President Trump just offered UFC CEO Dana White the job of White House press secretary — and if he takes it, the DC press corps will have to square off against a cage fighter instead of a teleprompter-reading spokesmodel.
Trump announced the offer Saturday on Truth Social, declaring White a "violent Fighter and Warrior" who would be "a Press Secretary like none other." The president even named White's would-be deputies: UFC fighters Islam Makhachev, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Justin Gaethje, Daniel Cormier, Amanda Nunes, and Kayla Harris. "We need these people to defend us against the Lunatic Left," Trump wrote. "Dana, please take the job!"
The New York Post — owned by the same Murdoch machine that spent years platforming never-Trump Republicans — couldn't help but signal to its readers that this probably wasn't serious, calling the offer "tongue-in-cheek" and noting Trump posted images of growling UFC fighters alongside one of White in a suit behind a podium. The Post Millennial reported the offer straight, without the eye-roll.
Whether Trump is serious or just trolling the briefing room doesn't much matter to the working Americans who've watched press secretaries from both parties dodge, spin, and lie for decades. The White House press secretary job has become a ritual: a slick operative feeds packaged talking points to a room full of correspondents who pretend to challenge them, and nothing of substance ever reaches the public. Dana White — a guy who built a billion-dollar fighting empire by speaking bluntly and skipping the usual PR song-and-dance — is the exact opposite of that model.
The offer also comes hours after Trump nominated Stephen Miller — a political pugilist of a different sort — as White House chief of staff. The pattern is clear: Trump is staffing up with fighters, not flacks.
The DC press corps will laugh this off as a stunt. They laughed off Trump in 2016, too. The question isn't whether White takes the job. It's whether the people who've monopolized the microphone for decades finally realize the audience has left the room.
