After embracing President-elect Donald Trump, the Ultimate Fighting Championship chief executive said in an interview this week he won’t help future presidential campaigns, stating he “want[s] nothing to do with politics.

UFC President Dana White played a major role in helping Donald Trump win the 2024 presidential election.White has been a vocal supporter of Trump dating back to before the 2016 election. He campaigned for the Republican president-elect in the months leading up to this year's matchup with Democratic vice president Kamala Harris,

UFC 309 saw the return of heavyweight champion Jon Jones, who successfully returned from a 20-month layoff to defend his title with a third-round TKO of Stipe Miocic, who was coming off an even longer layoff of more than three-and-a-half years. The fight headlined the pay-per-view event at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Despite all of that success, White still seems to feel a deep repugnance to politics as a whole. White told the New Yorker that even though he was happy to play a role in helping Trump win back the White House, he’s done being involved in politics:

Along with the then-Republican candidate’s aggressive new media strategy targeting “bro” podcasters, a strategy which a campaign source dubbed “Trump on steroids” at the time, White was credited with helping Trump court young male voters thanks to the UFC’s fan demographics.

UFC president Dana White, a longtime vocal supporter of President-elect Donald Trump, said last weekend that he most likely won’t get involved in politics again.

UFC CEO Dana White supported President-elect Donald Trump's campaign, including by speaking at both the RNC and Trump's election victory celebration.