Head Trauma Concerns
While President Trump has generally been supportive of MMA, he hasn’t always been in the sport’s corner.
In 2014, Trump generated negative publicity for the sport after stating that he wouldn’t want his son to take up either American Football or Mixed Martial Arts due to concerns about the possibility of getting brain damage.
While UFC President Dana white steered clear of putting Trump on blast because of their past relationship, he did make it clear he didn’t endorse what he was saying.
“It’s weird to hear that he said that,” White said of Trump, who once owned a pro-football team and had equity in MMA organization Affliction. “I’ll say this, I disagree with him. There’s no doubt that football is more dangerous with the injuries that happen in football. Listen, we talk about, football and concussions and the dangers and this and that. Everything is dangerous man. My car ride over here is dangerous. What’s not dangerous?”
“…Okay, so we’re going to take football away? We’re going to take fighting away, too? Or any type of contact sport? It’s ridiculous; it makes no sense. It’s the pussification of America.”
