Dana White joins Donald Trump at White House after president floated UFC head as press secretary — Transcript

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1. 0:00With that being said, I was having a
2. 0:02little fun and I said, "How about Dana
3. 0:04White being the press secretary?" You
4. 0:06know, press secretary. He's a great guy.
5. 0:10He's done an unbelievable job. Most
6. 0:13successful
7. 0:15uh you know, we talk Don King, who's a
8. 0:17friend of mine. I got a lot of friends,
9. 0:18but you talk about fight promoters. This
10. 0:21is more than a fight promoter. This is a
11. 0:23man that's
12. 0:25done the most incredible job anybody's
13. 0:28ever seen. UFC
14. 0:30It's like uh broadcasting the NFL, the
15. 0:32numbers and what he's been able to do.
16. 0:35And he's done a lot of press and I said,
17. 0:37"You know what? I want to elevate you.
18. 0:39I'm going to bring you into the press
19. 0:40room." And Dana White could be our press
20. 0:43secretary if you would only take the
21. 0:44job. There would never have been even
22. 0:47Caroline would admit that Dana is is
23. 0:50really very unique. The only problem is
24. 0:53he'll talk for a little while and then
25. 0:54he's going to beat the hell out of you.
26. 0:56So, and I don't know if Daniel would
27. 0:58like that. I don't think Daniel wants to
28. 0:59take him on, but he uh he's built an
29. 1:04amazing an amazing machine. He's got a
30. 1:07big fight this weekend at Madison Square
31. 1:10Garden with
32. 1:11>> the two greatest women fighters of all
33. 1:16time as far as I'm concerned. Women's
34. 1:19fighting, it's not a nice thing, but
35. 1:21they are they are very tough. When I say
36. 1:24no men in women's sports, that's great.
37. 1:27I would not want to fight. However, I
38. 1:29would not how would I do against one of
39. 1:31them. Would I do well? I don't think so.
40. 1:33>> Not well.
41. 1:34>> And he said not [laughter] well.
42. 1:36This would this would not be a good
43. 1:39occurrence any anyway. But I thought I'd
44. 1:41bring Da because
45. 1:44he loves the idea and I love the idea.
46. 1:46The only thing is we have other things
47. 1:48we have to think about. But he's he's a
48. 1:50unique a unique person and he was seeing
49. 1:55me anyway unrelated
50. 1:57and I thought maybe he would say a few
51. 2:00words and I think he probably like the
52. 2:02job. He loves the country and he would
53. 2:04do a hell of a job. So uh you were here,
54. 2:07he was here and Dana, please say a few
55. 2:09words. Dana White, thank you.
56. 2:14>> I've always wanted to do this. Who has
57. 2:16the first question?
58. 2:18I have zero political aspirations. Uh I
59. 2:21was in a fight for Zufa boxing in London
60. 2:23when he called me and told me that he
61. 2:25had done this and the last 24 hours of
62. 2:27my life has been insane. Um
63. 2:30>> it's true.
64. 2:30>> But yeah, good to see you. Yes, ma'am.
65. 2:33>> I have a question. There was a
66. 2:35pound-for-pound UFC cage match between
67. 2:37President Trump and former President Joe
68. 2:39Biden. same age, same weight, and
69. 2:42considering like styles make fights.
70. 2:44Could you give us an analysis of who
71. 2:45>> the toughest most resilient human being
72. 2:47that I've ever met in my entire life
73. 2:49many times during you know the last 8 10
74. 2:52years whatever it's been I have told him
75. 2:55what why why do you keep doing this why
76. 2:57are you doing this when he was going
77. 2:58through everything that he went through
78. 3:00and I mean as tough and as res as
79. 3:03resilient as I thought he was after uh
80. 3:05he got shot I uh yeah I he's he is a
81. 3:09oneofone unique human being and uh Yeah.
82. 3:14>> Would it be a knockout?
