I was just kidding”: Donald Trump said the offer he made to UFC chief Dana White to take over as White House press secretary was a joke.
On November 7, the US president offered the UFC chief the job, saying he would become "not a press secretary like everyone else." On November 8, Dana White rejected Donald Trump's offer.
A theory appeared on the Internet that the President of the United States mixed up the candidates for the position of press secretary. A woman named Dana White worked in the War Department (at that time - Defense) - she served as the Pentagon's chief representative under Secretary of Defense James Mattis. Social media users suggest that it was her associates who recommended Trump for the job, rather than the head of the UFC.