Dana White Says He’s ‘Never F*cking Doing’ Politics Again

Julianna FriemanNovember 22, 2024 11:35 AM ET

Dana White, the CEO of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), said he’s “never fucking doing” politics again in a Tuesday interview with The New Yorker.

White told the outlet he wants to distance himself from the political fray after campaigning alongside his longtime friend, President-elect Donald Trump, throughout the 2024 election cycle.

“I’m never fucking doing this again,” he said. “I want nothing to do with this shit. It’s gross. It’s disgusting. I want nothing to do with politics.”

White’s comments followed Trump’s attendanceSaturday at UFC 309 at Madison Square Garden, where the president-elect was greeted with chants of “USA, USA!” and a powerful applause from the crowd.

Multiple notable figures attended the event, including Eric and Donald Trump Jr., Elon Musk, Kid Rock, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson.

Trump and White’s friendship dates back to the early days of the UFC given the president-elect’s early support for the then-controversial sport. The UFC previously struggled to find venues due to its violent reputation, and Trump was one of the few willing to host its events, allowing them to take place at his Atlantic City casino.

Fans of the UFC, which has since surged in popularity, took a liking to Trump.

“Every time, when he was getting hammered at his worst, we’d walk into that arena and the place erupts and goes crazy,” White told the outlet. “It shows other people, Oh, wait. Everybody doesn’t hate Donald Trump like the media is telling us.”

White took the podium at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in July to endorse Trump. The UFC CEO said that he was “nobody’s puppet” when it came to his support for his friend of 25 years.

“I know President Trump as a fighter,” White said at the RNC. “I’m in the tough guy business, and this guy is the toughest, most resilient I’ve seen in my life.”

White has previously clarified his belief, however, that Jon Jones is “the greatest fighter to ever live.”

https://dailycaller.com/2024/11/22/ufc-dana-white-never-doing-politics-again-trump-2024-election/

‘We Already Did Everything Possible’: North Korea Gives Trump Cold Shoulder, Signals Zero Interest In Renewing Talks

Jake SmithNovember 22, 2024 10:41 AM ET

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signaled during a speech Friday that he has no interest in working with the U.S. or incoming President-elect Donald Trump.

During his first term, Trump managed to somewhat improve U.S.-North Korea relations by negotiating with Kim, but that relationship dwindled in recent years under the Biden administration. Kim said Friday that he felt the U.S. had grown more hostile and that North Korea had no choice but to continue to bolster its military capabilities, seemingly discarding the possibility of diplomatic solutions, according to North Korean state media.

“The United States is growing more brazen in trying to place the whole world under the sphere of its interests,” Kim said at a military ceremony in Pyongyang on Friday, claiming that the U.S. had been more “hostile” in 2024 than any year before. “We already did everything possible in the bilateral negotiations with the United States.”

Kim hinted that future nuclear negotiations were off the table, arguing that the U.S. “is expanding the nuke-sharing military alliance system to contain our Republic’s rapid rise.” As of January 2024, North Korea was estimated to be in possession of at least 50 nuclear warheads — though the number could be considerably higher — and is continuing to grow its stockpile, according to the Arms Control Association.

“The Korean peninsula has never been under such a critical situation as the present, in which there is a growing likelihood of a most destructive thermonuclear war breaking out,” Kim said.

Kim’s feelings toward future relations with the U.S. were previously hinted at in North Korean media in July. State media at the time said that North Korea did “not care” who won the U.S. presidential elections, arguing that relations would not “change.”

“The era has come when the U.S. should really worry about its security,” state media read in July.

Tensions between the U.S. and North Korea have long been fraught. Trump and Kim’s relationship started on a poor foot in 2017, but the two eventually agreed to negotiations and met on several occasions in the years following. Kim welcomed Trump across the North Korean border in 2019, the first U.S. president in history to do so.

Trump aimed to move North Korea toward denuclearization in exchange for sanctions relief, but negotiations ultimately stalled out by the time Trump left office. North Korea had temporarily paused some of its weapons and nuclear testing capabilities during Trump’s term but quickly resumed activities once Biden took office in 2021.

Trump said on several occasions during his 2024 campaign that he wanted to resume negotiations with Kim, claiming he could better handle the North Korean leader.

“I got along with him great. We would have had no problems,” Trump said during a July interview, pointing to soured U.S.-North Korea relations under Biden. “Now he’s getting very angry with us.”

https://dailycaller.com/2024/11/22/north-koreas-kim-signals-no-interest-trump/