UFC boss Dana White mentioned he repeatedly begged Donald Trump to drop out of politics after final yr’s assassination try — however the defiant president shot again, “You don’t ever quit.”
“The way Trump reacted to the assassination attempt, every man hopes that’s the way you would react,” White, 55, advised Piers Morgan on his “Uncensored” Monday night time of Trump getting shot at whereas talking at a marketing campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania final July.
When he managed to talk to Trump, 78, instantly after the tried assassination, White urged him to surrender his marketing campaign — telling the commander in chief: “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 thing,’” White recalled.
“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.”
Trump additionally advised the UFC boss: “I can’t quit. You don’t ever quit. You never quit.”
“He’s the most resilient human being I’ve met in my life,” White added.
White, who was among the many high-profile figures to stump for the Republican in the course of the marketing campaign, mentioned Trump’s composure after the primary try on his life left him shocked.
“The next day, he went to Milwaukee for the [Republican National Convention]. 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 mentioned.
“He’s one of the strongest, if not the strongest mentally tough guys that I’ve ever met.”
