Dana White, CEO of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and ally of President-elect Donald Trump, has joined the board of directors of Facebook parent company Meta.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Dana White's arrival in a Facebook post on Monday, praising his accomplishments as an entrepreneur and business leader.
“Dana is the President and CEO of the UFC and has built the UFC into one of the most valuable, fastest growing and most popular sports companies in the world. I've admired his ability to build beloved brands,” Zuckerberg said.
John Elkann, CEO of Italian holding company Exor, and former CEO Charlie Songhurst have also joined the board. microsoft Head of Corporate Strategy.
as noticed According to NBC News, Zuckerberg said,He has been practicing mixed martial arts in recent years and has participated in several UFC events, highlighting his passion for martial arts. ”
“In 2023, Zuckerberg tore his anterior cruciate ligament during a sparring session as part of training for a mixed martial arts bout. That year, Zuckerberg and Tesla CEO Elon Musk But Zuckerberg then suggested they were willing to fight each other in a match White helped produce. said “The fight is over because Mr. Musk wasn't 'serious,'” he added.
Zuckerberg's addition of Dana White comes weeks after the Meta CEO met with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago following his landslide victory over Vice President Kamala Harris. The dinner also came just months after the technology entrepreneur publicly praised President-elect Trump following the July 13 assassination attempt.
“Mark Zuckerberg is a champion of the changes being seen across America and around the world by this reform movement led by Donald Trump, and he is committed to joining the movement,” said Stephen Miller, an adviser to President Trump. “I've made it very clear that I want to be like that.” said To guest host Brian Kilmeade Ingraham Angle with Fox News.
“Mark Zuckerberg, like many business leaders, understands that President Trump is an agent of change and an agent of prosperity,” Miller added.
Miller said that Zuckerberg “has his own interests,” but stressed that the Facebook co-founder sees Trump's second term as a period of “national renewal.”
“Mark, obviously he has his own interests, his own company, his own policies,” Miller said. “But he has made it clear that he wants to support America's national rebirth under President Trump's leadership.”
Mr. Zuckerberg did not announce his support during the 2024 presidential campaign, but spoke kindly of the president-elect after the July 13 assassination attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania.
“Seeing Donald Trump get shot in the face and stand up and raise an American flag and raise his fist in the air is one of the worst things I've ever seen in my life,” Zuckerberg told Bloomberg at the time. he told Bloomberg.
“As an American, in some ways it's hard not to get emotional about that spirit and that fight. I think that's why so many people like this guy,” he added.
Trump has previously suggested he has a friendlier relationship with Mark Zuckerberg since the assassination attempt.
“So Mark Zuckerberg called me. First of all, he called me twice. He called me after the event and said it was really great.” he told Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo in August. “And in fact, he announced that he wasn't going to support the Democratic Party, because he respected what I did that day. I can't support it.” What I did was…a normal reaction for me. I think it was. ”
Mr. Trump went so far as to say that Mr. Zuckerberg had apologized without providing details, possibly in reference to Facebook's banning of his account following the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. It seems that there are.
“He actually apologized. He said they made a mistake…and they're correcting the mistake,” President Trump said.
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