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like. A lot of prominent people are not that great honestly and you know that because they're not loyal to the people who work for them. Loyalty is a prerequisite for an honorable life and Dana White has demonstrated it to the people around him. He's also loyal to his friends even if his friends turn out to be the most controversial people in the world and Dana White is friends with Donald Trump. They've been friends for decades and as a result of that he spoke when Trump asked him at the Republican National Convention in 2016. Took a lot of heat for that but he didn't care. He's not afraid that maybe is the most obvious point about Dana White. He's just not afraid maybe because his work at some dumb nonprofit or the Washington Post he's in a very violent sport. In any case he's not afraid to tell us about his relationship with Trump and it was worth hearing. Here's part of it. So I talked to Trump yesterday about you and he described you as the only essential person in all American sports. He said you can keep people out of any sport and the sport will continue. If Dana White left UFC there couldn't be UFC. Now I don't know what you think of that assessment but it did make me wonder how long are you the same age as I am 53. How long are you going to do this? Well I love them and I appreciate that and hopefully I've built a business over the last 22 years that no matter who comes and goes will last and continue to grow. I also know for a fact that when I do leave the right person needs to be in place to take over because there is a formula to this business. Many other people have tried it. Many people are trying it right now as we speak and have not been successful and I know why they haven't been successful. I know exactly why they haven't been successful and when I watch them you know running their businesses I just I just shake my head and go yeah yeah. So hopefully when I do decide to leave which isn't gonna be anytime soon because I still love what I'm doing. Still as passionate about it as I was day one I have the right people in place. Plus I built a phenomenal team here phenomenal team you know no one guy just does anything you know you need a really great team to surround yourself with and I've done that and that's why you know there's no way that I was gonna let any of these people leave when COVID hit. I knew that you knew Trump and I knew you're a Trump supporter broadly speaking I didn't realize you were like a legit old friend of Trump's because of work. Can you explain that? He's a very very good friend of mine. Donald Trump has been such a good friend to me since the day I met him. We originally when we bought this company this company had such a bad stigma attached to it in the sport that we couldn't even get into venues venues didn't want us and Donald Trump saw that this thing could possibly be big plus he's a sports guy he loves sports and he offered us to come do the event at the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City cut us a very fair deal we went down there and we did two events with him he showed up for the first fight stayed till the last fight and you can imagine back then Trump brand here UFC brand down here yeah but he took us in and he was great everything that ever happened to me in my career after that day the first guy to reach out and say congratulations was Donald Trump whether it was amazing letter we were on the cover of the New York Times one time and he said I always knew you were gonna do it Dana congratulations and sent me the paper sent me a pen one time congratulating me you know always sending something and saying congratulations like a guy who was genuinely happy for your success there aren't a ton of those no and then came the day he was running for president and he reached out to me he called me one day and he said he started the conversation like this if you don't want to do this I completely understand and there are no hard feelings but I would be honored if you would speak for me at the at the National Republican Convention I said I'll be there the first guy that recognized the potential that we saw in the UFC and encouraged us to build our business he hosted our first two events at his venue he dealt with us personally he got in the trenches with us and he made a deal that worked for everyone so you're the best man you've always been a great guy to me you've been a good friend of me and I spoke that day and let me tell you what after that day when I spoke for him at the convention our friendship went to a whole nother level this guy's been so good to me it's unexplainable that's fascinating yeah and a window into something that we don't get to see did you take a lot of abuse for that or do people just accept that this is a real friendship yeah you know I I'm in the I'm in the abuse business we take abuse every day so I don't know you'd have to you have to explain to me what the abuse on the Trump side would be you know I get it there's people you know that this is this is what's sad you know obviously I did not vote for president Biden he's my president he's the president of the United States right now and I'm American I don't dislike or hate anybody who voted for Biden the fact that you're the type of person that would actually hate somebody because of who they voted for shows me exactly who you are I don't want to know you anyway yeah you're not my kind of person and I don't want to be friends with you either so the feeling is very mutual and it's not because of who you voted for it's because of how you carry yourself who you vote for what you decide to do with your life means nothing to me that's that's your own personal choice in America this is a free country and you can choose to vote or do whatever you want to do with your personal life this is a free country well it's nice to be reminded of that it's also nice to see a man who's loyal to his friends you've got to be loyal to your friends more than to some greaseball politician is promising to save your soul he's lying your friends are not working on a documentary for Tucker Carlson originals about the UFC and Dana White we got a lot of access the facilities met a bunch of the fighters we think it's interesting it'll be out this winter on Fox Nation so if the animal part of you is starting to tell the higher reasoning part of you that this is turning into a police state don't ignore your instincts Joe Biden is targeted his major political opponents of course now the war against dissent

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