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UFC CEO Dana White said he wants no part of politics moving forward after stumping for his longtime friend President-elect Donald Trump during his successful 2024 campaign.
“I’m never f**king doing this again,” White told the New Yorker during an interview conducted at Madison Square Garden after his UFC 309 event and published this week. “I want nothing to do with this s–t. It’s gross. It’s disgusting. I want nothing to do with politics.”
White introduced Trump at the Republican National Convention and was credited with helping the president-elect reach young male voters by showing him during UFC events, as well as connecting him with male podcasters, but claims he has no interest in serving as a cabinet member or any other future in politics.
“Donald Trump is tougher and more badass than anybody,” White told the New Yorker.
“You can only pray that you’re a quarter of the man that Donald Trump was when a guy tried to take seven shots at his head with a high-powered rifle with a f–king scope on it,” he added, referencing an initial assassination attempt targeting the then-former president on July 13..
White has served as UFC's president since 2001, having signed a seven-year contract to remain in his position in March 2019, amid the promotion's broadcasting deal with ESPN.