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UFC Boss Takes The White House Podium After Press Secretary Job Offer

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Dana White made a surprise appearance behind the White House podium Monday after President Donald Trump jokingly offered him the press secretary job.

The UFC president stepped up beside Trump and immediately leaned into the moment.

“Who has the first question?” White asked, drawing laughs from reporters.

White quickly made clear that the appearance was not the start of a political career. He explained that Trump had called him while he was at a fight and told him about the press secretary joke.

“I have zero political aspirations.” White said. He described the previous 24 hours as insane after media outlets began calling him about the supposed offer.

The first question sent White straight back into familiar territory. A reporter asked whether Trump or former President Joe Biden would win in a cage match if everything else were equal.

“The toughest, most resilient human being that I’ve ever met in my entire life,” White replied.

He pointed toward Trump as he spoke, then recalled asking the president over the years why he kept putting himself through political battles. White also referenced the assassination attempt against Trump while explaining why he viewed him as unusually resilient.

The reporter followed up by asking whether the fight would end in a knockout victory for Trump.

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“Yeah, I think it would be very bad.” White answered without hesitation.

Reporters kept calling for White’s attention after that, which seemed to catch him off guard.

“I can’t believe you actually have questions for me.” White joked as reporters kept calling for him.

CNN’s Kaitlan Collins then turned to the reason White was standing at the podium in the first place and asked whether he had ever officially told Trump no to the press secretary job.

“No, I don’t tell the president ‘no’ to anything,” White replied. “I didn’t say ‘no.’”

White explained that media outlets had been calling him and that he did not want to publicly dismiss the story before Trump addressed it himself.

Trump then filled in how the joke started. He said he had been having a bad press day when White’s name came to mind, so he told reporters he planned to make the UFC chief his new press secretary.

“I said it to a group of the press and that was it. I was sort of kidding, and then they wrote the story as though I wasn’t kidding,” Trump recalled.

The president eventually put the question directly to White, asking whether he wanted the White House job “or do you just want to stay with this ridiculous UFC?”

“I do not want to be in politics. No.” White answered.

“I am devastated to hear this,” Trump laughed. “Goodbye everybody!”

White had helped keep the joke alive over the weekend. On Saturday, he posted what appeared to be an AI-generated image of himself behind the White House briefing room podium with the caption, “On to the next chapter.” He followed it with a screenshot of Trump’s Truth Social post about the role.

Trump wrote that White had been offered “the job of Press Secretary of the United States” and suggested he bring several UFC figures with him as assistants, including Islam Makhachev, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Justin Gaethje, Daniel Cormier, Amanda Nunes and Kayla Harris.

“We need these people to defend us against the Lunatic Left. Dana will be a Press Secretary like none other. Dana, please take the job!” Trump posted.

White was in London that day and told reporters he was flying to Washington. Asked how he could balance another position with everything else he already does, White pointed out that his schedule was hardly empty.

“We have a meeting on Monday, so I’m sure I’ll have more to talk about after that,” White said.

The briefing eventually moved from the press secretary gag to Pete Rose. White was asked whether Trump should grant the late baseball legend a posthumous pardon.

“I don’t advise the president on anything ever, but yeah, I think it’s fair. I think it’s fair to pardon Pete Rose. Yes,” White responded.

Trump initially questioned why Rose needed a pardon before a reporter reminded him about the tax charges.

“Oh, he did? I’d give Pete Rose a pardon,” he stated.

Trump then argued that Rose had been mistreated despite finishing his career with 4,256 hits and spending decades outside the National Baseball Hall of Fame after being barred from baseball for gambling.

“They should be getting him into the [National] Baseball Hall of Fame a long time ago.” Trump stated.

Trump had already promised action months earlier. In March 2025, he wrote on Truth Social that he would be “signing a complete pardon” of Rose.

Rose had been placed on Major League Baseball’s permanently ineligible list in 1989 for gambling. Because the Hall of Fame followed the league’s lifetime ban, Baseball Writers Association of America voters were never given the option to elect baseball’s all-time hits leader.

Commissioner Rob Manfred removed Rose and several other deceased players from the ineligible list in May 2025, making Rose eligible for future Hall of Fame consideration. He has not yet been elected.

Trump again criticized Rose’s exclusion from Cooperstown that same month.

“I think Pete Rose should have been in the Baseball Hall of Fame a long time ago,” Trump said. “I think baseball did a great disservice by not respecting his achievements on the field.”

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