The new FBI director Kash Patel would have an innovative way to improve the physical form of FBI agents.
Patel suggested to the chiefs of the 55 FBI field offices in a teleconference on Wednesday that he wants the FBI and the UFC to form a relationship that would lead to programs to improve the physical form of agents, ABC News reported.
A source from the UFC told PK Press Club Digital that, although the president of the UFC, Dana White and Patel, knew each other, the UFC was not informed any information concerning the two parties that train between them. The FBI refused to comment.
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Kash Patel and Dana White (Imagn)
White has long supported President Donald Trump, who hired a paw earlier this month. The president has long attended UFC events, including the UFC 309 at the Madison Square Garden only a few days after winning the 2024 elections.
Trump is often spotted sitting with white when he attended, and Trump and Elon Musk joined White in the garden.
Trump has not attended an UFC event since it became president, but he attended the Super Bowl and Daytona 500 earlier this month.
Trump reacts to athletes imitating his dance movements
Dana White, president elected Donald Trump, Kid Rock and Elon Musk pose for a photo during the UFC 309 at Madison Square Garden on November 16, 2024, in New York. (Chris Unger / Zuffa LLC)
The day before Trump’s inauguration in January, White attended a victory rally in Washington, DC, and congratulated Trump.
“This guy is a winner. And I say it all the time. He is the most difficult and most resilient person I have ever met, and nothing would prevent him from fighting so hard for the country he loves,” said White. “He embodies what an American is. We are the most difficult and most resistant people on earth, and nothing can stop us when we are one.”
White and Trump’s relationship dates back to the first days of the UFC, when Trump authorized sport, which at the time had the bad reputation of being violent, to organize events in his casino in Atlantic City.
The CEO of the UFC, Dana White, on the left, speaks to President elected Donald Trump on the edge of the UFC 309 at the Madison Square Garden on November 16, 2024. (Brad Penner / Imagn images)
“Each time, when he was hammered at worst, we entered this arena, and the place bursts and goes crazy,” White told New Yorker in November. “It shows to others:” Oh, wait. Not everyone hates Donald Trump as the media tell us. “”