83. 3:15>> A knockout victory for President Trump.
84. 3:17>> It would be it would it would be very
85. 3:18bad. Yeah, I think it would be very bad.
86. 3:21>> I can't believe you actually have
87. 3:22questions for me. Yes.
88. 3:23>> The president has said he might consider
89. 3:26a pardon for Pete Rose.
90. 3:29>> What is your advice to the president
91. 3:31about that pardon?
92. 3:32>> I don't advise the president on anything
93. 3:34ever. Um but yeah, I think it's fair. I
94. 3:37think it's fair to pardon Pete Rose.
95. 3:38Yes,
96. 3:38>> I would do that. But why does he need a
97. 3:41pardon? He does. He was not really
98. 3:42convicted of a criminal
99. 3:44>> was tax charges, sir.
100. 3:45>> Oh, he did?
101. 3:45>> Yes, sir.
102. 3:46>> I'd give Pete Rose a party. I make
103. 3:48>> I think Pete Rose was very mistreated.
104. 3:51He was, you know, uh, 4,200 and some odd
105. 3:55hits, way ahead of anybody else. It's a
106. 3:57record can never be broken. And he was
107. 4:00caught gambling. Now it's legal, right?
108. 4:03But he was gambling on his own team,
109. 4:04Dana. He wasn't gambling against. That's
110. 4:06different. He was gambling. He shouldn't
111. 4:08have done it, but he went through 40
112. 4:10years of hell and they never and they
113. 4:12should have given him a pardon. They
114. 4:14should have given him into the baseball
115. 4:16hall of fame a long time ago and I spoke
116. 4:18to the commissioner about it and he
117. 4:20agreed to do it and then he waited
118. 4:23though and Pete Rose died so it didn't
119. 4:25help him too much. But uh I would give
120. 4:28Pete Rose a pardon. I would do that.
121. 4:32>> Just to confirm, did you tell the
122. 4:34president no to the press secretary job?
123. 4:36I don't tell the president no to
124. 4:37anything. I No, I didn't say no. I
125. 4:40literally everybody every media outlet
126. 4:42was calling me and I didn't want to be
127. 4:44disrespectful and say anything until he
128. 4:46he uh he said something first. So, Mr.
129. 4:48President,
130. 4:50>> we were having a very bad press day and
131. 4:52I said, I don't know why I thought of
132. 4:54his name. He's been my friend for a long
133. 4:56time. I said, you know, I think I'm
134. 4:58going to get Dana White to be my new
135. 5:00press secretary. I said it to a group of
136. 5:02the press and that was it. I was sort of
137. 5:05kidding. And then they wrote the stories
138. 5:07though I wasn't kidding and you were
139. 5:09inundated and I was inundated and he was
140. 5:12here anyway with we thought we have a
141. 5:14little fun and we brought Dana here. He
142. 5:16would be fantastic. Go ahead Freddy. Mr.
143. 5:20>> President Dana first of all were you
144. 5:22surprised by the results of the midterms
145. 5:25last Tuesday? And Mr. President you on
146. 5:28the campaign trail you had said that you
147. 5:31have stopped Iran from having a nuclear
148. 5:34weapon. Why not just declare an end to
149. 5:37the conflict and be done with it?
150. 5:39>> Because we have some great allies there
151. 5:42and we have to make sure they're not
152. 5:44hurt and they would be hurt. Uh they are
153. 5:48right now a lot safer than they were six
154. 5:51months ago because Iran's been very much
155. 5:53decapitated, but they're still the bully
156. 5:55of the Middle East a little bit and I
157. 5:58see that. And we want to make sure
158. 5:59they're okay. We want to make sure it's
159. 6:01a long-term solution, not just a
160. 6:03short-term. They'll never have a nuclear
161. 6:05weapon, but we have to make sure that's
162. 6:06a long term. So, it's ending quickly,
163. 6:08but uh we want to take care of people
164. 6:11that have been very good to us over the