UFC president Dana White revealed President Donald Trump’s resolute reply as he urged the then-presidential hopeful to “quit” his campaign following a failed assassination attempt at an open-air rally in Pennsylvania last July.
White, a longtime Trump ally, shared the details in an interview aired Monday night with British journalist Piers Morgan for his show Uncensored.
‘Why are you doing this stuff? Stop’. I told him to stop so many times. It’s just like, ‘You have such a good life, and you could do all these other things’. But the thing is, with President Trump is he believes in God, and he’s very religious…He believes that, to his core, that God has spared his life to be the President and do the things that he’s going to do over the next four years.
“I can’t quit. You don’t ever quit. You never quit,” Trump told White.
White, who was on a flight to Italy when the attack happened, recalled the moment his wife woke him up with the news.
My wife woke me up and said: ‘They just shot President Trump’. I was freaking out, texting the family, and when I landed, I called him, and he was already home from the hospital and unfazed. I mean, unfazed, and everybody wants to talk smack.
Trump’s composure in the aftermath stunned White.
The next day, he went to Milwaukee for the RNC. The next day. I mean, there
are people who have been shot at and not killed that won’t leave their house, you know, and then there’s PTSD and lots of different things that can happen to you mentally. He’s one of the strongest, if not the strongest mentally tough guys that I’ve ever met.
White then took a swipe at critics who mocked Trump’s response to the shooting, singling out former WWE wrestler Dave Bautista for a Jimmy Kimmel Live! skit mocking Trump’s masculinity in a way the UFC president called “disgusting and gross.”
Let me tell you what Bautista, and anybody else out there, the way that Trump reacted to that assassination, every man hopes that that’s the way you would react. If you reacted this much to how Trump reacted to that thing, you’d be happy.
Does Trump rank with the toughest and strongest fighters in the UFC, Morgan pressed.
“There’s no doubt about it,” White said.
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