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UFC President Dana White has described the “crazy 48 hours” he endured after Donald Trump asked him to be his next press secretary.
White sat down with the president’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, on her Fox News show and revealed what it was like to “almost inadvertently become the next press secretary for the White House.”
Trump announced he had offered the role to “the Great Dana White, a violent Fighter and Warrior” in a November 7 Truth Social post, a few weeks after he fired Katie Zacharia on day five of the job. Trump later admitted he was “kidding” about the offer, and it had been “just a little fun.”
Then, on Monday, Trump ushered White into the White House’s James S. Brady briefing room and the pair held a bizarre press conference, taking questions from the press corps on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the Iran war and disgraced former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
“It was a very unique and crazy 48 hours for me,” White told Lara Trump in a preview clip of her Friday Fox show.
