UFC boss Dana White said he repeatedly begged Donald Trump to drop out of politics after last year’s assassination attempt — but the defiant president shot back, “You don’t ever quit.”
“The way Trump reacted to the assassination attempt, every man hopes that’s the way you would react,” White, 55, told Piers Morgan on his “Uncensored” Monday night of Trump getting shot at while speaking at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania last July.
When he managed to speak to Trump, 78, immediately after the attempted assassination, White urged him to give up his campaign — telling the commander in chief: “Why are you doing this stuff? Stop.”
“I told him to stop so many times. It’s just like, ‘You have such a good life, and you could do all these other thing,’” White recalled.
“But the thing is, with President Trump is he believes in God, and he’s very religious … He believes that, to his core, that God has spared his life to be the president and do the things that he’s going to do over the next four years.”
Trump also told the UFC boss: “I can’t quit. You don’t ever quit. You never quit.”
“He’s the most resilient human being I’ve met in my life,” White added.
White, who was among the high-profile figures to stump for the Republican during the campaign, said Trump’s composure after the first attempt on his life left him stunned.
“The next day, he went to Milwaukee for the [Republican National Convention]. The next day. I mean, there are people who have been shot at and not killed that won’t leave their house, you know, and then there’s PTSD and lots of different things that can happen to you mentally,” he said.
“He’s one of the strongest, if not the strongest mentally tough guys that I’ve ever met.”
