Dragging Secretary of State Rubio with him to the Miami UFC<\/a> event, Trump<\/a> walked out to Kid Rock\u2019s \u2018American Badass\u2019 ahead of the main card of the night, taking a front seat for the light heavyweight title fight between Ji\u0159\u00ed Proch\u00e1zka and Carlos Ulberg.<\/p>\n While the president’s fascination with fight night event dates all the way back to the days of Andr\u00e9 the Giant, he was given something of a stranger’s welcome on Saturday night, with some amongst the usually supportive crowd of martial arts fans booing Trump as he walked out with UFC boss Dana White.<\/p>\n t<\/p>\n This was just one of a number of awkward moments during the UFC event in Miami’s Kaseya Center, which also saw President Trump pull in Joe Rogan for a quiet word after the podcast host had spent a great deal of airtime slamming his war with Iran.<\/p>\n But the most notable moment was when many people’s cringe-o-meters went off the scale, with Trump making absolutely bizarre comments to Paulo Costa after he won his bout with Russian Azamat Murzakanov by TKO. <\/p>\n The 34-year-old Brazilian fighter jumped up to celebrate his win with the President of the United States, who had taken to his feet after Costa’s victory. He walked over to the 79-year-old and said: \u201cThank you for everything you\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n In response, Trump bizarrely heaped praise on Costa’s apparent good looks, rather than the fact that he had just won his first-ever light heavyweight bout at the major UFC event.<\/p>\n \u201cYou’re a beautiful guy. You could be a model, you look so good,” the President of the United States said. <\/p>\n He added: \u201cYou\u2019re too good looking to be a fighter. You are some fighter. Thank you, man.\u201d<\/p>\n When Costa was later asked about the ringside chat with Trump, he clarified that the comments were ‘so funny’, and added: “I just kind of jokingly talked to him.<\/p>\n \u201cThen I just said some things that were personal, so let\u2019s just keep it a secret for now. It was just between us.\u201d<\/p>\n If the president needs another chance to admire the fine forms of the MMA fighters competing in the UFC he does not have long to wait, or far to go. <\/p>\n Thats because the fight night is heading to Trump’s backyard to celebrate America’s 250th birthday, June 14, with the UFC Freedom 250 event on the White House’s South Lawn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump was caught making a truly bizarre comment to a Brazilian MMA fighter who won his bout…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603474,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,1376,641,638,714,82,640,1063],"class_list":{"0":"post-603473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-mma","13":"tag-politics","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-ufc","16":"tag-viral"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"POTUS](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/aHR0cHM6Ly9ldS1pbWFnZXMuY29udGVudHN0YWNrLmNvbS92My9hc3NldHMvYmx0OTQ5ZWE4ZTE2ZTQ2MzA0OS9ibHRmMDZmMGM2.webp\"\/)
POTUS and Secretary of State Rubio were at the UFC event while Vance tried to negotiate the end of the Iran war (Julia Demaree Nikhinson – Pool\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n