{"id":321438,"date":"2019-08-05T06:05:07","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T13:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=321438"},"modified":"2019-08-05T06:05:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T13:05:07","slug":"colby-covington-discusses-phone-call-with-donald-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/colby-covington-discusses-phone-call-with-donald-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Colby Covington discusses phone call with Donald Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after his victory over Robbie Lawler at UFC Newark, former interim welterweight champ Colby Covington received a phone call from President Donald Trump. The pair have met previously, thanks to an introduction from UFC President Dana White, and have kept in touch ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Covington detailed this call post-fight.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/UFCEurope\/status\/1157914062778445825<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump, Mr. President, he tweeted out support for me before the fight, and then after the fight, he gave me a call,\u201d Covington said after his victory in Newark, detailing his call with Trump (via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mmajunkie.usatoday.com\/2019\/08\/colby-covington-says-donald-trump-wants-him-back-at-white-house-ufc-on-espn-5-newark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"MMAJunkie.com (opens in a new tab)\">MMAJunkie.com<\/a>).. \u201cHe just said he appreciates everything I\u2019ve done. He wants me to come back to the White House and shake his hand again and hang out with him in the Oval Office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Colby Covington also gave his take on the upcoming presidential election, predicting a second term for Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe just appreciates how much I do and the hard-working American,\u201d he said. \u201cI haven\u2019t been given anything. I\u2019ve had to work and earn everything I have. This (fight) was a landslide, just like it\u2019s going to be a landslide in 2020.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Colby Covington didn&#8217;t just receive a call from Donald Trump. The President&#8217;s family \u2014 namely his sons and wife \u2014 actually attended his fight in Newark.<\/p>\n<p>With his victory over Lawler, Covington re-established himself as the next man in line for a welterweight title shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 8\/5\/2019. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after his victory over Robbie Lawler at UFC Newark, former interim welterweight champ Colby Covington received a phone call from President Donald Trump. The pair have met previously, thanks to an introduction from UFC President Dana White, and have kept in touch ever since. Covington detailed this call post-fight. https:\/\/twitter.com\/UFCEurope\/status\/1157914062778445825 \u201cDonald Trump, Mr. President, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":295298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[22188,14745,39610],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Colby Covington discusses phone call with Donald Trump | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Colby Covington details his call with Donald Trump after his victory over Robbie Lawler at UFC Newark\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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