Dana White is delighted to see her friend Donald Trump in the White House, but as UFC president told Piers Morgan, she really wanted the Republican candidate to leave the race after surviving an attempt to murder in the campaign.
'Why are you doing these things?' White rhetorically asked in Piers morgan uncensored. 'Arrest. I told him to stop so many times. It's like, '' You have such a good life, and you could do all these other things. ''
According to White, Trump said: 'I can't quit smoking. You never give up. You never give up.
'But the point is that with President Trump he is he believes in God, and He is very religious … he believes that, instead, that God has saved his life to be the president and do the things he is going to do about The next four years.
The July 13 shooting at Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, claimed the life of a Trump supporter, Corey Eductore. The shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, was killed by the US Secret Service. On the scene.
Trump's ear was scratched during the shooting, which resulted in bleeding, but the 78 -year -old man continued in the campaign despite his injuries, and White's warnings.
White says Trump believes he was saved by God from the murderer on July 13. However, the shooter wounded an assistant, Corey Equivore, who finally died from his injury
Dana White is delighted to see her friend Donald Trump in the White House, but as UFC president told Piers Morgan, she really wanted the Republican candidate to leave
“I was flying to Italy when that happened, and my wife woke me up and said:” They simply shot President Trump, ” And he was already at the Hospital's house and I wasn't immutable.
White criticized fighter Dave Bautista for making fun of Trump following the shooting. Bautista has repeatedly challenged the belief of Trump's supporters that the former star of reality is an “alpha male”, once saying that the billionaire uses “more makeup than Dolly Parton.”
“Bautista, the old fighter, made this parody of Trump be weak and everything I thought was disgusting and disgusting,” White said. 'Let me tell you what Bautista, and any other person, the way Trump reacted to that murder, every man expects that to be the way you would react.
“If you react so much to how Trump reacted to that thing, you would be happy.”
One day before the closed doors ceremony on Monday in Washington DC, the commander in chief at once and future of the country is shown next to Rogan and White
White recently spoke on behalf of Trump before the inauguration last month.
He focused on the first part of his speech in the victory of Trump's Electoral College 312-226 over Kamala Harris and his 1.5 percent advantage in popular vote.
“Not only did the Electoral College won by 86 points, but President Trump was the first republican candidate in 20 years to win the popular vote,” White continued. 'He also achieved huge profits among traditional Democratic voters by increasing their support with Latin, Asian-American, black, black and young voters.
'So what tells us that?' White asked, rhetorically. 'Democracy is alive and well in this country. And people have spoken strong and of course: the United States wants President Trump to return to the White House.
White also portrayed Trump as a hero to overcome the media, the legal system and even the bullet of a murderer during his campaign.
“Think about this, winning these elections after everything that has happened in recent years is an incredible achievement and an incredible return story,” White said. 'Think of all the things that President Trump had to happen to return here, all the powerful forces that tried to knock him down: the main media, partisan prosecutors, the murderers.
'It is absolutely crazy about what this man has passed. And only President Trump could have fought through all those obstacles, all attacks and still go out to the winner.
But you know what? White continued. 'That is just what it is. This guy is a winner.
President -elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk pose for a photo during UFC 309
White and Trump's fans for each other is no secret. Trump has taken advantage of the president and the CEO of UFC to speak for him in the last three republican national conventions, which led many to wonder if he would play a more important role in the White House at some point.
“Its base is Trump's base,” said Kellyanne Conway, former Trump White House Minister, to New York Times of White. “And the Trump base is its base.”
White, however, has minimized any potential appointment of Trump.
“Donald Trump is one of my very good friends,” White told Sports Business Journal through a spokesman. 'He did a great job in his last term as president, and I know he will do an even better job in the next four years. I have no personal political aspirations.
In addition, White can provide a service greater to Trump through what the New York Times calls 'cage party policy'. Trump now makes regular apparitions in the cage in the UFC events, where fans of the fight, and the fighters themselves have bathed the former president with adulation.