{"id":631523,"date":"2026-04-26T06:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T06:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/631523\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T06:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T06:40:08","slug":"dana-white-reacts-to-white-house-dinner-shooting-scare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/631523\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White reacts to White House dinner shooting scare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) boss had quite the night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Speaking to USA Today, White described the moment armed agents stormed the venue, prompting guests to dive for cover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIt just started getting noisy,\u201d White said. \u201cTables getting flipped over, guys running in with guns and they were screaming \u2018Get down.\u2019 I didn\u2019t get down. It was f\u2014king awesome. I literally took every minute of it in, and it was a pretty crazy, unique experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">White added that his table was positioned near the front of the room \u2014 close to where Donald Trump was seated \u2014 which only heightened the intensity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cWe were sitting right in front of the table, right in front of where the president was,\u201d he continued. \u201cNobody got tackled, but guys came in looking for shooters, and they came toward our table. I thought the shooter was over by us or something.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For someone who\u2019s spent decades cageside watching violence unfold, White seemed more fascinated than frightened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">According to President Trump, a Secret Service agent was shot at close range but saved by a bulletproof vest. The suspect \u2014 identified as 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen of Torrance, Calif. \u2014 has since been taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For the latest UFC-related news click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmamania.com\/ufc-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) boss had quite the night. Speaking to USA Today, White described the moment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,40762,785,85,1396,14855],"class_list":["post-631523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-news","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}