{"id":14525,"date":"2026-11-08T04:00:35","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T04:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=14525"},"modified":"2026-11-08T04:00:35","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T04:00:35","slug":"trump-asks-ufc-chief-dana-white-to-be-white-house-press-secretary-donald-trump-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=14525","title":{"rendered":"Trump asks UFC chief Dana White to be White House press secretary | Donald Trump News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO says he will meet with the US president on Monday to discuss the offer.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) chief executive Dana White has said he will meet with Donald Trump after the US president offered him the job of White House press secretary.<\/p>\n

Speaking at a new conference after a boxing event in London on Saturday, White said he would meet with Trump at the White House on Monday to discuss the president\u2019s offer.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDana will be a Press Secretary like none other,\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social earlier on Saturday. \u201cDana, please take the job!\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump also requested that White \u201cbring with him assistants, even though some are not from our Country\u201d.<\/p>\n

Trump listed and posted pictures of six current and former UFC title holders to join White: Islam Makhachev and Khabib Nurmagomedov from Russia\u2019s Dagestan region; Americans Justin Gaethje, Daniel Cormier and \u201cKayla Harris\u201d, likely a reference to Kayla Harrison; and Amanda Nunes, a Brazilian who became a US citizen last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need these people to defend us against the Lunatic Left,\u201d Trump wrote.<\/p>\n

The White House press secretary role has been vacant since Katie Zacharia\u2019s tenure ended \u200clast \u2060month<\/a> after just five days.<\/p>\n

Zacharia succeeded Karoline Leavitt, who stepped down<\/a> from the role at the end of August.<\/p>\n

White and Trump first worked together in the early 2000s, but they grew closer since \u2060the UFC chief publicly backed Trump\u2019s presidential campaign in 2016.<\/p>\n

In recent years, Trump has attended several UFC events, and in June, the White House hosted a night of UFC fights as \u2060part of celebrations marking the 250th anniversary of US independence.<\/p>\n

The White House press office already has a former UFC spokesperson among its ranks: Director of Communications \u2060Steven Cheung, who worked for White\u2019s organisation from 2013 to 2016.<\/p>\n

Cheung shared the president\u2019s message on X and said, \u201cHell yeah! Do it, @DanaWhite! It\u2019ll just be like old times!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n

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