Conor McGregor visits White House, tells Donald Trump ‘his work ethic is inspiring’

Conor McGregor made a particular go to to the White Home to talk to President Donald Trump.

The previous two-division UFC champion was a visitor at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on Monday, and never solely did he have a face-to-face assembly with Trump, he additionally had an opportunity to handle the media and share his opinion on ongoing issuers in his native Eire.

Try images and clips of McGregor’s go to under.

In footage posted by Particular Assistant to the President and Communications Advisor Margo Martin, McGregor was heard telling Trump, “Your work ethic is inspiring.”

McGregor, who was born in Dublin, has been a vocal critic of the Irish authorities’s immigration insurance policies, incessantly writing political feedback on his Twitter account and suggesting he might run for workplace sooner or later. Throughout an impromptu scrum with reporters, McGregor shared his ideas on Eire’s relationship with america.

“Eire and America, we’re siblings,” McGregor mentioned. “We think about America our large sibling, so it’s necessary for Eire to be a peaceable, affluent nation, for the 40 million Irish-People to have a spot to go to. To return again to their house. So we want for our relationship with america to proceed.

“We want to be taken care of by the massive bro. America ought to take care of its little bro and that’s how we really feel.”

White Home Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was available to welcome McGregor, saying, “We couldn’t consider a greater visitor to have with us on St. Patrick’s Day.” Trump not too long ago praised McGregor in a latest assembly with Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Micheál Martin, telling him, “I do occur to love your fighter, he’s acquired the most effective tattoos I’ve ever seen.”

Martin has responded to McGregor’s White Home feedback on social media.

St. Patrick’s Day all over the world is a day rooted in neighborhood, humanity, friendship and fellowship.

Conor McGregor’s remarks are flawed, and don’t replicate the spirit of St. Patrick’s Day, or the views of the folks of Eire.

McGregor, some of the in style fighters in fight sports activities historical past, isn’t any stranger to creating headlines exterior of the cage. This previous November, McGregor was discovered chargeable for sexual assault in a civil swimsuit associated to a December 2018 incident in Dublin, and ordered to pay approx. $258,440 in damages to sufferer Nikita Hand (McGregor and his workforce are in search of to enchantment the decision). He’s additionally presently coping with one other civil lawsuit for sexual assault regarding an alleged incident at a Miami Warmth recreation in June 2023.