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Conor McGregor meets President Trump at the White House

newsNov 7, 202615155

Conor McGregor visited the Oval Office and posed for photos with US President Donald Trump on St Patrick's Day. Accompanied by his partner and four children, McGregor praised the president's work ethic as "inspiring" while Trump described McGregor as "fantastic." McGregor told reporters he intended to raise immigration issues affecting Ireland and accused the Irish government of "abandoning" the voices of the Irish people and spending money on overseas issues unrelated to them. Irish leaders rejected any claim McGregor represented Ireland: Taoiseach Micheál Martin said McGregor's remarks "are wrong" and do not reflect the spirit of St Patrick's Day, and Tánaiste Simon Harris said McGregor was in Washington in a personal capacity and has no mandate to speak for Ireland. BBC reporting notes McGregor attended Trump's inauguration earlier in the year and was also pictured with Elon Musk in the Oval Office. The BBC also reports that in 2024 a jury found McGregor had assaulted a woman in a Dublin hotel and ordered him to pay more than €248,000 in damages.

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