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Dana White The Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO on manhood, his friendship with Donald Trump, and the future of the fight business

TIME Magazine

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September 30, 2024

Why do you think Donald Trump asked you, and not a family member, to introduce him at July's Republican National Convention? Listen, he and I are really, really good friends. What I think, and from what his kids have told me, I am the one guy he connects with. They call it "bro-out"-we bro-out together.

- SEAN GREGORY

Dana White The Ultimate Fighting Championship CEO on manhood, his friendship with Donald Trump, and the future of the fight business

Coming out of the conventions, there's been a fair bit of commentary about masculinity. The RNC featured Hulk Hogan; DNC highlighted Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff's self-effacing humor. It's been labeled "toxic" vs. "tonic" masculinity. Has our politics offered competing visions of what it means to be a man?

It's a great question. This friend of mine was telling me, she's got a girlfriend who was saying, "You know what, I'm way more attracted to Trump's supporters. I like real men." It's funny, it's fascinating, and interesting that there is so much emphasis on, What is a real man? I don't really know what to make of it.

Well, what, in your mind, does it mean to be a man?

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