UFC President Dana White Reacts To The White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting: “It Was F*cking Awesome”

I guess your brain has to be wired this way if you are in the fighting business!

UFC President and prominent Trump supporter Dana White gave his reaction to the shooting that occurred at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday Night.

White, while leaving the Washington Hilton Hotel, was approached by a reporter who asked for his reaction to the shooting.

White, unlike other guests at the dinner, shared that he did not hide underneath the tables and later added, ” It was awesome.

Fox News provided White’s full reaction to the shooting:

The reactions to the shocking shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner are coming in, but I don’t think you’ll see too many like the one coming from UFC boss Dana White.

White is, of course, a close friend of the president and was invited to the event.

In fact, he was even interviewed on the red carpet and talked about the upcoming UFC Freedom 250 that will take place at the White House on June 14.

But the night took a turn when a gunman stormed a security checkpoint and shot a Secret Service agent, who is, thankfully, expected to be okay.

Fortunately, there have been no reports of attendees being hurt, and President Trump, the first lady, Vice President JD Vance, and other Trump administration officials were taken out of the room while guests hid under tables.

Obviously, the ballroom where the dinner was taking place was filled with more than 2,000 people who were understandably very shaken by what had happened.

However, Dana White was not one of those rattled by it.

As guests were filing out of the Washington Hilton ballroom and the surrounding area, White took a second to talk to some reporters on his way out about what he experienced.

“It started getting noisy, tables started flipping over, guys running in with guns, and they were screaming ‘Get down,'” White said. “I didn’t get down. It was f–king awesome. I literally took every minute of it in, and it was a pretty crazy, unique experience.”

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Watch White here:

UFC CEO Dana White was in attendance during the alleged shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and gave his reaction.

"It was f*cking awesome. I literally took every minute of it in. It was a pretty crazy, unique experience."

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— MMA Junkie (@MMAJunkie) April 26, 2026

White and the Secret Service will soon have their hands full as the UFC and the Trump administration are planning to host a fight on the White House’s front lawn in June.

AP provided further details on the event:

Cage-match fighting is coming to the White House to fete President Donald Trump, a proud proponent of cage-match politics.

In the coming weeks, crews will erect a 6-foot (1.83 meter) wire-mesh fence shaped into an octagon on the lawn, where UFC fighters will use a combination of kickboxing, jiujitsu, wrestling and other martial arts in a June 14 mixed martial arts show timed for Trump’s 80th birthday and as part of the nation’s 250th anniversary.

The celebration of bloody, brute force dovetails with Trump’s gleefully combative charisma and extreme ideological masculinity — a brawling, no-holds-barred approach to the highest office in the land.

“I have respect for fighters, you know, when you can take 200 shots to the face and then look forward to the second round,” Trump told podcaster Logan Paul as he campaigned for his second term.

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Trump was the first sitting president to attend a UFC show, taking in a 2019 fight that was stopped because of a cut over the loser’s eye that left blood pouring down the fighter’s face.