Dana White, CEO of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and an ally of President-elect Donald Trump, has joined the board of directors of Facebook parent company Meta.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the addition of Dana White in a Facebook post on Monday, praising her work as an entrepreneur and business leader.
“Dana is the Chairman and CEO of UFC, and he has built it into one of the most valuable, fastest-growing and most popular sports enterprises in the world. “I have admired him as an entrepreneur and his ability to build such a beloved brand,” Zuckerberg said.
The board of directors also included John Elkann and former CEO of Italian holding company Exor, Charlie Songhurst. Microsoft Head of Corporate Strategy.
As NBC News noted, Zuckerberg “Has practiced mixed martial arts in recent years and has participated in several UFC events, underscoring his enthusiasm for combat sports.
“In 2023, Zuckerberg tore his ACL during a sparring session as part of training for a competitive MMA fight. That year, Zuckerberg and Tesla CEO Elon Musk spar verbally and hinted that they were ready to fight each other in a match, which White would help prepare. But Zuckerberg later said the fight had stopped because Musk was not ‘serious.’
Zuckerberg’s inclusion of Dana White comes just weeks after the Meta CEO met with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago following his sweeping victory over Vice President Kamala Harris. The dinner came just months after the tech entrepreneur publicly praised President-elect Trump following the July 13 assassination attempt.
Trump adviser Stephen Miller said, “Mark Zuckerberg has been very clear about his desire to be a supporter and partner in this change that we’re seeing across America, around the world with this reform movement that’s being led by Donald Trump. Are.” For guest host Brian Kilmeade ingraham angle With Fox News.
Like many business leaders, Mark Zuckerberg understands that President Trump is an agent of change, an agent of prosperity,” Miller said.
Miller said Zuckerberg “has his own interests” while emphasizing that the Facebook co-founder sees Trump’s second term as a time for “national renewal.”
“Mark, obviously, he has his own interests, and he has his own company, and he has his own agenda,” Miller said. “But he has made clear that he wants to support America’s national renewal under President Trump.”
While Zuckerberg has not issued any endorsements during the 2024 presidential election, he did speak kindly about the president-elect following the assassination attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13.
“Seeing Donald Trump get up after being shot in the face and waving his fist in the air with an American flag is one of the worst things I’ve ever seen in my life,” Zuckerberg told Bloomberg at the time.
He added, “On some level as an American, it’s hard not to be emotional about that feeling and that fight, and I think that’s why a lot of people like the guy.”
Trump had previously indicated that he and Mark Zuckerberg had a friendly relationship since the assassination attempt.
“So, Mark Zuckerberg called me. First of all he called me twice. He called me after the show and said it was really amazing,” he told Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo in August. “And he actually announced that he was not going to support a Democrat because he couldn’t because he respected me for what I did that day. I think what I did…for me, it was a normal reaction.”
Trump even said that Zuckerberg apologized to him without telling him, possibly referring to Facebook’s ban of his account after the January 6 Capitol Hill riot.
“He really apologized. They said they made a mistake … and they’re correcting the mistake,” Trump said.
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