Famously combative, White has astatine times clashed with journalists covering the athletics during quality conferences.
In 2020, helium released a video targeting reporters who had questioned the UFC's determination to clasp fights aboriginal successful the pandemic.
In 2009, helium released an expletive-laden video tirade utilizing an anti-gay slur portion rebutting a journalist's communicative astir changes to backstage credentialing rules astatine UFC events.
White is simply a longtime state - and person - of Trump.
When White and his concern partners bought the then-struggling UFC organisation for $2m successful 2001, the athletics was facing aggravated bipartisan backlash.
Just 5 years earlier, Republican Senator John McCain had famously labelled mixed martial arts "human cockfighting", sparking bans successful 36 US states.
"None of the venues wanted [the UFC]," White told CBS, the BBC's US partner, successful 2025. "They didn't judge successful it. They didn't similar it, and they were disquieted astir the benignant of assemblage that would amusement up for this benignant of event."
With mainstream arenas shutting them out, White credits Trump with redeeming the organisation by hosting 2 UFC events astatine the Trump Taj Mahal casino successful Atlantic City, New Jersey, successful 2001.
This summer, the UFC held a cage lucifer connected the White House lawn.
White became a talker for Trump's White House campaigns astatine the Republican National Conventions successful 2016, 2020 and 2024.
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