Ufc Ceo Dana White Brags He Refused To Duck For Cover While Calling Correspondence Dinner Shooting: ‘f*****g Awesome’

Dana White struck a unsocial reside aft calling nan White House Correspondence Dinner shooting “f****g awesome” successful comments that dispersed connected societal media.

White, nan CEO of UFC, was among nan thousands successful attendance astatine nan Washington Hilton edifice erstwhile authorities opportunity 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen, equipped pinch a shotgun, handgun and “multiple knives,” attempted to large wind nan event.

As many, including Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika, reacted successful horror to nan unfolding events, White, 56, took a different view.

“It started to get noisy. Tables started getting flipped over, guys moving pinch guns and they were screaming, 'Get down!'. I didn't get down. It was f*****g awesome and I virtually took each infinitesimal of it in,” he told USA Today.

“It was a beautiful crazy, unsocial experience. We were sitting correct successful beforehand of nan table, correct successful beforehand of wherever nan president was. Nobody sewage tackled but guys came successful looking for shooters, I thought nan shooter was complete by america aliases something.”

White is simply a keen state of President Donald Trump and is group to beforehand an MMA arena connected nan White House section connected June 14, nan commandant successful chief’s birthday, arsenic portion of nan United States 250th day celebrations.

White was a impermanent of Paramount Skydance, nan broadcaster down UFC, astatine nan event. He was sitting astatine nan caput table, wherever President Trump, nan first lady, and Karoline Leavitt were seated.

Meanwhile, nan president was quick to thank nan Secret Service agents who took down nan fishy and said that nan arena would spell up astatine a later date.

“The consequence clip was really incredible, and we’re going to reschedule. We’re going to do it again, we’re not going to fto anybody return complete our society; we’re not going to cancel things because we can’t do that. We wanted to enactment tonight. I will show you, I fought for illustration hellhole to stay, but it was protocol.”

In 2025, White told Piers Morgan successful an interview that successful nan aftermath of nan effort connected Trump’s life successful Butler, Pennsylvania, he urged nan president to driblet retired of nan race.

The incident occurred erstwhile White was flying to Italy, he said. When he landed, he called Trump, who was already location astatine that point. He was “unfazed” by nan harrowing encounter, White recalled.

“Why are you doing this? Stop. Stop,” he said. “I told him to extremity truthful galore times.”

“You person specified a bully life and you tin do truthful galore things,” White recalled telling Trump astatine nan time. “He believes he believes successful God…he’s very religious.”

Trump besides told Morgan that “he thinks God must’ve had a scheme for me. God wanted maine to past that bullet,” nan seasoned British presenter revealed.

Trump was struck successful nan receptor by a bullet, nan FBI said successful nan weeks pursuing nan attack.

White agreed: “He believes that to his core. That God has spared his life to beryllium nan president and do nan things that he’s going to do complete nan adjacent 4 years.”