АНУ-ын ерөнхийлөгч Дональд Трамп UFC-ийн тэргүүн Дана Уайтыг өөрийн засаг захиргаанд хэвлэлийн төлөөлөгчөөр ажиллуулах санал нь зөвхөн хошигнол байсныг ням гарагт албан ёсоор мэдэгдлээ.
Өнгөрсөн амралтын өдрүүдэд Дональд Трамп өөрийн Truth Social хуудсаараа дамжуулан Дана Уайтыг хэвлэлийн төлөөлөгчийн албан тушаалд урьж, түүнийг тулаанчдаасаа туслахаар авч ирэхийг санал болгосон нь олон нийтийн дунд багагүй шуугиан тарьсан юм. Үүний хариуд Дана Уайт уг саналыг хэлэлцэхээр Вашингтон хотыг зорихоо мэдэгдсэн нь уг үйл явдлыг илүү нухацтай хүлээж авахад хүргэв.
Трамп ярилцлагынхаа үеэр энэ бүхэн зүгээр л хөгжилтэй үйл явдал байсныг онцлоод, Дана Уайт Вашингтонд өөр ажлаар ирж байгааг тодотгожээ. Тэрээр Дана Уайтыг чадварлаг хүн гэж үнэлсэн ч хэвлэлийн төлөөлөгчийн санал нь олон нийтийн дунд гэнэт “сайн санаа” мэтээр хүлээж авагдсан нь түүнийг гайхшруулсан болохыг дурдсан байна.
Trump: I was kidding.
pic.twitter.com/IqZ7srLkzR— Jed I. Goodman © (@jedigoodman) November 9, 2026
Сүүлийн үед Дана Уайт Zuffa Boxing-ийн үйл ажиллагаанд анхаарлаа хандуулснаас болж UFC-ийн үйл явдлуудад анхаарал сулрах, хэвлэлийн асуултуудад бухимдах зэрэг асуудлууд гарч байгаа нь хэвлэлүүдийн анхаарлыг татах болсон. Гэсэн хэдий ч энэ удаагийн “томилгоо”-ны асуудал нь зүгээр л хошигнол байсан нь тодорхой боллоо.
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WASHINGTON, DC – JUNE 14: President Donald J. Trump and UFC President Dana White look on after the UFC lightweight championship fight during the UFC Freedom 250 event on the South Lawn at the White House on June 14, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC)
Don’t quit your day job for Washington, D.C. just yet, Dana White!
U.S. president Donald Trump made headlines this weekend when he offered UFC CEO Dana White the job of press secretary for his administration via Truth Social, his X (formerly Twitter) clone. White could even bring some of his fighters as assistants, Trump wrote, to help ‘protect us from the Lunatic Left.’
Seems like a joke, right? Well, a whole lot of news outlets treated it pretty seriously. And then Dana White said he’d head to Washington to meet with Trump about the idea. All of a sudden this joke wasn’t so much of a joke any more? Was this thing suddenly becoming real?
Trump would clear things up in an interview on Sunday.
“So I was kidding,” Trump said. “But I think Dana likes the idea, and he is a very capable guy. He’s actually coming tomorrow. Of course, I was kidding. And you could see that because I put all of the great fighters as his assistants, that they’re all going to come with him. It was just a little fun. But Dana is actually coming tomorrow for other reasons.”
“It was an example of something where I was kidding, and then people said, ‘You know, that’s actually a pretty good idea.”‘
Is it really? Dana White hasn’t exactly been handling his own press duties all that well lately. The UFC CEO has been preoccupied with Zuffa Boxing, leading to several incidents over the past couple of months where he clearly had no idea who was fighting on UFC cards or what was happening in the sport. Things get antagonistic quickly when White feels like the questions he’s asked are negative.
Maybe that would have been a good fit for the Trump administration, but we’ll never know because the whole thing was just some tomfoolery. You just never know with Donald. The last time we thought he was joking around, we ended up with a UFC event on the White House lawn.
