1 of 3 | Workers construct the octagon for the upcoming Ultimate Fighting Championship match on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., on May 29. Photo by Aaron Schwartz/UPI | License Photo
June 10 (UPI) -- The Trump administration has asked a federal court to throw out a lawsuit alleging that a planned UFC event on the White House's South Lawn violates regulations.
Lawyers with the Interior Department said the two plaintiffs in the case, Susan Douglas and Paul Romano, both residents of Virginia, "believe they have superior taste and want to spoil the event for everyone else."
"It would be easy enough to simply avert their gazes for the weekend," the Interior Department said in a filing Tuesday.
"Instead, they seek to enlist the power of a federal court to impose their idiosyncratic preferences on the rest of the country and ruin an event designed to celebrate the United States of America.
