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“This is karma, ladies and gentlemen.”


“This is karma, ladies and gentlemen.”

Former President Donald Trump's best friend, Dana White, was invited to cheer on a cadre of MAGA-affiliated streamers and podcasters on Tuesday night in a bizarre follow-up to the Republican candidate's victory remarks.

“I want to thank the Nelk Boys, Adin Ross, Theo Von, Bussin' With the Boys and, last but not least, the mighty and mighty Joe Rogan,” said White, the UFC CEO, in perhaps the strangest form of gratitude since George Washington in 2019 was elected in 1789.

During the campaign, Trump undertook a whirlwind press tour of right-wing podcasts and livestreams, but declined a sit-in with the flagship newsmagazine CBS 60 minutes.

Ross, who hosted Trump on a Kick livestream in August, was forbidden No less than eight times – permanently from February 2023 – by the streaming site Twitch for spreading homophobic and hateful insults and anti-Semitic messages.

He is too hosted White nationalist Nick Fuentes, who Trump himself dined with along with MAGA rapper and anti-Semite Kanye West.

Now he's – along with the seltzer-selling Nelk Boys and the Trump-friendly Barstool Sports-Football podcast “Bussin' With the Boys” – part of MAGA's own stand-ins for Barbara Walters and Terry Gross.

“We are so exhausted as a nation,” progressive streamer Hasan Piker tweeted after seeing White’s nod to Ross.

Rogan, the granddaddy of freewheeling libertarian conspiracies, was the most prominent figure in the online fraternity to support Trump, in the eleventh hour of the campaign and after he failed to seal an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.

Trump's appearance on “The Joe Rogan Experience” was the culmination of his campaign's strategy to introduce its candidate to Generation Z and Millennials who consume less traditional media.

MAGA billionaire Elon Musk, Rogan said, was the one who convinced him to support the Republican candidate after appearing on the podcast Monday to advocate for his candidate.

White, who has been friends with Trump for a quarter century and introduced Trump at this year's Republican National Convention, huddled with the president and Musk as the election results were announced.

“This is karma, ladies and gentlemen,” White told an enthusiastic crowd of die-hard Trump supporters in West Palm Beach before thanking Trump’s supporters.

“It’s a piece of work,” Trump joked of White after he finished his speech. “No, he’s really a great guy.”

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