Dana who?
President Trump claimed to reporters Sunday evening that he was just having some fun when he publicly offered the White House press secretary job to UFC honcho Dana White.
“I will tell you, I was only kidding,” Trump said as he prepared to leave Florida after a weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort. “Dana loves the idea. There’s only one Dana. You wouldn’t mess around with him so much. So, I was kidding, of course.”
Trump had caused an uproar Saturday when he posted on Truth Social that “I am pleased to announce that the Great Dana White, a violent Fighter and Warrior, has been offered the job of Press Secretary of the United States” and suggested that the Connecticut native bring six prominent UFC fighters along as his assistants: Islam Makhachev, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Justin Gaethje, Daniel Cormier, Amanda Nunes, and Kayla Harris.
“We need these people to defend us against the Lunatic Left. Dana will be a Press Secretary like none other,” Trump concluded. “Dana, please take the job!”
White, 57, is set to meet with Trump in private at the White House Monday, with the combat sports mogul declining to comment on the supposed offer while attending.
Trump is looking for his third press secretary this year following the departure of Karoline Leavitt in August and the short, unhappy tenure of Katie Zacharia — who lasted just five days in the job last month.
Over the weekend, a theory emerged that Trump had actually meant to offer the job to Dana W. White, a former top Pentagon spokeswoman during his first term.
“To everyone texting me congratulations: thank you, but you have the wrong Dana White,” she wrote in a Saturday LinkedIn post.
“I’ve stood at a podium and taken questions from the Pentagon press corps. I have never stood in an octagon. I’d like to keep it that way,” she continued. “It is nice for once that, that Dana White is being confused with this Dana White. Best of luck to the next White House Press Secretary!”
