It’s one of those periods of ‘transition’ every administration faces, and Trump is making some changes. One in particular was pretty wild.
It’s no secret that Karoline Leavitt has been tough to replace. The would-be successor quickly learned the task was more than she could handle. With the hiring of a new Chief of Staff to steer us through 2 years of a hostile Congress, Trump had a little fun at the media’s expense.
He announced that his good friend, and head of the UFC, Dana White would be taking over the role of Press Secretary.
The idea got support from a surprising direction:
Predictably, the memers took the idea and ran with it. Almost as predictably, Trump shared it on social media.
He followed that up with a live appearance of the man himself:
Reporter: “Just to confirm, did you tell the president no to the press secretary job?”
Dana White: “I don’t tell the president no to anything. No, I didn’t say no. I literally, everybody, every media outlet was calling me and I didn’t want to be disrespectful and say anything until he said something first.”
President Trump: “We were having a very bad press day and I said, I don’t know why, I thought of his name. He’s been my friend for a long time. I said, you know, I think I’m going to get Dana White to be my new press secretary. And I sent it to a group of the press, and that was it. I’m sort of kidding. And then they wrote the story as though I wasn’t kidding, and you were inundated, and I was inundated, and he was here anyway. We thought to have a little fun…”
POTUS loves to TOY with the Fake News.
— RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) November 9, 2026
Trump made it pretty clear he was kidding.
But that DID raise another interesting question about how his name came up. Could someone have mentioned a REAL Dana White as a possible successor, and Trump thought it was funny?
That’s the question Snopes was wrestling with. Sure enough — there really is another Dana White:
It is also true that a Black woman with the same name has a career as a communications professional that led her to work at the Pentagon in 2017 and 2018, according to her LinkedIn page.
However, it was not clear whether Trump confused the two Dana Whites, and he later said he intended the offer as a joke. For this reason, we left the claim unrated.
Here’s a photo:
Even they had the integrity this time to admit they had no idea if there was a genuine mixup or if he’s just having a little fun.
