{"id":7148,"date":"2025-03-11T11:20:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T11:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/dana-white-cozies-up-with-andrew-tate-drawing-ire-from-some-in-maga-world\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T11:20:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T11:20:28","slug":"dana-white-cozies-up-with-andrew-tate-drawing-ire-from-some-in-maga-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/dana-white-cozies-up-with-andrew-tate-drawing-ire-from-some-in-maga-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White cozies up with Andrew Tate, drawing ire from some in MAGA world"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Some MAGA world allies are speaking out in disgust over UFC President Dana White’s chummy Friday meetup with social media personality and self-described misogynist<\/a> Andrew Tate, who has been charged with human trafficking in Romania.<\/p>\n

The two avowed Donald Trump supporters shook hands and embraced<\/a> at a Las Vegas tournament for a league known as “Power Slap,” a slap fighting competition White debuted in 2023, days after footage emerged of him slapping his wife after she slapped him<\/a> during a physical altercation in Mexico. Tate’s brother Tristan, who is also charged in the Romanian sex trafficking case, received a warm welcome by White as well on Friday. (The Tate brothers have denied wrongdoing.)<\/p>\n

“Welcome to the States, boys,” White can be heard telling the brothers in a video clip<\/a> of the exchange.<\/p>\n

The friendly exchange follows the brothers’ arrival to the United States last month<\/a> after Romanian prosecutors lifted a travel ban against the sex trafficking defendants, who have both U.S. and British citizenship. Meanwhile, Florida’s attorney general has opened a “preliminary inquiry”<\/a> into the brothers as he considers bringing potential charges against them.<\/p>\n

Andrew Tate is a popular figure in the internet sector known as the “Manosphere,”<\/a> a constellation of deeply misogynistic right-wing influencers. He has called Trump “the last hope” for Western civilization<\/a>. Last year, after Trump’s election victory, he suggested he hit the gas pedal in his car<\/a> when he saw a woman at a crosswalk because “you no longer have rights.”<\/p>\n

Some Trump supporters were appalled by White, a close Trump ally, literally embracing Tate on Friday. Mediaite reported<\/a> that several popular right-wing influencers, including Dana Loesch<\/a> and Ian Miles Chong<\/a>voiced their displeasure over it. <\/p>\n

It seems foolish for anyone to think being friendly with Andrew Tate is beyond the pale for White. Fundamentally, this was a meeting between a man who we’ve seen smack his wife (White has since apologized for the incident<\/a>) and a man who has publicly fantasized about harming women. Plus, Tate is a former professional kickboxer. And they’re both fervent Trump supporters. I suspect they have a lot<\/em> to talk about.<\/p>\n

Part of me feels that the Trump supporters up in arms over this meeting are most perturbed about having a mirror shown to themselves. Because while Tate’s views are vile, I’d argue they are no less vile than Trump, the self-described “protector” of women<\/a> who was found liable for sexual abuse<\/a> by a jury of his peers, and who is leading a misogynistic movement<\/a> of men.<\/p>\n

So, perhaps, they want to extract Tate from their movement. It will do no good, when we can all see the ties that bind: which, in this case, is deep antipathy toward women and their treatment as equals. <\/p>\n


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Ja’han Jones<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Ja’han Jones is an BLN opinion blogger. He previously wrote The ReidOut Blog. He is a futurist and multimedia producer focused on culture and politics. His previous projects include “Black Hair Defined” and the “Black Obituary Project.”<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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