Dana White says he refused to get down throughout White Home Correspondents' Dinner capturing

[ad_1] The reactions to the surprising capturing on the White House Correspondents' Dinner are coming in, however I do not suppose you may see too many just like the one coming from UFC boss Dana White.

White is, in fact, a detailed good friend of the president and was invited to the occasion.

In truth, he was even interviewed on the pink carpet and talked concerning the upcoming UFC Freedom 250 that can happen on the White Home on June 14.

UFC President and CEO Dana White reacts throughout a bantamweight struggle between Adrian Luna Martinetti of Ecuador and Mark Vologdin of Russia at Dana White's Contender Collection season 9, week 9 at UFC APEX in Las Vegas, Nev., on Oct. 7, 2025. (Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC)

However the evening took a flip when a gunman stormed a security checkpoint and shot a Secret Service agent, who's, fortunately, anticipated to be okay.

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Thankfully, there have been no reviews of attendees being damage, and President Trump, the primary woman, Vice President JD Vance , and different Trump administration officers had been taken out of the room whereas visitors hid underneath tables.

Clearly, the ballroom the place the dinner was going down was stuffed with greater than 2,000 individuals who had been understandably very shaken by what had occurred.

Nonetheless, Dana White was not a kind of rattled by it.

As visitors had been submitting out of the Washington Hilton ballroom and the encircling space, White took a second to speak to some reporters on his means out about what he skilled.

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"It began getting noisy, tables began flipping over, guys working in with weapons, and so they had been screaming 'Get down,'" White mentioned. "I did not get down. It was f--king superior. I actually took each minute of it in, and it was a reasonably loopy, distinctive expertise."

U.S. Marshalls stroll by the foyer of the Washington Hilton after photographs had been heard through the White Home Correspondents' Dinner in Washington, D.C., on April 25, 2026. Tactical groups took positions on the stage the place President Donald Trump had been seated earlier than he was evacuated. (Alex Wroblewski/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)

White mentioned he was sitting proper in entrance of the pinnacle desk, the place the president, vp and first woman, press secretary Karoline Leavitt , White Home Correspondents’ Affiliation members and others had been seated.

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"Guys got here in in search of shooters," he continued. "They got here towards our desk. I assumed the shooter was over by us or one thing."

I do not suppose too many individuals would react to a state of affairs of this magnitude the best way Dana White did, however he is actually constructed otherwise.