The key facts

  • Trump posted an AI video about a press conference featuring Dana White, Nurmagomedov and Makhachev
  • According to The Washington Post, he offered White the press secretary position as a joke
  • The press secretary post is vacant: Katie Zachary left on October 9 after five days in the role

AI video and a joking offer

US President Donald Trump posted on his social network Truth Social an AI-generated cartoon depicting how a White House press conference run by UFC president Dana White might go. In the video, after questions from journalists, the UFC head gives commands to fighters, including Islam Makhachev and Khabib Nurmagomedov, who apply grappling moves to members of the media. At the end, when Trump peeks into the room, the journalists are lying unconscious, and White says the press conference was 'heated, but mostly peaceful'. Gazeta.Ru reports this.

Context: the press secretary vacancy

The day before, Trump offered White the position of White House press secretary and asked him to bring assistants, naming Makhachev and Nurmagomedov among them, adding that such people were needed to protect the country 'from the crazy left'. Later, The Washington Post, citing a source in the White House, wrote that the American leader was joking. The vacancy arose after, on October 9, Karoline Leavitt's replacement, Khat... — actually, Katie Zachary left the post of press secretary due to moving to a new job; she had served as White House press secretary for only five days, having replaced Caroline Leavitt, who left the position after the birth of her second child. Earlier in the US, there were also suspicions that Trump had confused people named Dana White.