When President Donald Trump announced that UFC president Dana White was his top choice for his next press secretary, no one was more amused than former Pentagon spokesperson Dana White.
“Dana will be a Press Secretary like none other,” Trump posted Saturday on Truth Social. “Dana, please take the job!”
Trump backtracked on Sunday, saying he was “only kidding” about the job offer, but given that he has appointed unqualified people like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Linda McMahon and Pete Hegseth to cabinet positions, Americans must take his joke with a grain of salt.
White ― the UFC head, not the former Pentagon spokesperson ― met with Trump on Monday and appeared before reporters as well. Although White said he doesn’t “tell the president ‘no’ to anything,” he also insisted he doesn’t “want to be in politics” at all.
Trump’s original post led some on social media to speculate that he had confused the UFC head honcho with Dana White, who served as Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs and Chief Pentagon Spokesperson from April 2017 to Dec. 31, 2018.
As hilarious as that mistake might seem, Dana White nipped that speculation in the bud with a LinkedIn post on Sunday:
To everyone texting me congratulations: thank you, but you have the wrong Dana White.
I’ve stood at a podium and taken questions from the Pentagon press corps. I have never stood in an octagon. I’d like to keep it that way.
It is nice for once that, that Dana White is being confused with this Dana White.
Best of luck to the next White House Press Secretary!