Trump invites UFC boss Dana White to briefing and drops wild warning on reporters

I was having a little fun, and I said, how about Dana White being the press secretary? You know, press secretary. He's a great guy. He's done an unbelievable job, most successful. Thank you. You know, we talked Don King, who's a friend of mine. I got a lot of friends. When you talk about fight promoters, this is more than a fight promoter. This is a man that's done the most incredible job anybody's ever seen, UFC. It's like broadcasting the NFL, the numbers and what he's been able to do. And he's done a lot of press. And I said, you know what? I want to elevate you. I'm going to bring you into the press room. And Dana White could be our press secretary if he would only take the job. There would never have been. Even Caroline would admit that Dana is really very unique. The only problem is he'll talk for a little while and then he's going to beat the hell out of you. So I don't know if Daniel would like that. I don't think Daniel wants to take him on. But he's built an amazing machine. He's got a big fight this weekend at Madison Square Garden with the two greatest women fighters of... All time, as far as I'm concerned. The women. Women's fighting, it's not a nice thing, but they are very tough. When I say no men in women's sports, that's great. I would not want to fight it. However, I would not. How would I do against one of them? Would I do well? I don't think so. Not well, sir. I said not well. I wouldn't do it again. This would not be a good occurrence. Anyway, but I thought I'd bring David in because he loves the idea and I love the idea. The only thing is we have other things we have to think about. But he's a unique person, and he was seeing me anyway, unrelated, and I thought maybe he would say a few words. And I think he'd probably like the job. He loves the country, and he would do a hell of a job. So you were here, he was here, and Dana, please say a few words. Dana White, thank you. I've always wanted to do this. Who has the first question? I have zero political aspirations. Thank you for your patience. I was in a fight for Zufa Boxing in London when he called me and told me that he had done this and the last 24 hours of my life has been insane. We'll see what happens next thing. I appreciate it. MR. But, yeah, good to see you. Yes, ma'am. Thank you for being here. MS. Thank you very much. MS. Have a great afternoon. Thank you. The Press The toughest, MR. Thank you, everyone. Thank you, everybody. most resilient human being And thanks to you for being here today. And I hope to see you again for the next meeting. MR. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. that I've ever met in my entire life. MS. Thanks, everyone. And now I hope everybody is doing well. MR. Thank you, everybody. Many times during, you know, the last eight, MS. Good night. MR. ten years, whatever it's been, I have told Good night. MR. him, why do you keep doing this? Good night, everybody. Thank you for watching. Why are you doing this? Thank you, everyone. When he was going through everything that he went through. I mean, as tough and as resilient as I thought he was after he got shot, I, yeah, he is a one-of-one, unique human being, and it would be, it would be very bad, yeah, I think it would be very bad. I can't believe you actually have questions for me, yes? The President has said he might consider a pardon for Pete Rose. What is your advice to the president about that? I don't advise the president on anything ever, but, yeah, I think it's fair. I think it's fair to pardon Pete Rose, yes. I would do that. But why does he need to pardon? He was not really convicted of a criminal offense. It was a tax charge, sir. Oh, he did? Yes, sir. I'd give Pete Rose a pardon. All right. I think Pete Rose was very mistreated. He was, you know, 4,200 and some odd hits. Way ahead of anybody else, a record can never be broken, and he was gambling, now it's legal, right? He was gambling on his own team then, he wasn't gambling against, that's different, he was gambling, he shouldn't have done it, but he went through 40 years of hell, and they should have given him a part, they should have given him into the Baseball Hall of Fame a long time ago, and I spoke to the commissioner about it, and he agreed to do it, and then he waited though, and Pete Rose died, so it didn't help him too much. But I would give Peter as a point. Mr. President. Yeah. Did you tell the President no to the Press Secretary job? I don't tell the President no to anything. No, I didn't say no. I literally, everybody, every media outlet was calling me, and I didn't want to be disrespectful and say anything until he said something first. Mr. President, we're having a very bad press day. And I said, I don't know why, I thought of his name, he's been my friend for a long time. I said, you know, I think I'm going to get Dana White to be my new press secretary. And I sent it to a group of the press, and that was it. I'm sort of kidding. And then they wrote the story, so I wasn't kidding. And you were inundated, and I was inundated, and he was here anyway. We thought we'd have a little fun, and we brought Dana here. He would be... Mr. President, Dana, first of all, were you surprised by the results of the midterms last Tuesday? And Mr. President, you on the campaign trail, you had said that you had stopped Iran. From having a nuclear weapon, why not just declare an end to the conflict and be done with it? Because we have some great allies there, and we have to make sure they're not hurt, and they would be hurt. They are, right now, a lot safer than they were six months ago, because Iran's been very much decapitated. But they're still the bully of them, at least a little bit, and I see that. We want to make sure they're okay. We want to make sure it's a long-term solution, not just a short-term. They'll never have a nuclear weapon, but we have to make sure that it's a long-term. So it's ending quickly, but we want to take care of people that have been very good to us over the years.