Dana White makes shock political U-turn after backing Donald Trump in the election

Dana White was a quasi-permanent fixture connected Donald Trump's run proceedings arsenic helium threw his afloat enactment down the Republican campaigner successful his bid to question re-election. 

The UFC president, who is adjacent friends with the 78-year-old, has been specified an ardent protagonist that helium adjacent stole the limelight during Trump's triumph celebrations astatine Mar-a-Lago aft beating Kamala Harris astatine the ballot box.  

But present that Trump has sealed his instrumentality to the White House, the UFC chief wants thing to do with the president-elect's 2nd word - oregon authorities astatine all. 

'I'm ne'er f***ing doing this again,' helium told The New Yorker. 'I privation thing to bash with this s***. It's gross. It's disgusting. I privation thing to bash with politics.'

It appears the GOP volition not beryllium capable to trust connected White for endorsement successful the aboriginal with his confederation extending to Trump, and Trump alone. 

With Trump's statesmanlike run marking the archetypal and past foray into authorities for White, it is nary existent astonishment that the 45th president is the sole recipient of White's governmental backing. 

White has been a long-time person and ardent protagonist of Trump with the erstwhile president echoing the enactment successful his backing of UFC implicit the years.

Trump tapped the UFC President and CEO to talk for him astatine the past 3 Republican National Conventions earlier inviting him to the onstage triumph enactment pursuing this month's predetermination triumph.

White was invited to accidental a fewer words astatine the podium connected the stage, and aft immoderate glowing praise for Trump, launched into what seemed to beryllium a triumph code of his own.

And the UFC president continued to praise Trump this week, hailing him arsenic 1 of the toughest men helium knows. 

'Donald Trump is tougher and much badass than anybody,' White besides told The New Yorker. 'You tin lone commune that you're a 4th of the antheral that Donald Trump was erstwhile a feline tried to instrumentality 7 shots astatine his caput with a precocious powered firearm with a fucking scope connected it.' 

And Trump has reciprocated White's enactment implicit the past fewer decades, publically backing the UFC - adjacent claiming to beryllium its savior. 

Trump has regularly attended combat nights, astir precocious arriving cageside astatine Madison Square Garden for UFC 309 with Elon Musk and White successful tow past weekend. 

'As the UFC has grown, there's been a batch of radical that person jumped connected the bandwagon and became fans,' White said. 'Trump was determination from the beginning.' 

Trump basked successful his post-election glory astatine the UFC lawsuit - the archetypal since his re-election - erstwhile American combatant Jon Jones appeared to dedicate his triumph to the president-elect.

Jones emerged victorious successful beforehand of the president-elect astatine Madison Square Garden wherever helium got into the patriotic tone aft a knockout triumph implicit Stipe Miocic .

Jones and Trump shook hands and capped a combat nighttime charged with authorities arsenic overmuch arsenic punches wrong a raucous MSG wherever 'USA!' chants echoed done the arena.

'A big, large convey you to President Donald Trump for being present tonight,' Jones said wrong the cage earlier presenting Trump with the loop and imitating the president-elect's now-iconic arm-shimmy dance.

'I'm arrogant to beryllium a large American champion. I'm arrogant to beryllium a Christian-American champion.'

After leaving the cage, the UFC Heavyweight champion made his mode implicit to wherever Trump was sitting with Musk and handed him his title belt.