Melania Trump, did not attend the UFC 314 fight in Miami, Florida, on April 12, 2025.
He also was not at any of the golf clubs that bear his last name during the 2024 LIV Golf Tournament weekend in Florida (Trump National Golf Club in Miami, Trump National Doral Golf Club or Trump National Golf Club in West Palm Beach).
The youngest son of Donald Trump also did not travel to Caesars Superdome stadium in New Orleans for Super Bowl LIX on Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025, or to Daytona Beach, Florida, Feb. 14, 2025, for the 2025 Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway, or to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for the NCAA Wrestling Championship final in March 2025. The 19-year-old, 6-foot-9-inch-tall Barron Trump, a freshman at New York University’s Stern School of Business, last made a public appearance when his father was sworn in at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., for Inauguration Day (Jan. 20, 2025).
Who is Kai Madison Trump? Where does Kai Trump go to school? Where will Kai Trump go to college?
Kai Madison Trump, Donald Trump’s oldest grandchild, is the daughter of Donald Trump Jr. and Vanessa Trump. She’s the oldest of five children and a year younger than her uncle, Barron Trump (Donald Trump Jr.’s half-brother).
She was born and mostly raised in New York, but now lives in Jupiter, Florida, with her mom and siblings: Donald Trump III, Tristan Milos Trump, Spencer Trump and Chloe Sophia Trump.
Kai Trump attends high school at The Benjamin School in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, and will graduate in spring 2026. In fall 2024, Kai Trump had committed early to stay in Florida and play golf at the University of Miami after high school graduation.
During the Republican National Convention in July 2024, Donald Trump’s oldest granddaughter, Kai Madison Trump, became the first of his grandchildren to talk about what it’s like to have one of the most famous people in the world as a grandfather.
In her speech, Kai Trump mostly focused on the side of Trump that no one sees, calling him a “normal grandpa.”
Who was with Trump at UFC 314 in Miami, Florida?
At the UFC 314 fight at the Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida, here’s who sat with President Donald Trump in the VIP seats:
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- X Æ A-12 Musk or “Little X” Musk, son of Elon Musk and singer Grimes
- Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Health and Human Services Secretary
- actress Cheryl Hines (“Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “A Bad Moms Christmas”), wife of RFK Jr. In a viral video, Trump was seen “ignoring” a handshake from Hines when greeting RFK.
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- Texas Sen. Ted Cruz
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After meeting for over seven hours Thursday night, an ethics panel composed of four Democrats and four Republicans found that Cherfilus-McCormick had committed 25 ethics violations. The panel said it would recommend a punishment in the coming weeks.
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Audubon Florida leader has built reputation for working across party lines | The Invading Sea
By Issabella Gutierrez
As a child growing up in rural Florida, Julie Wraithmell once stood at the foot of a tall pine tree and watched a woman climb 50 feet into the air to occupy an abandoned eagle’s nest. The woman, Doris Mager, stayed there for a week to raise money for raptor rehabilitation. For young Julie, the “nest-in” became a blueprint for a life in conservation.
In Florida’s often unpredictable environmental policy landscape, Wraithmell has built a reputation for working across party lines.
Today, as the vice president and executive director of Audubon Florida, the state office of the National Audubon Society, she leads the organization’s statewide science and advocacy efforts from her office in Tallahassee. She spends the legislative session in committee hearings and meetings with lawmakers, agency officials and conservation leaders.
Over two decades, she has evolved from a field biologist and self-described “bird nerd” into an influential environmental leader in Florida, navigating a political landscape that can be as unpredictable as any treetop.
A native Floridian, Wraithmell earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from Duke University and a master’s degree in science from Florida State University.
She began her career in 1997 as a biologist at the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, where she worked for eight years and helped launch the Great Florida Birding Trail, a 2,000-mile network connecting more than 500 wildlife-viewing sites.
Wraithmell now oversees 80 Audubon Florida staff members and 45 chapters statewide. Beyond lobbying, she directs habitat restoration strategies and coordinates policy teams focused on land conservation and water quality.
Renée Wilson, a senior communications coordinator at Audubon Florida, described Wraithmell as a “getter-donner” who remains “cool as a cucumber” even when tension runs high in the Capitol.
“She’s not a micromanager,” Wilson said. “She gives you the direction you need, and she’s there if you need a course correction, but she really empowers the staff to follow their passions.”
Her leadership was tested in 2024 and 2025, when proposals surfaced to add golf courses to state parks and to swap protected land at the Guana River Wildlife Management Area for development. Audubon Florida helped generate tens of thousands of public comments and coordinated bipartisan opposition that led to the withdrawal of both proposals.
Elizabeth Alvi, senior director of policy for Audubon Florida, said Wraithmell’s leadership in these sensitive moments is defined by a refusal to be pulled off course by short-term pressure. She added that Wraithmell is widely respected by lawmakers across the aisle.
“People know that when she speaks, it is grounded in science and aligned with a clear organizational priority, not opportunistic positioning,” Alvi said. “That discipline earns respect in the Capitol because it’s consistent and thoughtful.”
Wraithmell often quotes a mentor who told her that advocacy requires “weaving back and forth across the political aisle like sloppy drunks.”
“You might find yourself fighting a legislator over a road project one year, but you have to be ready to partner with that same person on a land conservation bill the next,” Wraithmell said. Holding onto professional grudges, she said, is a luxury the environment cannot afford.
That pragmatism shapes her push for stable funding for Florida Forever, the state’s land acquisition program that has preserved more than 1 million acres. While funding has fluctuated in recent years, she said unstable funding could impede critical habitat purchases as development pressures increase.
In 2010, Wraithmell led Audubon’s response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, advocating for restoration settlement funds to be directed toward coastal bird habitat recovery. Her efforts earned her the Charles H. Callison Award in 2015, the highest honor from the National Audubon Society.
Wraithmell does not shy away from the topic of climate change.
“The ocean is coming for us,” Wraithmell said. “Whether you call it climate change, sea-level rise or flooding, we are seeing the impacts on our shorebirds and our coastal communities right now.”
Under her leadership, Audubon Florida has expanded coastal resilience efforts, including protecting nesting grounds threatened by rising sea levels and promoting nature-based solutions such as wetland restoration and living shorelines. Alvi said many people underestimate how difficult it is to align science, policy timing and organizational reputation simultaneously.
“The most significant win will likely be institutional strength: a conservation movement in Florida that is more strategic, more science-driven and more disciplined in its public engagement,” Alvi said.
When asked to summarize Florida’s environmental story in a single place, Wraithmell pointed to the Everglades. She described it as an ecosystem shaped by historical “screw-ups,” from ditching and draining to the exploitation of birds.
“It’s a site of people coming together and saying, ‘Whoop, we screwed up. Now what are we going to do about it?’” Wraithmell said. “With billions of dollars in investment, we are seeing results.”
Despite the rapid pace of development across Florida, Wraithmell remains optimistic about the future, pointing to volunteers, students, and local advocates who make up the Audubon Florida network.
“Watching kind of the creative magic that they get up to together,” Wraithmell said. “That is what gives me hope for the next decade.”
The little girl watching from the ground is gone. Now, Julie Wraithmell is the one in the treetop, asking young Floridians to climb with her and protect wild Florida.
Issabella M. Gutierrez is a junior majoring in multimedia journalism at Florida Atlantic University. Banner photo: A great egret flies over the Florida Everglades (iStock image).
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