Donald Trump said during a White House coronavirus briefing on Thursday that he spoke to Yankees President Randy Levine about throwing out the first pitch on Aug. 15th when the Yankees take on the Red Sox — and now the president has unleashed a tweet to say he won’t take part in the event. We’re pretty sure that we know why, and that Trump is lying. Trump doesn’t want to see athletes kneeling.
“It’s great that baseball is back, and other sports are back. I hope everyone’s standing; I hope they’re not going to be kneeling when the flag is raised. I don’t like to see that,” Trump said on The Sean Hannity Show Thursday night.
Also, Trump would be throwing the first pitch with the stands completely empty with no audience. At any rate, after playing golf this weekend, Trump said he was working too hard to throw the first pitch.
Because of my strong focus on the China Virus, including scheduled meetings on Vaccines, our economy and much else, I won’t be able to be in New York to throw out the opening pitch for the @Yankees on August 15th. We will make it later in the season!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 26, 2020
Twitter users don’t believe him.
He just doesn’t want a photo where everyone around him is kneeling, but not to him.
— Fearless Ambassador (@danalog02) July 26, 2020
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LMAO, “strong focus???”
You were golfing with Brett Favre while the country was approaching 150,000 COVID-19 deaths.
ADMIT IT — you’re too chickenshit to throw out a pitch at an EMPTY stadium!!!!
What a sad, pathetic clown. pic.twitter.com/yjAkqDyIS9
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) July 26, 2020
This is what he’s most afraid of pic.twitter.com/pcSsGsqhpF
— LaComadre (@ChooseWiselyEse) July 26, 2020
Even with no crowd he’s too much of a coward lmao
— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) July 26, 2020
This is what Trump is afraid of:
Every player and coach on the Yankees & Nationals took a knee before the national anthem tonight in D.C.
(via @MarkZuckerman)pic.twitter.com/PrPKv4Gs1Z
— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) July 23, 2020
For all we know, Trump wasn’t invited to throw the first pitch to begin with, and now he’s saying that he has to cancel because he’s working on fighting a disease that he again just mislabeled.
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