New York – President Donald Trump attended the Yankees game in New York on Thursday, where he received a mixed reaction to commemorate the 24th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, hours after honoring the memory of the victims in the Pentagon.
The authorities installed for the president armored crystals outside a suite of the upper floor on the side of the third base, on the Detroit Tigouts. During the national anthem, Trump was shown on the giant stadium screen and received boos of some in the crowd.
There were applause by others.
Moments before, when he first took a seat, the president briefly greeted the crowd and lifted a thumb, but not all fans realized because there was no announcement of his arrival.
In the stadium the unofficial anthem of Trump’s campaign was briefly touched, “God Bless The USA”, but with little reaction. There were songs of “Usa! Usa! Use!”, But they were more related to the commemoration of September 11 than with Trump’s assistance to the game.
All that happened after Trump went through the locker room of the local team about 15 minutes before the game. He greeted the players and members of the team staff, and spoke about their proximity for years with the late owner of the Yankees, George Steinbrenner.
“He was a great friend of mine, the whole family,” he said.
Trump predicted that the Yankees would win, remembering what happened during his past visits to the park along with Steinbrenner.
“We won every time I came,” he recalled. “Do you think it was easy to sit with him for a game? It wasn’t. It was brutal. But he won, and you will win.”
Then he added: “They are going to get to the end, and they will enter the playoffs, and I think we will begin, how tonight? We will start from tonight, and they will do well.”
The Tigers beat the Yankees during the first two games in the series, on Tuesday and Wednesday, by a combined board of 23-3.
Trump said he wanted to “wish them good luck. They are great players, I know, each of you.”
He also recalled that the Yankees arch
Manager Aaron Boone said before Trump’s arrival that the Yankees left gardener, Anthony Volpe, had played with a partial tear of the labrum on his left shoulder, without revealing him. When greeting him, Trump gave him a soft palmadita on his shoulder.
“It’s something that I am excited to be part of,” Boone said about Trump’s presence.
A presidential visit always causes additional security measures in sporting events, but this need became even more pressing after Trump’s conservative activist and close ally, Charlie Kirk, was killed in Utah on Wednesday.
Hours before, when Trump attended the commemoration ceremony of September 11 in the Pentagon, the authorities transferred the act to the interior as an additional precaution.
The presence of Trump in the Yankees game on September 11 recalled the ceremonial launch of the first ball, made by President George W. Bush 24 years before, when the Yankees played against the Diamondbacks of Arizona in the 2001 World Series. It was a moment that came to symbolize national resilience, just a few weeks after the attacks.
From the attacks, the Yankees and their fans have commemorated on September 11 during the seventh inning singing “God Bless America” in addition to the traditional “Take Me out to the ballgame”, and would do it again on Thursday.
They also kept a moment of silence before the first release.
Even before Trump left the White House, the safety at the stadium was strict. Each entrance had metal detectors and secret service agents, some with tracker dogs, while helicopters from the New York Police Department fly over the stadium.
The park authorities opened the doors three hours before the first launch, and long ranks began to form even before that, although most of the crowd seemed to enter the stadium without problems. The Yankees reported that “ticket holders strongly urged to arrive as possible.”
The Secret Service also published a statement in which it reported that additional time would be needed. He asked that fans “consider leaving their bags and backpacks at home to help accelerate the security review process.”
Trump’s assistance to the male final of the United States Open in Queens last weekend caused safety rows long enough for some fans not to reach their seats until more than an hour after the game had begun, although the organizers delayed their start in 30 minutes.
The game is the eighth important sporting event that Trump attends since he returned to the White House in January. He attended the Super Bowl in New Orleans, at 500 miles from Daytona, KA UFC fights in Miami and Newark, New Jersey, the NCAA fighting championships in Philadelphia, to the FIFA Club World Cup final at East Rutherford, New Jersey, and the United States Open match last weekend.
The Yankee Stadium slate presented a large logo of the big leagues on an American flag and a red, white and blue loop under the inscription “September 11, 2001, we will not forget.”
The great American flag behind the left garden and flags of each of the 30 baseball teams around the upper level of the stadium arrived at half -mast after Trump issued an executive order in honor of Kirk.
Before Wednesday’s game, the Yankees kept a minute of silence per Kirk and showed their photo on the big stadium screen.
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