The US president says his proposal was a joke, while Dana White is due to meet him on Monday.
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Donald Trump announced on Saturday on his Truth Social network that he wanted to appoint Dana White as White House spokesperson, before declaring on Sunday that this proposal was a joke.
Who will be the next White House spokesperson? The mystery remains. Because if Dana White held the rope until now, Donald Trump seemed to have changed his mind on Sunday.
The President of the United States finally declared that his proposal to appoint the leader of the UFC, the world's leading mixed martial arts (MMA) organization, was a joke. “I was just joking, but Dana loves this idea,” Donald Trump told reporters on the tarmac at the airport that bears his name in Florida.
Dana White is scheduled to meet with Trump this Monday
Donald Trump announced on Saturday on his Truth Social network that he wanted to nominate his friend Dana White to this position. The latter, described by the tenant of the White House as a “violent fighter and warrior”, had not yet accepted this proposal. “Dana, please accept this job,” the president wrote, urging him to surround himself with deputies from the world of MMA, “even if some are not from our country.”
At the end of an event he attended in London, the 57-year-old then declared that he was going “immediately” to Washington to meet the American president this Monday. “I will have more to say after that,” he added.
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Donald Trump will announce the name of a new White House spokesperson after meeting with Dana White on Monday.
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