Which UFC Coffee Table Book Does Trump Show White House Guests?

In Zohran Mamdani’s interview with Adam Friedland for The Adam Friedland Show, the incoming New York City dished some crucial new details on his meeting with now-viral meeting with President Donald Trump on November 21. 

Friedland inquired about what the whole shebang was like between the young, Muslim, Democratic Socialist and the far-right Republican—but also asked the best specific question any journalist Mamdani has spoken to since the infamous Oval Office meet-up.   

“What was the weirdest thing he showed you?” Friedland asked Mamdani.  

“Um what's that weird thing?” Mamdani said, stalling for time.

“He had to have shown you something, one thing weird.” Friedland pressed. 

Mamdani, started with the boring answer: “I mean he showed me the portraits of all the presidents in the cabinet room.”

But then Mamdani gave the people what we really wanted to hear: one of the weird little details that only a man like Trump could deliver. 

“I sit down waiting for the time of the meeting and in front of me are like all these different coffee table books and one of them is UFC at the White House,” Mamdani revealed. 

Instantly Friedland and I, the audience, perked up at this information. It’s no secret that Trump is obsessed with UFC. Just last week Dana White went on Flagrant, co-hosted by Andrew Schulz and Akaash Signh, to discuss the extensive plans the UFC card planned to take place on the White House lawn next summer. 

“Oh yeah, he's bringing it there, right?” Friedland asked. 

“I had no idea but I was—Yeah, the flipping flipping through that,” Mamdani said. 

Friedland became the unexpected king of the follow up question and asked: “So you saw guys fighting each other?”

A quick Google reveals that such books do exist. UFC: A Visual History is the most popular UFC coffee table book, but there’s also The Fight and UFC Encyclopedia. Which one made it to the White House’s Oval Office waiting room?

“No, it was just a visualization,” Mamdani clarified. 

“Oh, of the like what?” 

“Yeah, what the octagon is going to look like,” Mamdani said. The octagon he’s referring to are the renderings of the fighting ring that will be constructed for the big fight next summer. What an insight into the president’s psyche; the man has a custom printed photobook of the UFC fighting ring he wants to build on the White House lawn. It’s like a vision board that visiting politicians, ambassadors, and dignitaries will see while they wait to meet with Trump about matters like wars, trade deals, and domestic policy. 

“Are you going to go?” Friedland asked. 

“No.”

Nether are we. But we might buy the book for a goof.