UFC CEO Dana White skipped the UFC Vegas 116 event at Meta Apex in Las Vegas on Saturday to attend the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington D.C. White was sitting front row, right in front of the head table where President Trump was seated when an alleged shooter tried to enter the building. The president was rushed off stage during the chaotic situation.
Following the event, White gave his account of what took place to USA TODAY.
“(Suddenly), it just started getting noisy,” White said. “Tables getting flipped over, guys running in with guns and they were screaming ‘Get down.’ I didn’t get down. It was f**king awesome. I literally took every minute of it in, and it was a pretty crazy, unique experience. We were sitting right in front of the table, right in front of where the president was. Nobody got tackled, but guys came in looking for shooters and they came toward out table. I thought the shooter was over by us or something.”
The Vice President and other cabinet members were also in attendance and were whisked away to safety by The Secret Service and other authorities. A suspect was reportedly taken into custody.
Mayor Muriel Bowser said at a late-night news conference that the suspect rushed the Secret Service checkpoint at 8:36 p.m. E.T. at the Washington Hilton, the site of the event.
