Dana White’s reaction to White House shooting leaves retired UFC star baffled: “There’s not a single f*cking thing awesome about that”

Dana White’s reaction to a recent shooting at the White House correspondents’ dinner left one retired UFC veteran stunned.

A gunman rushed through security and fired off his gun, striking a police officer this past weekend. The officer survived and the gunman was restrained. In the midst of the chaos, White didn’t seem fazed. He even told USA Today that he felt the experience was “[expletive] awesome.”

On the latest edition of MMAFighting‘s “The Fighter vs. The Writer,” ex-UFC knockout artist Matt Brown was baffled by White’s reaction.

“I’m absolutely flabbergasted—it took me completely blindsided—when he came out, when I saw the short little clip of him saying that was awesome,” Brown said. “I think I have a little bit more of a justification in criticizing that being that I’ve been in a mass shooting before.

“I’ve been there when there was a shooting going on, which most people probably haven’t. It is not awesome in any sense of the word. It is not f*cking cool one bit. For him to say that, I did not appreciate that. Not that my opinion matters whether I appreciate it, but there’s people whose lives are at risk there. That really blows my mind that someone would say that shit like that was awesome. A dude got shot. Maybe he survived but got shot. That’s a traumatic experience for him. There’s not a single f*cking thing awesome about that. People don’t need to be going around shooting people and there’s nothing cool about that. I don’t know why anyone would say that was awesome. That’s the weirdest, most oddball thing I’ve ever heard anybody say.”

Brown attended a 2004 Damageplan concert at the Alrosa Villa nightclub in Columbus. Nathan Gale shot and killed Damageplan’s “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott. Jeffrey “Mayhem” Thompson, Erin Halk, and Nathan Bray were also killed. Officer James Niggemeyer shot and killed Gale, who had also taken a hostage.