'He's been offered the job': Trump tried to recruit Dana White as press secretary, but the UFC CEO rejected the offer

President Donald Trump announced this Saturday that he offered Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) CEO Dana White the position of White House press secretary. However, CNN reported a few hours later that the businessman reportedly declined the offer.

The president made the proposal public this Saturday via a post on his official Truth Social account, in which he claimed to have asked White to bring along several mixed martial arts fighters to assist him in the role, explaining in an apparently joking tone that this would be necessary to protect himself from the far left. "I am pleased to announce that the Great Dana White, a violent Fighter and Warrior, has been offered the job of Press Secretary of the United States. I have requested that he bring with him assistants, even though some are not from our Country, of Islam Makhachev, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Justin Gaethje, Daniel Cormier, Amanda Nunes, and Kayla Harris. We need these people to defend us against the Lunatic Left. Dana will be a Press Secretary like none other. Dana, please take the job!" the president wrote.

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The proposal comes amid the close relationship that Trump and White have maintained over the past few years. Over the summer, the company organized a mixed martial arts event on the South Lawn of the White House as part of the celebrations marking the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence. The event also brought together prominent figures from the business and technology worlds, highlighting the president's ties to leading corporate executives.

Similarly, Trump's post came as the Republican president appears to be seeking a cabinet reshuffle following the disastrous results of the midterm elections, in which Democrats unleashed a veritable tsunami by seizing control of both chambers of Congress and winning in states like Texas and even South Carolina.

So far, the most striking personnel change Trump has made since the election was the dismissal of his chief of staff, Susie Wiles, to be replaced by the current deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, a decision that has surprised many, as he is widely considered one of the main culprits behind the midterm debacle for being the architect of policies such as the crackdown on immigrants.