Trump loves the spotlight that comes with sports. Especially likes when it’s on it

Washington (AP) – President Donald Trump I could not stand in the end of world light 2020. year, because Washington’s nationals opened his seaside with a pandemic at home against New York Iankees Dr Anthony Fauci shesles the first height.

“I think I’m doing this for 15. August at Yankee Stadium,” said the president a little before Fauci took the embankment.

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He never arrived at Bronx that year, later he said he was supposed to stay in the White House to manage the pandemic. But eight months in his second term, Donald Trump It rarely shakes from ensuring that he remains at the head of American sports and cultural life. It often turns into athletic events with high watts to ensure that its presence feels far beyond the traditional realm of the Presidency.

Only in September, Trump has at least three sports events in New York in her calendar.

He was looking at Carlos Alcaraz Vin The United States opened on Sunday and return to the city on Thursday when Yankees hosted your nuts at 24. Anniversary 11. September of terrorist attacks. The President also plans to attend the opening of Runde Rider Cup in Bethpage Black on Long Island this month and encouraged himself US Captain Keegan Bradley to play.

“He is much more present, verbally and long-lasting when it comes to sports than any president,” David Andrews said, Professor, University of Maryland and author “said again” Sport. “” Being in a large sports event is brought to it, and allows people to hamper your social media. “

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Sport has long helped define who Trump is

Sport was central for the Trump Public Persons for decades before he entered politics. Once the USFL was owned New jersey Generali and to bid to be unsuccessfully to buy New York Mets. Until the first terrain is expected to throw the first terrain on Thursday, it was done earlier, including the game 2000. in Vrigley Field and six years later in Fenway Park.

The Iankees game will be Trump’s eighth major sporting event in as few months since the return to the White House in January. Attended Super Bowl In New Orleans Daytona 500, UFC is fighting Miami and Newark, New JerseyThe NCAA wrestling championship in PhiladelphiaFIFA CLUB World Cup final In East Rutherford, New Jersey and United States open men’s finals.

All this don’t count all the weekends, who spent golf in his courses in Florida, New Jersey and Virginia, as well as momentum to open a new trump in Scotland.

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Sometimes they can prove that most presidents will try to avoid. Trump was crossed on the US Open and the finals of the World Cup. And often departs from outside the field where he can influence late Pete Rose to be installed in the baseball hall of the glory and referring to Cliveland Cleveland commanders and Washington commanders to return to their Old team nicknames.

The President also held many events of white house events that promote US World Cup Hosting next year – although there was no more football fan – and devotes close attention to the preparations for the Los Angeles Olympics.

Sometimes sports and political diplomacy were collided. Trying to alleviate a Sloven Oval Office A meeting with the truth in May, South African President Ciril Ramafos brought two golf stars from his country, Ernie Els and Retaif.

“They’re champions,” then Trump said. “I respect champions.”

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Although it was a long fan of Yankees and near a long-term team owner, Trump lately kept his preferences and was more willing to enroll in the spectacle of large events, and not cheering himself as a fan.

He asked whether Trump was still a fan of Yankee or is a more important spectacle of great sports events, spokeswoman for the White House Taylor Rogers said only that Trump will “return to his home country.” On a similar subject, however, the press release of the white house Karolin Leavitt said Trump “is in the heart of New Yorka. He loves the city very much. “It’s despite the fact of Trump changed its primary residence In Florida in 2019 years.

Baseball and Presidents

National pre-case reliabilities for fun, transitions over trump.

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Abraham Lincoln liked to watch the game on a diamond only south of the white house. Richard Nikon compiled exhaustive, all-star shot teams that stretch several leagues and era that made national titles. Ronald Reagan, who used to be a baseball announcer, watched the 1988 match. From Chicago Cubs.

14. April 1910. years, William Howard Taft hit the ball from the stand to start the customs of the president by ejecting the first terrain when baseball teams open their seasons in Washington. George V. Bush threw the first terrain while Yankees played Arizona Diamondbacks in the world series in 2001. years, the moment that came to symbolize national resistance after 11. September attacks weeks.

Barack Obama Has the last president dropped the first terrain, in 2010. years. Joe Biden is not, nor Trump is not in his first time.

The exceptions that are now known in Trump’s political life are also in its sports obsession.

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“I should have been for baseball player,” he wrote once. Trump in the account in Brian Kilmeade’s 2005 year “Games are counted” “I was just thinking about the main league until I was trying to do unto Willie McCovei. I did not believe that I would completely enter the whole life.”

In addition to being able to happen the way Trump remembers. The Career McCovei’s Career of Glory knew the test for New York giants in Florida, but that was 1955. years – when Trump was not 10.

Curt Smith, a former speaker for President George HV Bush and the author of Presidents and Working, “wrote at Trump Emergency School Career at the Military Academy in New York, and noticed:” Many characteristics that of course recognized today was born today. “

Smith said that teammates remember Trump as a strong enough blow of right-handed teams set their defense on the left side of diamond diamond. Instead of getting away on the gap on the right, Trump would hit the counters on the left because he “wanted them to overcome them.”

“He was a real player,” Smith said. “He loved to win.”