President Donald Trump said Saturday that he has offered the job of White House press secretary to his friend and UFC chief executive Dana White, announcing the offer on his social media site.
Trump was at his Florida golf club on Saturday when he posted that he had made the offer to "the Great Dana White, a violent Fighter and Warrior" to become the Republican president's chief spokesperson. No one in the White House immediately confirmed the announcement.
White was in London for a boxing event, and a UFC spokesperson did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment.
White, who runs the world's largest mixed martial arts promotion, has been a prominent supporter of Trump and has appeared with him at UFC events. Trump has attended UFC fights as a guest of White, and the two have spoken warmly about each other in public.
Whether the offer was serious remained unclear on Saturday afternoon. As of then, neither the White House nor the UFC had said anything more about it, leaving open the question of whether the president was joking.
