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Trump Offers Press Secretary Role to UFC CEO Dana White, Asks That He Bring Assistants to ‘Defend Us Against the Lunatic Left’

President Donald Trump has offered UFC President and CEO Dana White the White House press secretary role after Katie Zacharia was ousted in October.

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 7 sources•1 min read•Updated November 8, 2026, 12:31 AM UTC
Key points
  • US President Donald Trump on Saturday said he was asking mixed martial arts promoter Dana White to be the new White House press secretary.
  • It was unclear whether the president's public job offer was genuine, although White said later on Saturday: "I got a lot of jobs already.".
  • Trump has repeatedly tried to hitch his MAGA brand of politics to White's enormously successful Ultimate Fighting Championship.

US President Donald Trump has offered the White House press secretary job to Dana White, the chief executive of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

On social media, the president offered the now-vacant job of White House press secretary to Dana White, the organization’s C.E.O., and told him to bring along fighters as aides.

Additional details
  • It was not immediately clear whether Trump was joking, trolling, both or neither.
  • If White accepts the gig, he would fill the vacancy left when the […].
  • “I am pleased to announce that the Great Dana White, a violent Fighter and Warrior, has been offered the job of Press Secretary of the United States,” Trump wrote on Truth […].
  • White has neither formally accepted nor turned down the invitation.

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