{"id":136089,"date":"2026-11-08T08:58:28","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T03:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/?p=136089"},"modified":"2026-11-08T08:58:36","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T03:58:36","slug":"please-take-the-job-trump-asks-ufc-chief-dana-white-to-be-white-house-press-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationaltimes.pk\/eng\/2026\/136089\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Please take the job&#8217;: Trump asks UFC chief Dana White to be White House press secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Washington(National Times)- US President Donald Trump said on Saturday he had asked mixed martial \u200barts promoter Dana White to serve \u200cas White House press secretary and called on him to bring some fighters \u200balong as assistants \u201ceven though some \u200bare not from our country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">White, chief \u2060executive of the Ultimate Fighting \u200bChampionship, is a \u201cviolent Fighter and Warrior,\u201d Trump \u200bwrote in a Truth Social post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump asked for six current or former UFC titleholders to join White, including \u200btwo athletes from Russia\u2019s Dagestan \u200bregion, Islam Makhachev and Khabib Nurmagomedov; Americans Justin \u200cGaethje, \u2060Daniel Cormier and \u201cKayla Harris,\u201d likely a reference to Kayla Harrison; and Amanda Nunes, a Brazilian native who became \u200ban \u200bAmerican citizen \u2060last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe need these people to defend us against the \u200bLunatic Left,\u201d Trump wrote. White \u200band \u2060UFC\u2019s parent company, TKO Group Holdings, did not immediately return requests for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last month, White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia was \u201clet go\u201d, less than a week after she had taken on the role after Trump said he had told her to reconsider the job following public scrutiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI told her: \u2018I think you\u2019re better off being happy, and I\u2019m not sure you can ever be happy in this stuff.\u2019 There\u2019s nothing easy about this stuff,\u201d Trump told reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Zacharia had acknowledged that she had failed the bar exam, a prerequisite for practising law in the United States. 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