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 Andrew Tate, who has been charged with human trafficking in Romania.
The two avowed Donald Trump supporters shook hands and embraced 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 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.)
“Welcome to the States, boys,” White can be heard telling the brothers in a video clip of the exchange.
The friendly exchange follows the brothers’ arrival to the United States last month 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” into the brothers as he considers bringing potential charges against them.
Andrew Tate is a popular figure in the internet sector known as the “manosphere,” a constellation of deeply misogynistic right-wing influencers. He has called Trump “the last hope” for Western civilization. Last year, after Trump’s election victory, he suggested he hit the gas pedal in his car when he saw a woman at a crosswalk because “you no longer have rights.”








