UFC-ийн ерөнхийлөгч Дана Уайт АНУ-ын Ерөнхийлөгч Дональд Трамптай найрсаг харилцаатай байдгийн улмаас улс төрийн дарамтад өртөж болзошгүй гэсэн таамаглалд байр сууриа илэрхийлжээ.
АНУ-ын Ерөнхийлөгч Дональд Трамп олон нийтийн сүлжээгээр дамжуулан UFC-ийн гүйцэтгэх захирал Дана Уайтыг Цагаан ордны хэвлэлийн төлөөлөгчөөр томилно гэж хошигносон нь хэвлэл мэдээллийн хэрэгслээр томоохон шуугиан дэгдээсэн юм. Уг үйл явдлын дараа Дана Уайт Цагаан ордны хэвлэлийн хуралд оролцож, сэтгүүлчдийн асуултад хариулсан нь түүний хувьд сонирхолтой туршлага болсныг онцолжээ. Тэрээр тухайн үед Лондонд тулааны арга хэмжээнд оролцож байхдаа Трампаас энэ тухай анх сонссон бөгөөд удалгүй UFC-ийн багийнхан нь энэ нь Америк даяар тархсан хамгийн том сэдэв болсныг мэдээлсэн байна.
Трамптай ойр дотно харилцаатай байх нь UFC-д олон эерэг нөлөө үзүүлж байгаа ч дунд шатны сонгуулийн үр дүнгээс үүдэн улс төрийн хүрээнийхний зүгээс шахалт ирж болзошгүй гэх болгоомжлол байна. Энэ талаар Лара Трамп асуухад Дана Уайт хууль бус үйлдэл хийгээгүй цагт санаа зовох зүйлгүй гэж хариулжээ. Тэрээр өөрийг нь улс төрийн зорилгоор онилох магадлалтайг үгүйсгээгүй ч ямар нэгэн нуух зүйл байхгүй тул айх зүйлгүй гэдгээ илэрхийлэв.
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President Donald Trump, followed by Dana White, UFC president and CEO, arrives to speak in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House Monday, Nov. 9, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) (Photo by Alex Brandon/PA Images via Getty Images) | PA Images via Getty Images
Dana White is opening up on the crazy whirlwind week he had after U.S. president Donald Trump put out a social media post claiming the UFC CEO would be the new White House press secretary.
The whole thing was just a joke but resulted in a mountain of media attention. A few days after Trump’s announcement, White showed up in the press room for a mock meeting with the president and media. In a new interview with Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara Trump on FOX News, White detailed how the whole thing played out on his end.
“Well, I was in London at a fight,” White said. “And he called me and basically was like, ‘Hey, I told the press that you’re going to be the next press secretary.’ He was laughing, and I hadn’t even really thought about what that would be like. An hour later, my guy Hunter [Campbell], who is my right hand man at the UFC, calls me and says, ‘This is the biggest story in America right now. I mean, this is everywhere.’ And then Lenay, my head of PR was just like, ‘Every news outlet in the world is calling right now.’”
“It’s an incredible, like, again, another one of one experience for me,” White said of the briefing room event. “Being friends with [Trump] has these crazy things that have happened in my life. But it was a very, very cool experience.”
While White and the UFC have enjoyed a lot of positives as a result of his close friendship with Trump, he admitted there might be issues following a disastrous midterm election result that saw the Republican president lose control of the House and Senate for the final two years of his term.
“There have been a lot of people on the Democrat side of the aisle who, in the wake of their midterm win, have said that they want to target the President,” Lara Trump said. “They want to target companies who have worked with him and allies of President Trump. Are you worried at all about ending up in the crosshairs of these people?”
“Well, I mean, we kind of expected that,” White replied. “If you didn’t do anything illegal or anything wrong, I don’t know why you’d have to be worried. And I’ve never done anything in the political world that would be illegal where anybody should come after me or anything that we have to hide. So yes, I expect it, but no, I’m not worried about it.”
White concluded the interview by doubling down on the claim that his support of his friend Trump transcends politics.
“You’ll never see me involved in politics,” he said. “I want nothing to do with politics.”
