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[–] 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

White, who has no fighting record or governmental record, has owned UFC since 2001. If he accepts the job, he would be Trump’s seventh press secretary, replacing Katie Zacharia, who lasted just under a week on the job before being fired by Trump on October 19th. 

It is unclear how White’s potential position in the federal government would impact his other roles, such as co-leader of Zuffa Boxing, a joint venture with the head of Saudi Arabia’s General Entertainment Authority. But it would not be Trump’s first collaboration with this magnate of the combat arts. In June, White’s company built a tarantula-like stage on the White House lawn to host a birthday cage fight for the President. (“It will never happen again,” White said afterwards.)

Beyond that, “the UFC and Dana White arguably helped Trump get elected,” as Kyle Green, a sociologist at SUNY Brockport who writes on the intersection of sports and politics, told my colleague Inae Oh in June. “They put him in contact with Joe Rogan, who puts him in contact with all the other podcast bros. That really helped Trump, especially in the last election.” Likewise, Green said, the UFC can attribute much of its newfound mainstream popularity to having a fan in the White House.

Obviously this would be another trumpster-fire-disaster like the last one, BUT something tells me this ‘violent fighter warrior’ is smart enough to stay the fuck out of a burning turd circus tent with a demented sociopath and his pet Göebbels.

I mean, I assume he saw the beatdown last week and knows it won’t help him at all.

But then maybe he just wants to get his viloent hands on a dumpster full of corrupt MAGA-Saudi cash and retire to Vegas or wherethefuckever these people go to be old.

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    But it would not be Trump’s first collaboration with this magnate of the combat arts.

    No, he tends to keep going back to the same well(s).

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