WASHINGTON — President Trump surprised journalists with a last-minute press briefing Monday featuring UFC CEO Dana White — warning them “he’s going to beat the hell out of you.”
Trump brought the cagefighting executive to the briefing room after floating him over the weekend as his possible next White House press secretary.
“I’ve always wanted to do this. Who has the first question?” White joked as he took the lectern, clarifying he had no “political aspirations” and wasn’t planning to become Trump’s spokesman.
White entertained a question about whether Trump would beat former President Joe Biden in an Octagon showdown, saying it “would be very bad” for Trump’s predecessor.
Trump says he floated White for press secretary jokingly because “we were having a very bad press day.”
