The U.F.C. President, Dana White, on Donald Trump: “He’s Not a Racist”
The New Yorker Radio Hour
WNYC Studios and The New Yorker
4.2 • 6.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The New Yorker Radio Hour is a co-production of WNYC and The New Yorker. |
| 0:08.3 | Welcome to The New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. |
| 0:12.2 | There will be a variety of celebrations to honor America's 250th anniversary this year, and much of it can be easily anticipated. |
| 0:21.3 | Plenty of fireworks, buildings bathed in red, white, and blue lights, even a military parade. |
| 0:27.5 | But something else is happening, something that probably would not be happening if anyone |
| 0:32.8 | other than Donald Trump was in the White House. |
| 0:35.8 | It sounds crazy. |
| 0:37.1 | I know it's going to be very high security and high stress and weird to have a fight at the White |
| 0:42.5 | House in the middle of a fucking war. |
| 0:44.7 | I would hope the war will be sorted out by June, but quite honestly, I'm not confident |
| 0:50.6 | that that's going to be the case. |
| 0:51.9 | No. |
| 0:52.5 | Yeah. |
| 0:52.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:53.4 | So that would be weird. That's Joe Rogan describing the upcoming fight be the case. No. Yeah. Yeah. So that would be weird. |
| 0:59.2 | That's Joe Rogan describing the upcoming fight on the South Lawn of the White House, |
| 1:03.1 | put on by UFC, the ultimate fighting championship. |
| 1:06.1 | That's the Premier League for Mixed Martial Arts, |
| 1:09.6 | where fighters call on a variety of styles from around the world, and it's arguably the most brutal |
| 1:12.0 | professional sport and also one of the most popular. UFC was founded in 1993, but it wasn't a big |
| 1:20.1 | success until Dana White took over as president of the company in 2001. It kept growing and |
| 1:26.9 | growing until last year, the UFC |
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