Former UFC featherweight and lightweight champion Conor McGregor kept hinting at a run for president of Ireland on Wednesday, following days of tweets in which he criticized presidential candidates and the Irish government for “failed policies in protecting and securing” the country’s citizens—joining a wave of recent backlash from Ireland’s right wing.
In a series of tweets, McGregor playfully indicated he might make a run for president in Ireland.
The mixed martial artist also blasted Ireland’s immigration policies, which are under fire from Ireland’s right wing following a stabbing that left three children and two adults injured and sparked what the government called “far-right” riots last week.
The tweets from McGregor come after a string of other posts in which the mixed martial arts star compared himself to other presidential candidates, saying former Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams and former prime ministers Bertie Ahern and Enda Kenny had “unbreakable ties to their individual parties’ politics.”
McGregor, 35, has boasted about his youth and said on X that he has “no affiliation/bias/favoritism toward any party.”
McGregor has specifically focused his would-be policies around immigration so far, saying there’s “a real lapse in national security” in Ireland and that the country needs to deport illegal migrants and form a “task force founded to assess all entrants into Ireland”—one he would call “Ireland Protect.”
X owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk supported McGregor’s potential presidential bid, saying “I think you could take them all single-handed.”