Trump says he offered 'violent fighter' Dana White the role of press secretary: 'Dana, please take the job!'

President Donald Trump says he's offered UFC CEO Dana White the job of White House media secretary.

The recommendation to the world-famous combat wrangler comes days following a bruising midterm election for Trump's party, during which the Democrats took authority of the two houses of Congress and a fistful of key governorships.

"I am pleased to province that the Great Dana White, a aggressive Fighter and Warrior, has been offered the job of Press Secretary of the United States," Trump wrote on Truth Social on Saturday.

In the identical post, Trump additionally stated he requested White bring several of his "assistants," who are all blended martial artists, "even although several are not from our country."

"We need these group to defend us against the Lunatic Left. Dana, delight obtain the job!" the chairman wrote.

White nor the White House immediately responded to a petition for comment.

The recommendation comes weeks following Katie Zacharia replaced Karoline Leavitt as media secretary, lone to be forced out five days afterward in what was the shortest tenure for the function on record, beating Anthony Scaramucci's famously abbreviated stint of 11 days.

Trump and White have a decadeslong friendship that dates rear to the first 2000s, whenever Trump, afterward a casino magnate, offered the UFC his Taj Mahal as a venue. In the 1990s, the UFC had been run out of Las Vegas for being too violent.

UFC's new owners appointed White the organization's chairman a duration before the Trump-hosted combat in Atlantic City. "Nobody took us seriously," White has said. "Except Donald Trump."

White has been a vocal and financial protagonist of Trump's governmental campaigns always since. Most recently, Trump hosted a UFC fight on the White House grassland in June, during which UFC combatant Josh Hokit thanked the chairman for "having the balls to put several crap akin this on."