The shareholder: Should the evaders be given to invite the White House?
In 2019, Mookie Betts, who was then a player in the Boston Red Sox team, rejected President Trump’s invitation to visit the White House, along with eight of his teammates and director Red Sox, Alex Cora. Red Sox was the World Series Championship, and the invitation was a standard photo -op protocol.
Bates, A player in the American league is the most valuable That year, he did not say why Trump’s invitation was refused, but all Red Sox who stayed away were black or Latinians, and many players born abroad indicated that Trump migrated formed their decisions.
Betts may soon decide whether to visit Trump in the White House, if an invitation to his current team, the world champion in the world 2024. (Betts and the championship team appeared in 2021, when President Biden was the White House host.)
All presidents like to take pictures with athletes. In 1910, President Taft began to imitate the first stadium on the opening day. President Reagan began the rituals of presidents who host the winners of the big game in the White House. During Trump’s first presidency, the controversial tradition was particularly turned.
Trump, of course, has Friends among sports charactersIncluding Mike Tyson, Tom Brady, Hershel Walker, Court Sheling, Brett Favre, Tiger Woods, New England owner Patrioz Robert Kraft, and Linda McMahon, co -founder of billionaire global wrestling and education minister Trump.
But other athletes have clarified their objections to the president’s leadership.
In the spring of 2016, during the Trump’s first campaign, Dodgers, the first al -Qaeda man Adrian Gonzalez, a Mexican American, rejected staying with the team at the Mamluk Hotel of Trump in Chicago. When asked if his decision is related to Trump’s attacks on immigrants, Gonzalez said, “You can extract your own conclusions. They may be right.”
In that fall, after the media revealed that Trump had boasted that he could “seize the female genital organs, he refused to comment as” the talk of the treasury room. ” Washington’s jug Sean Dolitel was one of many athletes Who denounced Trump. I was tweet, “As a sporting, I was in dressing rooms throughout my adult life, and ah, this is not talking in the cabinet room.”
By that time, Trump was also intertwined with the midfielder in San Francisco 49ers Cologne Cibernyick, who refused to stand during the national anthem to protest the American racism. “Maybe he must find a country that works better for him,” Trump told an interview In August 2016.
After his election, Trump challenged the owners of the US Football Association to release any kneeling player in protest during the “Star-Spangled Banner”. “Get this son from the prostitute from the stadium now. Outside! He shot. He shot!” Trump At a gathering in Alabama in September 2017.
At the end of next week, More than 200 The American Football Association players kneeled in the Trump challenge. The US Football Association Commissioner Roger Godel defended the demonstrators, but by that time, Kapernick was effectively flammable.
I entered basketball with the president as well. After Golden State Warriors won the US Professional League Championship 2017, the White House and the team were working at a meeting time when Steve Curry said that he would not attend and predict the president, with tweets that the team had been opened.
The same thing happened in 2018, When a handful of members only It is starring NFL Super Bowl Philadelphia Eagles, she is committed to attending an event at the White House with Trump. The president canceled that. (Eagles of the 2025 champion I officially accepted the White House invitation this year.)
In 2019, it was a women’s team that clearly avoided rituals. Trump Great football criticized Megan RabinoThe star of the American women’s national team, because the national anthem was not singing, and after the team won the Women’s World Cup, its members rejected Trump’s interview.
Of course, neither fans nor athletes participate in similar political views. Using sport as a political tool, President Trump attended the Super Paul in early February, and the Daytona 500 race later, as he and the delegation took the footnote to the path.
It may be better not to mix sport and politics at all, but the two have been tightly wounded for decades.
The team owners donate great spices for elected officials, and sometimes in the hope of obtaining services, including government subsidies for new stadiums. Over the years, the owners of evaders, Cleibers, Lakers, angels, Sparks, Los Angel Contribute Hundreds of thousands of dollars for campaigns and pressure efforts.
Fans construct ancient warriors in games, and he chanted when hidden launchers flies over Rose Paul, and unlike mostly sporting events all over the world, you expect to sing the national anthem before the start of the game.
So what should we expect to do the World Championship for the World Series in 2025? The logical time for Trump wearing a duo in about a month will be when Los Angeles is heading to Washington to play citizens starting April 7.
Do not bet on that.
Betts remained explicit on social issues. In 2020, in the year he joined in the evaders, Bings took a knee during the national anthem to protest the American racism and killed George Floyd by Minnesota police officer. He said, “I am more than athlete.” In August of that year, the team led in a game to protest against the killing of the police for another black man, this time in the state of Wisconsin. Director Dave Roberts joined the protest.
Two well-known athletes have criticized a royal share in Dodgers-former Lakers Star Magic Johnson and women’s tennis Billy Jean King-Trump and He served as a co -chairman For the athletes of Harris’s effort during the 2024 presidential campaign. The king said that during the first period of Trump, the country was “Back back” In the struggle for equality.
All in all, it is difficult to imagine that the evaders who agree to a festive image with the president now. Los Angeles is not just the eloquence of blue, but democratic blue. President Los Angeles Province lost 33 percentage points. In his hostility with California Governor Gavin News, Trump Disaster money is threatened Without concessions. It seems that you never miss a chance to take criticism in Golden State.
The world champion must stand, not beside the president. If an introduction comes from the White House, they can send a friendly note: Thanks, but no.
Kelly Kandili produced the documentary “their own league” about the American Bibli League for girls. Peter Dreyer, Professor of Policy at Oxidental College and Partnership–The author of the book “Bibliols: Players, People and Social Movements that shook the game and changed America.”