UFC’s Dana White discusses Maher’s surprising Trump dinner on ‘Flagrant’

UFC President Dana White appeared on comic Andrew Schulz’s “Flagrant” podcast Tuesday, and the 2 praised late-night host Invoice Maher for visiting President Donald Trump on the White Home in March.

Maher, a longtime critic of Trump, revealed the small print of his go to on “Actual Time” shortly after assembly the president, saying he was friendlier and extra good-humored than he anticipated.

Talking of Maher’s journey to the White Home, Schulz the UFC president said: “I commend Invoice for going, by the way in which.”

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Dana White speaks earlier than President-elect Donald Trump arrives at a rally forward of the sixtieth presidential inauguration. August 19, 2025, in Washington. (Matt Rourke/AP)

White, who was current throughout Maher’s go to, agreed and supplied extra perception into how the night unfolded between the 2 males.

“[Maher] goes in, we sit down for dinner, they usually commute in regards to the coverage and what they agree with, what they disagree with. We undergo your entire dinner and after dinner Trump provides Invoice Maher a full tour of the White Home. Like an unimaginable tour,” White defined.

“Take into consideration how lengthy this man has supported Democrats, something. Nobody ever invited him to tour the White Home. President Trump did,” he added.

Along with applauding Maher for assembly with somebody he has been publicly criticized for for years, White additionally credited the host for being trustworthy about his interplay with the president.

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“And once more, to Invoice’s credit score, he went on air and stated, ‘Properly, I can inform you this. The person I’ve hated for thirty years wasn’t at this dinner.’ And you understand, he advised the reality,” White stated.

Schulz famous that assembly somebody in particular person provides you a “three-dimensional view” of who somebody really is “as a human being,” and that it “will be scary to see that somebody you do not like seems pleasant and sort and is an actual human being.”

Comic and podcaster Andrew Schulz speaks on stage as Netflix is ​​a Joke presents FYSEE LA Comedy Night time at The Comedy Retailer on Might 29, 2025 in West Hollywood, California. (Getty Photos)

“It is like, ‘Wow, I used to be speculated to hate this particular person,’ after which it seems he is really dad. I do not need to hate somebody who’s type of dad. what I imply?” Schulz requested. “I feel that is that visceral response the place you begin saying, ‘I’ve to carry on to my view of the particular person I hate, and I’ll combat tooth and nail to try this.'”

A few week after his go to to the White Home, Maher mirrored on his assembly with Trump, stunning those that thought he had nothing constructive to say in regards to the president.

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‘You possibly can hate me for it, however I am not a liar. Trump was pleasant and average,” Maher stated. “And why is not he in different conditions? I do not know, and I am unable to reply, and it is less than me to reply. I am simply telling you what I noticed, and I wasn’t excessive.”

Maher mocked those that handled the White Home go to as if it have been “some type of summit” hosted by their mutual buddy Child Rock, calling them “ridiculous.”

“I’ve no energy. I am a comic, and he is probably the most highly effective chief on the planet!” Maher exclaimed. “I am not the chief of something, besides maybe a contingent of centrist-minded individuals who assume there have to be a greater method to run this nation than hating one another each minute.”

Maher stated Trump was extra gracious and good-humored than he anticipated. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Photos; Todd Owyoung/NBC through Getty Photos)

Maher shared a printout of insults Trump had leveled at him over time, which Trump signed in “good humor.”

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Throughout his look on the “Flagrant” podcast on Tuesday, White shared extra particulars about Maher asking Trump to signal the insult listing. The UFC president revealed that earlier than asking Trump to signal the printout, the president supplied Maher a Coca-Cola, however the comic joked that he wanted “one thing tougher than a Coke” to calm his nerves.

“So [Maher] begins ingesting, and he brings on this listing of all of the issues the president has known as him over the past thirty years, and I stated, ‘That is nice,'” White recalled. “I actually acquired them each signed. I’ve it they usually each signed it, and it hangs out the entrance once you come as much as the chief places of work within the elevators within the UFC, it hangs on the wall.”

Joseph A. Wulfsohn of Fox Information contributed to this report.