Popular YouTube creator JiDion asked Donald Trump for a million dollar loan at UFC 287
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- Popular YouTube creator JiDion asked Donald Trump for a $1 million loan at UFC 287 Saturday.
- Jorge Masvidal and UFC boss Dana White also praised the ex-President at the Florida event.
- The appearance arrived one week after Trump pleaded not guilty to charges relating to a 2016 hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels.
Popular YouTube creator JiDion asked Donald Trump for a million-dollar loan at the UFC 287 event inside the Kaseya Center in Miami Saturday.
Trump attended the show to watch, amongst other fights, popular MMA fighter Jorge Masvidal who praised the 76-year-old.
"Greatest president in the history of the world, I love that guy," said Masvidal, pointing at Trump after his loss to Gilbert Burns.
UFC boss Dana White, meanwhile, told reporters at the post-event press conference that Trump calls him "twice a month."
The event was 70 miles north of Trump's Mar-a-Lago Club in Florida, and the 76-year-old was seen smiling with UFC boss Dana White, former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson, and singer Kid Rock.
Trump recently pleaded not guilty to 34 charges relating to a 2016 hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels, yet got one of the biggest props of the night with people ringside almost falling over themselves to shake his hand.
A popular creator asked Trump for a loan
YouTube vlogger JiDion, who has 6.84 million subscribers, requested photographs with him — which Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. took.
JiDion told the former president that his "mom will go crazy," presumably when she sees the pics, before asking Trump for "a small loan of $1 million," which Trump Jr. seemed to find funny.
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It's not the first MMA event Trump has attended as he had a prominent seat with Trump Jr. for the UFC 244 event four years ago in New York, where Masvidal beat Nate Diaz in the main event.
Masvidal notably went on to campaign for Trump during a "Fighters Against Socialism" bus tour in 2020.
He said he was invited to the White House while Trump was president and previously told Insider that Trump was a "bad mother fucker" because he's "done crazy shit a lot of people wish they could do."
Though Masvidal performed well the last time he competed in front of Trump, he dropped a decision to Gilbert Burns — his fourth defeat in succession — and then announced his retirement.
Trump is 'a huge fight fan,' according to White
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White, meanwhile, told reporters backstage that Trump "will talk to me for an hour about fights that have happened."
White previously claimed he had a 20-year relationship with Trump and even spoke at Republican National Conventions. According to Tucker Carlson in 2022, Trump said White is "the only essential person in American sports."
Speaking Saturday, White said Trump "knows everybody" on the UFC roster.
"He knows what they did and who they fought last. He's a huge fight fan — he loves this stuff."