President Donald Trump says he is supplied UFC CEO Dana White the job of White Home press secretary.
The supply to the world-famous battle wrangler comes days after a bruising midterm election for Trump’s celebration, throughout which the Democrats took management of each homes of Congress and a handful of key governorships.
“I’m happy to announce that the Nice Dana White, a violent Fighter and Warrior, has been supplied the job of Press Secretary of the USA,” Trump wrote on Fact Social on Saturday.
In the identical submit, Trump additionally mentioned he requested White deliver a few of his “assistants,” who’re all blended martial artists, “regardless that some will not be from our nation.”
“We want these folks to defend us in opposition to the Lunatic Left. Dana, please take the job!” the president wrote.
White nor the White Home instantly responded to a request for remark. White posted to his Instagram story Saturday afternoon a photograph of himself behind the White Home press room lectern with the caption, “Onto the subsequent chapter.”
The supply comes weeks after Katie Zacharia changed Karoline Leavitt as press secretary, solely to be compelled out 5 days later in what was the shortest tenure for the function on document, beating Anthony Scaramucci’s famously quick stint of 11 days.
Trump and White have a decadeslong friendship that dates again to the early 2000s, when Trump, then a on line casino magnate, supplied the UFC his Taj Mahal as a venue. Within the Nineteen Nineties, the UFC had been run out of Las Vegas for being too violent.
UFC’s new homeowners appointed White the group’s president a month earlier than the Trump-hosted battle in Atlantic Metropolis. “No one took us significantly,” White has mentioned. “Besides Donald Trump.”
White has been a vocal and monetary supporter of Trump’s political campaigns ever since. Most just lately, Trump hosted a UFC fight on the White Home garden in June, throughout which UFC fighter Josh Hokit thanked the president for “having the balls to place some shit like this on.”
