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As the newly-elected US President Trump met different people on the way to his seat, he also shook hands with WWE COO Triple H.
Donald Trump meets Triple H at UFC
The UFC 309 turned out to be a star-studded event with too many big shots marking their presence. The show at the Madison Square Garden was attended by US President-elect Donald Trump who walked out to The Undertaker’s theme song along with Elon Musk, UFC President Dana White, Robert Kennedy Jr., among the other celebrities.
As the newly-elected US President Trump met different people on the way to his seat, he also shook hands with WWE COO Triple H. Trump has a three-decade-long connection with WWE and he has made 11 appearances on WWE TV so far.
UFC aired a video package of Trump’s road to reclaiming the White House, calling it, “The great comeback in American History,” while fans stood and applauded.
Trump is a longtime UFC enthusiast and frequent attendee of major fights. He made promoting hypermasculine tones a signature of his campaign — as he looked to further widen the gap among male voters between himself and his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris.
He featured retired WrestleMania star Hulk Hogan at the Republican convention in August and hosted UFC bouts at his casinos in the early days, when the series struggled to gain traction and well before it became today’s multi-billion success.
Back in 2001, Dana White hosted a 2001 UFC battle at Trump Taj Mahal, a former casino-hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and Trump has frequently attended UFC matches since – including during his 2024 campaign. Trump has turned up at fights recently with famous entourages, including White, musician Kid Rock and former Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson.
In 2018, during Trump’s first term, he and White starred in a UFC video where the then-president was called the “Combatant In Chief.”
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