‘We adore it’: President Donald Trump sends video message congratulating Dana White and UFC for holding UFC 249 occasion (VIDEO)

United States President Donald Trump despatched a message of congratulations to Dana White and the UFC for being the primary main sports activities league to return to motion following the COVID-19 shutdown.

Trump has earmarked sports activities leagues as the start line for a gradual restart of the US economic system, and he invited White, who spoke for him on the Republican Nationwide Conference, to be part of a session group that additionally included the NBA’s Adam Silver and the NFL’s Roger Goodell, amongst different main US sports activities stakeholders.

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White’s makes an attempt to carry UFC 249 noticed the occasion switched from Brooklyn to Lemoore, then to Jacksonville, the place the occasion ultimately befell.

And Trump despatched a video message to the UFC and White to convey his congratulations for getting the sports activities world again underway once more.

“It is an honor to be right here, and it is an honor to salute you,” he mentioned from the White Home garden.

“I need to congratulate Dana White and the UFC. They will have an enormous match. We adore it. We expect it is necessary.

“Get the sports activities leagues again, let’s play. You do the social distancing and no matter else you need to do. However we want sports activities.

“We wish our sports activities again, and congratulations to Dana White (and the) UFC.”

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