UFC CEO Dana White joined President Trump at a White House press briefing on Monday and took questions from the podium, after days of attention over Trump’s suggestion that White become his press secretary, Fox News reported.
Trump told reporters the suggestion had been a joke. “I was sort of kidding, and then they wrote the story as though I wasn’t kidding,” he said.
Fox also quoted Trump telling reporters, “I think I’m going to get Dana White to be my new press secretary.”
At the podium, White said, “I have zero political aspirations.” He told reporters that Trump had called him about the idea while he was attending a Zuffa Boxing event in London.
White did not say he had turned the president down. According to Fox News, he said he never explicitly told Trump “no” about the position.
Trump, for his part, has now described the offer as a joke.
Reporters also put lighter questions to White, including how a hypothetical cage match between Trump and former President Joe Biden would go.
White dismissed the matchup while praising Trump’s toughness, saying such a fight would go badly for Biden.
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