Could UFC boss Dana White be next White House press secretary?
UFC chief Dana White says he’ll meet Donald Trump after the US president urged him to become White House press secretary. But social media users say the administration may have intended to nominate a more experienced, Black woman with the same name.
Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO says he will meet with the US president on Monday to discuss the offer.
White says he has meeting with Trump in Washington DC on Monday, without saying whether he will accept the job Donald Trump has offered the job of White House press secretary to Dana White, the chief executive of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, the president said in a social media post on Saturday. Trump described White, who staged a cage-fighting spectacle at the White House to mark the president’s 80th birthday in June, as “a violent Fighter and Warrior”, credentials unlike any ever used to describe previous press secretaries.
The White House has been without a press secretary since October when Katie Zacharia left the position after less than a week on the job.
Facing an incoming Democratic Congress, US President Donald Trump struck a combative tone Saturday, offering friend and “violent fighter” Dana White the White House press secretary job and ordering the Justice Department to investigate his opponents. Trump listed six UFC fighters that he hoped White would bring to the White House as advisers, “even though some are not from our Country.”
US President Donald Trump has offered the job of White House press secretary to Dana White, the chief executive of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
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