Former United States President Donald Trump has a pretty prominent friendship with UFC President Dana White as Trump has been seen attending UFC events alongside White on multiple occasions. And it seems that Trump is comfortable enough in his friendship with White to make some absolutely baffling suggestions to the UFC president
During a recent speech at a conservative religious conference, Donald Trump revealed that he once had an absolutely insane idea for Dana White, telling him that he should start a “migrant league of fighters” in addition to his standard UFC league.
“I said, ‘Dana, I have an idea. Why don’t you set up a migrant league of fighters, and have your regular league of fighters, and then you have the champion of your league — these are the greatest fighters in the world — fight the champion of the migrants?’” Trump said during the conference, according to Kyle Griffin of MSNBC.
Obviously, this is a disgusting and hateful thing for anyone to suggest, let alone someone running for president. But it’s also not clear what Trump even means by this. UFC has been full of immigrants and people of all nationalities throughout its existence with fighters from more than 100 countries across the world participating in the league. Adding a “migrant league” doesn’t even make sense given the number of current UFC fighters that are not American.
Needless to say, this disgusting suggestion from Trump led to a lot of reactions on social media.
You’re kidding right? A disgusting conversation between two white men
— Maile (@MailePRMedia) June 22, 2024
Just when we think Trump can’t get any more vile…
— Art Candee 🍿🥤 (@ArtCandee) June 22, 2024
This man is both profoundly unwell and profoundly stupid https://t.co/UK9AaGotWF
— Tyler Hansen (@tjhansen) June 22, 2024
Wh-what? https://t.co/cdvU59UmSc
— Rainytown (@Mikeyjonaslou) June 22, 2024
I can’t https://t.co/Oy4SlYgVHL
— Clarence Hill Jr (@clarencehilljr) June 22, 2024
Just. Plain. Sick. https://t.co/oQBVrD9OBL
— Kenneth Mihalik (@HoldBackTheNite) June 22, 2024
— Kareem (@Kareem_is_it) June 22, 2024
This man is disgusting. https://t.co/noAiQqQQzc
— Claudia Hernandez (@ClaudiaAHndz) June 22, 2024
Add this to the long and infuriating list of things that Trump gets away with that would have ended the career of any national politician over the last 40 years in American life. https://t.co/mwwZygqan8
— Ben Gardner (@BenGardner87) June 22, 2024
Clearly, people were not happy with Trump.
