Former interim UFC welterweight champion Colby Covington expected to be part of the UFC White House fight card. After all, he's been one of President Donald Trump's biggest supporters on the UFC roster.

When the fight card was officially announced, Covington's name did not appear. Instead, he was offered a fight against the eventual UFC Fight Night 273 main event winner.

"I really wanted the fight. I was campaigning with the UFC. I thought they were holding me out for the fight specifically, but they couldn't find anybody to fight me at that event. I asked for multiple names. I left it in their court many times. I said, 'Hunter [Campbell], I'll fight any man alive. I'd prefer to fight at 170 on a full camp, but if it's a short-notice fight, I'll fight at middleweight,'" Covington told MMAJunkie.

"If it's going to be a full camp like this then I need to fight at my natural weight, but they didn't have anybody involved. The only person they've offered me is the winner between [Mike] Malott versus [Gilbert] Burns. So, I accepted. I said, 'Okay, I'll wait until the end of the year to fight them if that's what you guys want."

Being left off the UFC White House event was a bitter pill to swallow for "Chaos," who considers himself a 'company man.'

"I wouldn't say bothered, but I'd would just say more like bummed, just a little bummed," said Covington. "I thought I was a shoo-in for that spot. I'm the one that brought Trump into UFC back in 2018 when no one was supporting him. There wasn't an athlete alive walking around Times Square supporting him like I was, wearing a MAGA hat through Times Square with my belt and going to media tours at Sports Illustrated, ESPN and everybody calling me the white elephant in the room because I was supporting Trump and wearing a MAGA hat," said Covington.

"I thought that I was going to be able to get that call to represent the U.S. and be on the White House card. But unfortunately it wasn't in their cards. Hunter didn't give me the opportunity. The UFC didn't give me the opportunity. I wasn't going to go to Trump," Covington continued.

"Everybody was like, 'Oh, you should have went to Trump and you should have asked for a favor.' Man, he's got way more important things to worry about like keeping world peace right now. We don't want to see a world war, so I'm not going to bother him ... I think the ship sailed for me going to the White House."

While Covington wanted nothing more than to fight at the historic event, he wasn't impressed with the bouts the fight promotion chose.

"It's piss-poor at best," he said. "I think the fans have said it. I think the fans have spoken. The fans said they hate it. It's a terrible card. They promised six or seven title fights. They have one title fight and an interim title fight that they just put together last minute. The thing was just so disorganized. They put it together last minute. There wasn't any high-ranking American fighters.

"I think they have two (American) guys on there. Michael Chandler, who is Iike 40 years-old. And then Sean O'Malley, who is a great fighter. Love Sean, but besides that, who's the guys representing America on the 250th birthday of America? It doesn't seem like there's that guy there. It just seems like they just don't care anymore. They made all that money with Paramount and they're just happy. It is what's it is. The fans have spoken. It's unfortunate."