{"id":333471,"date":"2019-11-28T06:14:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T14:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=333471"},"modified":"2019-11-28T06:14:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T14:14:14","slug":"jorge-masvidal-says-donald-trump-has-invited-him-to-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/jorge-masvidal-says-donald-trump-has-invited-him-to-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Jorge Masvidal says Donald Trump has invited him to White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UFC welterweight contender Jorge Masvidal says US President Donald Trump has invited him to the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/donald-trump-shares-photoshopped-picture-of-himself-as-a-boxer\/\">a known fight fan<\/a>, was in attendance for Masvidal&#8217;s stoppage victory over Nate Diaz, which topped the UFC 244 card in New York City earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jorge Masvidal on possible McGregor matchup and his invite to the White House\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jHSDnEND5kc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we don\u2019t know the dates yet, we don\u2019t know when it is, but I did get that and that\u2019s an honour, no matter what your political views are, that\u2019s the president of this country,\u201d Masvidal told Kevin Iole of <em>Yahoo! Sports\u00a0<\/em>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/sport\/martial-arts\/mixed-martial-arts\/article\/3039784\/ufc-jorge-masvidal-says-donald-trump-has\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">South China Morning Post<\/a>), discussing his planned visit with the President.<\/p>\n<p>If Masvidal does in fact visit Trump at the White House, he will not be the first UFC fighter to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Colby Covington visited the President with UFC boss Dana White. Covington, an ardent Trump supporter, has spoken extensively about his important this visit was to him.<\/p>\n<p>When Covington visited the President, he and Masvidal were good friends and training partners. Since then, however, they&#8217;ve devolved into arch enemies, so Masvidal is happy to rub his own White House invite in his former ally&#8217;s face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe begged to go to the White House,\u201d Masvidal said. \u201cI got an invite. He begged [UFC president] Dana White, he begged [ATT owner] Dan Lambert.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDan Lambert called his Skull and Bones [Society] brothers and made it happen. Mr Trump invited me because he saw what a bad motherf**ker I am. So there\u2019s a huge different between [Covington and I].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Colby Covington will take on Kamaru Usman for the UFC welterweight title at UFC 245 in Las Vegas in December. Jorge Masvidal, meanwhile, has irrefutably earned a title shot himself.<\/p>\n<p>Given the welterweight contendership picture, it&#8217;s conceivable that Masvidal and Covington could be booked to fight each other in the near future, and if they do, their respective relationships with Trump will almost certainly factor into their pre-fight trash talk.<\/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 11\/28\/2019.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UFC welterweight contender Jorge Masvidal says US President Donald Trump has invited him to the White House. Trump, a known fight fan, was in attendance for Masvidal&#8217;s stoppage victory over Nate Diaz, which topped the UFC 244 card in New York City earlier this month. \u201cSo we don\u2019t know the dates yet, we don\u2019t know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":325813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[14745,10515,39610],"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>Jorge Masvidal says Donald Trump has invited him to White House | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Red-hot UFC welterweight contender Jorge Masvidal says United States President Donald Trump has invited him to the White House.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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