UFC Chief and Trump Ally Dana White Joins Meta Board

Dana White, CEO of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and ally of President-elect Donald Trump, has joined the board of directors of Meta, the parent company of Facebook.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Dana White’s inclusion in a Facebook post on Monday, praising her work as an entrepreneur and business leader.

“Dana is the President and CEO of the UFC, and he has built it into one of the most valuable, fastest growing and most popular sports companies in the world. I admire him as an entrepreneur and his ability to build such a beloved brand,” Zuckerberg noted.

Also added to the board are John Elkann, CEO of Italian holding company Exor, and Charlie Songhurst, former Microsoft responsible for corporate strategy.

As NBC News notes, Zuckerberg was “practicing mixed martial arts in recent years and has attended several UFC events, highlighting his enthusiasm for the combat sport.

“In 2023, Zuckerberg tore his ACL during a workout while training for a competitive MMA fight. That year, Zuckerberg and Tesla CEO Elon Musk exchanged verbal remarks and indicated they were ready to fight in a match that White would help produce. But Zuckerberg later said the fight was over because Musk wasn’t ‘serious,'” he added.

Zuckerberg’s inclusion of Dana White comes weeks after the Meta CEO met with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago following his landslide victory over Vice President Kamala Harris. The dinner also came just months after the tech entrepreneur publicly praised President-elect Trump following the July 13 assassination attempt.

“Mark Zuckerberg has been very clear about his desire to be a supporter and a participant in this change that we are seeing across America and around the world with this reform movement led by Donald Trump,” the Trump adviser said, Stephen Miller. to guest host Brian Kilmeade on Ingraham’s angle with Fox News.

Mark Zuckerberg, like so many business leaders, understands that President Trump is an agent of change, an agent of prosperity,” Miller added.

Miller noted that Zuckerberg “has his own interests,” while emphasizing that the Facebook co-founder sees Trump’s second term as a time of “national renewal.”

“Mark, obviously, he has his own interests, he has his own business and he has his own agenda,” Miller said. “But he has made it clear that he wants to support America’s national renewal under the leadership of President Trump.”

Although Zuckerberg has not voiced any support in the 2024 presidential election, he spoke kindly of the president-elect after the July 13 assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.

“Seeing Donald Trump stand up after being shot in the face and wave his fist in the air with the American flag is one of the most evil things I have ever seen in my life,” Zuckerberg told Bloomberg at the time.

“In some ways, as an American, it’s hard not to be moved by that spirit and that fight, and I think that’s why a lot of people love this guy,” he said. added.

Trump previously indicated that he and Mark Zuckerberg were on friendlier terms since the assassination attempt.

“So Mark Zuckerberg called me. First of all, he called me twice. He called me after the event and he said it was really amazing,” he told Fox Business’ Maria Bartiromo in August. “And he actually announced that he wasn’t going to support a Democrat because he couldn’t because he respected me for what I did that day. I think what I did… for me was a normal response.

Trump even said Zuckerberg apologized to him without specifying it, most likely referring to Facebook’s banning of his account following the January 6 Capitol riots.

“He actually apologized. He said they made a mistake…and they’re correcting it,” Trump said.

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