Trump Offers UFC Chief Dana White the White House Press Secretary Role

UFC chief executive Dana White said he will meet with President Donald Trump on Monday to discuss the offer.

Published On 8 Nov 20268 Nov 2026

UFC chief executive Dana White said he will meet with former President Donald Trump after the US president offered him the position of White House press secretary.

White said at a news conference on Saturday held after a boxing event in London that he would meet Trump at the White House on Monday to discuss the offer.

“Dana will be a Press Secretary like none other,” Trump wrote earlier on Saturday on Truth Social. “Dana, please take the job!”

Trump also asked White to bring assistants, even some who are not from the United States.

Trump listed several current and former UFC title holders whom he said should join White: Islam Makhachev and Khabib Nurmagomedov of Russia’s Dagestan region; Americans Justin Gaethje, Daniel Cormier and Kayla Harris, likely a reference to Kayla Harrison; and Amanda Nunes, a Brazilian who became a US citizen last year.

“We need these people to defend us against the Lunatic Left,” Trump wrote.

The White House press secretary role has been vacant since Katie Zacharia ended her tenure last month after just five days.

Zacharia succeeded Karoline Leavitt, who stepped down from the role at the end of August.

White and Trump first worked together in the early 2000s, but they grew closer after the UFC chief publicly backed Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016.

In recent years, Trump has attended several UFC events, and in June the White House hosted an evening of UFC fights as part of celebrations marking the 250th anniversary of US independence.

The White House press office already has a former UFC spokesperson among its ranks: Director of Communications Steven Cheung, who worked for White’s organization from 2013 to 2016.

Cheung shared the president’s message on X and said, “Hell yeah! Do it, @DanaWhite! It’ll just be like old times!”

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