Eric Trump is denying accusations that he sought information in asking UFC commentator Daniel Cormier whether any fights on the White House South Lawn on Sunday are rigged.
Cormier reportedly posted screenshots of direct messages between him and Trump, which were quickly deleted, before the Freedom 250 event kicked off in the evening.
“The UFC is a sport that I am deeply passionate about,” Cormier appeared to write on X, adding: “I will not tolerate this type of insider behavior.”
The purported post — which a handful of users and reporters said they came across — seemingly shows Trump asking if the former UFC star planned on placing any bets and whether any of the fighters were injured.
“I’ll just cut to the chase,” Trump allegedly goes on to ask. “Are any of the fights tomorrow rigged?”
Cormier replied, according to the screen grabs: “No none of our fights rigged and honestly I am appalled that you would even ask me something like that.”
The president’s son has since repeatedly hit back in a series of social media posts, denying he ever sent the messages.
“This is completely fake! I have never reached out to Daniel,” Trump wrote on X Sunday. “In fact, this is scary.”
He added in a separate post that the texts look to be generated by artificial intelligence.
Cormier separately went on to ask: “Are people really this dumb?”
— Daniel Cormier (@dc_mma) June 14, 2026
When confronted by video journalist Nicholas A. Ballasy, Cormier also swatted down the accusations.
“I can’t believe you guys believed that,” Cormier said in a video posted Monday. “I got hacked or something. Who believes something like that. That’s crazy.”
Some social media users were left confused about the reported exchange between the two, which quickly took off online and were capitalized on by President Donald Trump’s critics.
Dana White, the UFC president and CEO, described the fights in the nation’s capital as successful but noted that they would never happen again.
“I can’t afford it,” White said early Monday. “I’ll never do the Sphere again, and we’ll never do this again.”
https://x.com/RodDelCampo/status/2066329777821073499
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