Dana White defiantly said that the UFC wouldn’t stop putting on fights during the COVID pandemic and the gamble paid off huge.

After embracing President-elect Donald Trump, the Ultimate Fighting Championship chief executive said in an interview this week he won’t help future presidential campaigns, stating he “want[s] nothing to do with politics.

UFC President Dana White played a major role in helping Donald Trump win the 2024 presidential election.White has been a vocal supporter of Trump dating back to before the 2016 election. He campaigned for the Republican president-elect in the months leading up to this year's matchup with Democratic vice president Kamala Harris,

Despite all of that success, White still seems to feel a deep repugnance to politics as a whole. White told the New Yorker that even though he was happy to play a role in helping Trump win back the White House, he’s done being involved in politics:

Along with the then-Republican candidate’s aggressive new media strategy targeting “bro” podcasters, a strategy which a campaign source dubbed “Trump on steroids” at the time, White was credited with helping Trump court young male voters thanks to the UFC’s fan demographics.

UFC president Dana White, a longtime vocal supporter of President-elect Donald Trump, said last weekend that he most likely won’t get involved in politics again.