Roaring UFC crowd welcomes Trump, chanting 'USA!'

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt

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00:00Last night, President Trump held basically a cabinet meeting at a UFC fight.

00:06He took an entire entourage, including Dana White, down in Miami to the UFC fight.

00:15Brought his granddaughter, Kai, who's a great golfer.

00:18She's University of Miami.

00:20Yeah, I bet they were watching the Masters today.

00:22University of Miami signee to play golf.

00:25I mean, she is an elite, elite golfer.

00:27Yeah, she's absolutely great.

00:29And she has a huge following of her own among young people.

00:32My kids, that's who they would want to meet.

00:34My girls, they want to meet Kai.

00:36But listen, you're absolutely right.

00:37He brought the cabinet, some cabinet members with him as well.

00:42And he gets this rock star welcoming from every time he goes to UFC.

00:47To me, guys, this is Trump has taken back sports.

00:50I was with him at the NCAA wrestling, the Super Bowl, the reception that he is getting, the Georgia, Alabama.

00:59A football game.

01:00Look at this as he's walking in.

01:02Oh, look, and curb your enthusiasm fans who may not otherwise care.

01:06Colt Gabbard's there.

01:07Marco's there because he's in Florida as well.

01:09Oh, this is just badass, man.

01:11Yeah.

01:12And here's the deal.

01:13It's authentic.

01:14When Donald Trump comes in, he loves these fighters.

01:17We've talked about this before.

01:18He likes warriors, and he talks about them, not as athletes, but as warriors.

01:23Listen to the crowd.

01:24Listen to the reception he gives.

01:26U.S.A., U.S.A., U.S.A., U.S.A., U.S.A.

01:52So there you see him with Dana White, and Dana White actually was on Fox last night on

01:56Larry Trump's excellent show, and he talked about what we talked about yesterday, which

02:01was Bill Maher getting to meet Donald Trump in person via their mutual friend, Kid Rock,

02:09and just how, as we all know, because we know the president, we've met him, we also know

02:14people who are wary of the president or think they don't like the president, and then they

02:18meet the president, and they like him, or we know people, and we go, I wish you could

02:22meet him, because he's not the guy you think he is.

02:24Here's Dana White talking about that phenomenon around Donald Trump.

02:30So the first thing that happens is Bill Maher walks into the Oval Office, and me and the

02:35president were in there, and he has a piece of paper with every name that the president

02:41has called him over the last, you know, however many years.

02:43There were like 100 names on this list, and it was hilarious.

02:47Thank God he had two of them, because I had them both sign it, and I'm getting it framed

02:51and hanging it in my office, but I think the coolest thing about that meeting and that

02:57dinner was two guys who have not liked each other for a very long time, two guys who have

03:02many opposing views, got together and sat down and talked, and they talked about a lot of

03:07things that they agree on, and a lot of things that they disagree on, but Kid Rock and I always

03:13say, and you know this better than anybody, nobody walks into a meeting or a dinner with

03:18Donald Trump and walks out and doesn't like him. It's impossible. And if you say you don't,

03:23you're lying.

03:24It's the charm vortex. You fall into the charm vortex.

03:27It's 100% true, and I think this is so important, the way that people are responding

03:32in the sports universe. Trump was controversial in 2016. ESPN tried to turn him into an awful

03:39human being. Men are over it.

03:41He had his golf tournaments canceled.

03:43Remember, the golf tournaments were canceled.

03:44Totally. And ESPN had employees calling him a white supremacist. I mean, and now when you,

03:51they have to first of all cover him walking in with a rock star reception. I mean, that

03:55was ESPN video that we were playing. But I think it's symptomatic, look at all this, of

04:00America healing and people chanting USA and just wanting to be coming together, which is

04:07the best thing about sports. You don't really necessarily think about politics, and you'd

04:11like to respect the president. It feels like we're there again.

04:14That's so interesting because you say that. Dana White alluded to that. You know, we had

04:18Joe Biden was supposed to be the unity president, right? There was no unity during that time.

04:23We had conservatives thrown in jail. We had all kinds of crazy stuff. Is this a unity?

04:30Is this the next four years? Is the Bill Maher convention here at the White House?

04:35This is the unifier that no one saw coming. But what's really interesting about it, and

04:41I know a lot of like sports guys who don't care about politics, they care about sports and

04:45they, you know, I mean, they care about politics. They care about, you know, government and stuff

04:49like that. But their real focus is just not that. But they've been whatever it is, red-pilled

04:55or black-pilled or whatever. And to think about where the credibility, you know, who lost all

05:01the credibility and all that? The media. They will never believe anything the media ever tells

05:06them ever again. And the Democrat Party. I mean, and for a lot of these people sitting watching

05:10the UFC fight, you know, they have men fight men and women fight women. The idea that a man would

05:15identify as a woman and be able to... To fight at UFC.

05:19Men are over it. We're done with the ridiculousness. And I think that's kind of symbolic. Daytona

05:24500, Super Bowl, wrestling championships, the UFC, overwhelming cheering. Maybe the WNBA

05:30all-star game they wouldn't like. But everywhere else, he's got them won.

05:35And I'm a political spouse. I'm a political spouse, so I'm attuned to what that can be like.

05:41It's always treacherous for a politician to enter into a sports arena with a mixed crowd.

05:47A lot of them, as you said, apolitical. And overwhelmingly, people resonate with the fact

05:53that A, he embraces his masculinity. And B, he's a warrior himself. That's why he relates

05:59to athletes in that way.

06:01So quickly, remember, at the NCAA wrestling championship, every wrestler came over to

06:06shake his hand. To your point, Rachel, they had no idea how they were going to react because

06:10it's unscripted. All of them were phenomenal. And again, that story, young men in particular

06:16have broken Trump. And I think you see it with these crowds every single day.

06:19But none of them.

06:20Great point. Unscripted.

06:21Yes.

06:21That is actually the key to Donald Trump.

06:25Yes.

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