Dana White dismisses notion White House UFC event will be ‘too political’: ‘It’s a history-making event’

UFC CEO and President Dana White brushed disconnected concerns that a planned White House combat paper marking America’s 250th day would beryllium "too political," saying that "just astir everybody connected the roster" wants to compete.

In an interrogation with Bloomberg’s Romaine Bostick Friday, White was asked if helium thought it would beryllium a situation to get fighters to enactment successful the UFC lawsuit scheduled for June retired of fearfulness that it would beryllium "too political" oregon person "too galore governmental overtones." 

UFC President Dana White during UFC 300 astatine T-Mobile Arena.  (Mark J. Rebilas/USA Today Sports)

White, a longtime person and protagonist of President Donald Trump, rejected the concern, noting that galore presidents person had idiosyncratic interests successful assorted sports.

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"I mean, I don’t cognize however it would beryllium excessively governmental different than it’s astatine the White House," helium responded with a laugh.

"Listen, if you look backmost passim history, I deliberation [former President] George Bush was a large shot fan, [former President Barack] Obama was an NBA instrumentality and Trump is simply a UFC fan. I don’t deliberation that immoderate of those guys being fans made immoderate athletics excessively political." 

White said his unit has the logistics of the lawsuit "dialed in" and noted that astir 5,000 volition beryllium capable to presumption the fights connected the White House tract portion an further 85,000 radical volition beryllium capable to presumption the fights connected large screens astatine The Ellipse. 

President Donald Trump attends UFC 314 with UFC President and CEO Dana White astatine Kaseya Center successful Miami, Fla., April 12, 2025. (Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC)

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"We’re going to instrumentality implicit Washington, D.C. the week of the fight," White said. 

White went connected to accidental that astir each of his fighters person expressed involvement successful participating successful the event, but that a last determination has not been made.

"Just astir everybody connected the roster wants to combat connected the card. It’s a one-of-one peculiar event. I mean, erstwhile volition determination ever beryllium different combat oregon sporting lawsuit astatine the White House. It’s a history-making event, and we’ll spot however this twelvemonth plays retired with antithetic fighters. And you privation the biggest, the best, and you privation the paper to beryllium great."

UFC President and CEO Dana White reacts during a bantamweight combat betwixt Adrian Luna Martinetti of Ecuador and Mark Vologdin of Russia during Dana White's Contender Series Season 9, Week 9 astatine UFC APEX Oct. 7, 2025, successful Las Vegas.  (Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC)

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White sat alongside the president Monday successful a suite astatine Hard Rock Stadium successful Miami Gardens, Florida, arsenic the brace watched the Indiana Hoosiers seizure the archetypal nationalist rubric successful programme past with a triumph implicit the Miami Hurricanes successful the College Football Playoff title game.

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