US President Donald Trump offered the head of the mixed martial arts championship, Dana White, to take the position of White House spokesman, proposing to use six current and former fighters to defend his administration “against the crazy left.” CNN reported that White rejected the offer.
Published on: 08/11/2026 - 11:16
US President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that he had offered Dana White, CEO of the UFC Mixed Martial Arts Championship, to assume the position of White House spokesman, and called on the man to bring with him some aides, even if “some of them are not from our country.”
Trump posted on the Truth Social platform that White is a “fighter and a violent warrior.”
In this context, CNN quoted a source as saying that White rejected Trump's offer to be White House spokesman.
Trump asked six current or former champions to join White, including two athletes from the Russian region of Dagestan and a Brazilian athlete who obtained American citizenship last year.
“We need these people to defend us against the crazy left,” Trump noted in a post.
The position of White House spokesman has been vacant since Katie Zacharias left last month, less than a week later. Zacharias replaced Caroline Levitt, who left the position in late August.
France 24/Reuters
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