Donald Trump stated he provided the job of White Home press secretary to UFC President and CEO Dana White, “a violent fighter and warrior,” within the president’s phrases.
It was not instantly clear whether or not Trump was joking, trolling, each or neither.
If White accepts the place, he’ll fill the place left vacant when a woefully underprepared Katie Zacharia was fired final month after simply 5 days on the job. Zacharia, a conservative commentator who misrepresented herself as a lawyer — she was by no means known as to the bar — gave just one press briefing, a efficiency so dismal that she was kicked out earlier than she may deal with one other.
“I’m happy to announce that the nice Dana White, a violent fighter and warrior, has been provided the place of Press Secretary of america,” Trump wrote in the present day on Reality Social. “I requested that he convey with him the aides, though some are usually not from our nation, of Islam Makhachev, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Justin Gaethje, Daniel Cormier, Amanda Nunes and Kayla Harris. We’d like these folks to defend us towards the lunatic left. Dana can be a press secretary like no different. Dana, please take the job!”
All names talked about as assistants are or had been UFC fighters.
White has apparently not but accepted the place.
Trump just lately joked that appointing Nikki Minaj as press secretary could be “a good suggestion,” an indication that the president has no qualms about utilizing the job supply to troll Democrats and the press. That stated, simply yesterday he named Stephen Miller, the architect of lots of the most controversial insurance policies that contributed to the Republican Get together’s devastating midterm defeat by Democrats, as White Home deputy chief of employees for coverage.
White and Trump are outdated associates, and the UFC CEO hosted and arranged the blended martial arts cage battle held on the White Houe garden for the president’s eightieth birthday.