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US president Donald Trump has retracted the press secretary offer that he made to UFC boss Dana White over the weekend.
The life and career of Dana White have been pretty interesting to follow in the last ten years. In the wake of the big UFC sale, Dana continued his role as the face of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Alongside that, his friendship with US president Donald Trump also became a pretty big part of his identity.
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It got to the point where Dana White was actively campaigning for Trump, and earlier this year, the promotion hosted UFC Freedom 250 on the South Lawn of the White House. While it may have been controversial, the spectacle of the event was pretty positively received by a lot of mixed martial arts fans.
In the last few days, however, things took an arguably even more bizarre turn as Donald Trump appeared to offer Dana White the job of press secretary. After some remarks from Dana himself, Trump made the following statement when discussing the matter on Sunday.
Donald Trump takes back Dana White job offer
“I posted the greatest UFC fighters in the world, right?” President Trump told reporters on Sunday. “Like Justin Gaethje and Khabib [Nurmagomedov], you see a lot of rough faces in there. You would have thought that people would have said ‘he’s having a good time.’
“I will tell you I was only kidding. But Dana loves the idea and there’s only one Dana, he’s great… I don’t know. He would be – you wouldn’t mess around so much.”
Quotes via Bloody Elbow
While the White House may seemingly not await for Dana on a permanent basis, you would have to imagine their working relationship will continue to be pretty strong.
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