UFC President Dana White reacted passionately to the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump over the weekend. During his radio appearance on Monday, White emphasized one undeniable fact about Trump’s character.
A photograph surfaced showing Trump bloodied after being shot in the ear at his campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday. Despite the injury, Trump was seen defiantly yelling, “Fight,” to his supporters.
White was on a plane when the assassination attempt occurred. He appeared on “The Pat McAfee Show” on Monday and praised Trump as an “American badass.”
“I’ve been saying this forever about this guy,” White told McAfee. “He is one of the toughest, most resilient human beings I’ve ever met in my life. And let me tell you what, everybody wants to act like a tough guy. … Well, when the s— goes down, you find out who the tough guys are and who the tough guys are not. This guy is the legitimate, ultimate American badass of all-time.
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“The guy takes a shot at him. He goes down. He stands up. And then he starts chanting to the crowd, ‘Fight, fight, fight.’ I literally was blown away. I called him as soon as I landed … and he was already home from the hospital, and we talked for like 30 minutes. Pat, I’m telling you, I have never known a human being like this in my life. He’s literally one of the toughest, most badass guys of all time.
“Listen, you don’t like him, you could say whatever you want about him. It is undebatable now, literally undebatable. This sniper tried to take a shot at him and missed him by millimeters – bullet through the ear.”
White drew a personal comparison to highlight Trump’s resilience. “I had a buddy in Boston, where we grew up, and a bunch of guys tried to kill him one night outside of a bar. He was never the same again. He literally moved out of South Boston and went down [the] South Shore and was never the same again mentally. This guy’s almost 80 years old, the guy tried to blow his head off, and to have the reaction that he did when he got up … this guy has been a friend of mine for 25 years, one of the greatest human beings I’ve ever met. He’s an unbelievable friend, and he’s forever now the ultimate American badass.
“That picture you just showed, that will forever go down in history 100 years after we’re dead.”
White is reportedly set to speak at the Republican National Convention this week.
