UFC CEO Dana White recaps shots fired at White House Correspondents Dinner: 'F***ing awesome'
White, a longtime friend of President Trump, was surprisingly enthusiastic about the incident.
UFC CEO Dana White was one of many people in attendance at the White House Correspondents Association Dinner on Saturday night, which was interrupted by a series of gunshots heard inside the ballroom . Like many people on the scene, he provided an account of what happened in the immediate aftermath. He did it with … enthusiasm: “Inside, they started up.
All of a sudden, it just started getting noisy. Tables getting flipped over, guys running in with guns and they were screaming ‘Get down! ’ I didn’t get down — it was f***ing awesome.
I literally took every minute of it in. It was a pretty crazy, unique experience. ” It really needs to be conveyed just how visibly overjoyed White seemed while speaking with reporters.
Dana White on the incident at the White House Correspondents Dinner: pic. twitter. com/IPa0QKDGCd — follow @ryanjreilly on bluesky, signal in bio (@ryanjreilly) April 26, 2026 White, a longtime friend and ally of President Donald Trump, said he was sitting at a table near the front of the room, “right in front of where the president was.