{"id":359841,"date":"2020-08-28T05:36:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T12:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=359841"},"modified":"2020-08-28T05:36:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T12:36:53","slug":"dana-whites-rnc-speech-gets-scrutinized-by-fact-checkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/dana-whites-rnc-speech-gets-scrutinized-by-fact-checkers\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White&#8217;s RNC speech gets scrutinized by fact-checkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday night, UFC President Dana White <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/video-dana-white-speaks-at-republican-national-convention-endorses-donald-trump-for-re-election\/\">endorsed<\/a> Donald Trump at The Republican National Convention. His speech did not go over well with fact-checkers.<\/p>\n<p>During his appearance at the RNC, White spoke at length about the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, and praised Trump&#8217;s handling of the issue, which has now claimed upward of 181,000 lives in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UFC President Dana White speaks at the RNC | Full\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rAyKbERXgXM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p id=\"ZevJvT\">\u201cNow, let\u2019s talk about COVID and let\u2019s be very honest about it,\u201d White said (h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mmafighting.com\/2020\/8\/27\/21405059\/dana-white-praises-president-donald-trump-during-rnc-appearance-fact-checkers-pounce-on-speech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MMA Junkie<\/a>). \u201cNo one person and no one place could have anticipated the challenges that COVID would bring. But President Trump has faced all these obstacles head on.<\/p>\n<p id=\"CKmeny\">\u201cHe immediately put protective measures in place and he reached out to the best and the brightest leaders in American businesses of all industries to discuss what he and his administration could do to get the economy back up and running safely,&#8221; White added.<\/p>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, a number of political commentators and fact-checkers were quick to question the veracity of White&#8217;s claims.<\/p>\n<p>See what they had to say below:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">At the Republican National Convention, Dana White just said that no one could have anticipated the Covid pandemic. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/81maKf2UMD\">https:\/\/t.co\/81maKf2UMD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NickKristof\/status\/1299151650653982721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Well, here we are.<\/p>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MSNBC<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maddow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@maddow<\/a> invites a pulmonologist with degrees from Princeton University, Columbia University, the University of Cambridge, and Harvard University to fact-check Ultimate Fighting Championship President Dana White.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Gura (@davidgura) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/davidgura\/status\/1299153519937757187?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dana White&#8217;s lies about Trump&#8217;s coronavirus response are outrageous. Trump claimed at least 31 times that the virus would just &#8216;go away.&#8217; More than 180,000 people have died in the U.S. Dana White&#8217;s RNC speech was just filled with lies.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kylegriffin1\/status\/1299153280698851328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Of course, this is laughably and provably false:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President Trump may be the only president in modern times who has done EVERYTHING he said would do during his campaign.&#8221; &#8211; Dana White<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RNCConvention?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#RNCConvention<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 S.E. Cupp (@secupp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/secupp\/status\/1299152140515119104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Dana White is praising Trump for his sports COVID task force. Mark Cuban, who was on the group, told me he was only aware of it meeting once<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Allan Smith (@akarl_smith) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/akarl_smith\/status\/1299151724284907523?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 28, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Dana White has been a friend Trump since 2001, when Trump allowed the UFC to promote events inside the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City at a time when the organization was still struggling to gain mainstream acceptance.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, Trump has made no secret of his interest in MMA. The President recently welcomed former interim UFC welterweight champion Colby Covington to the White House, and even attended the UFC 244 card in New York City late last year. He also added White to<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/us-president-donald-trump-adds-dana-white-and-vince-mcmahon-to-economic-task-force\/\"> the aforementioned economic task force<\/a>\u00a0earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>White, meanwhile, first spoke in Trump\u2019s favor at the 2016 Republican National Convention, when the real estate mogul was first running for President.<\/p>\n<p id=\"93CE8A\">\u201cDonald championed the UFC before it was popular, before it grew into a successful business and I will always be grateful\u2014so grateful\u2014to him for standing with us in those early days,\u201d White said back in 2016.\u00a0\u201cSo tonight, I stand with Donald Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What did you think of the speech Dana White delivered at the Republican National Convention?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday night, UFC President Dana White endorsed Donald Trump at The Republican National Convention. 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