{"id":394640,"date":"2026-07-11T11:04:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T11:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/394640\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T11:04:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T11:04:20","slug":"letters-another-dodgers-visit-to-white-house-draws-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/394640\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters: Another Dodgers visit to White House draws criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I am a lifetime resident of Los Angeles and my family has always rooted for the Dodgers. Last year we gave them a pass when they went to visit Trump at the White House. This year after Trump\u2019s attack on our community we cannot accept the Dodgers visiting Trump again<\/a>. Dave Roberts should know that the first obligation of a patriot is to stand up against tyranny. Shame on him and any other Dodger who goes to the White House this year. I will be canceling my Spectrum service. I\u2019m not playing with the future of our democracy.<\/p>\n

Felipe Caceres
Los Angeles<\/p>\n

If the Dodgers kowtow to Donald Trump yet again, Angelenos should consider boycotting the team for the rest of the season. Yes, they are an exceptional team and might return to the World Series yet again. However, other great athletes, such as the recent U.S. women\u2019s Olympic hockey team, have displayed their courage and integrity in refusing to bow down to that dangerous tyrant.<\/p>\n

By serving, as too many others continue to do, to support and enable the thug, they are enabling him in his inhumane and destructive policies and actions. As well, Trump invaded L.A., and the Dodgers did little to support the city they allegedly represent. If they return, it is more than a slap in the face of every sane and thoughtful Angeleno.<\/p>\n

Barry Cutler
Palm Desert<\/p>\n

I have always paid for the Dodgers\u2019 games on mlb.tv, but this year when the Dodgers did not decline the White House visit, I did not. I was holding out hope they wouldn\u2019t squeeze a visit in on their road trip after the All-Star Game and I\u2019d get half a season. Instead I\u2019m listening to the games on the radio. I\u2019ve heard the players say things like \u201cyou never know when this might happen again\u201d or \u201cit\u2019s tradition.\u201d I don\u2019t get either one of those excuses. Is Mookie Betts going to ask Trump why he posted the picture of the Obamas as monkeys? Or any of the players going to stand up for anything?<\/p>\n

How about be like the women\u2019s Olympic hockey team and stand up for what is right? Don\u2019t be a pawn for another photo op for this dysfunctional White House. Please?<\/p>\n

Marnie Jernagan
Fresno<\/p>\n

Columnist Bill Plaschke wants to impose his political views on us and the Dodgers<\/a>. Let each player decide if he wants to go to the White House, and if some players don\u2019t want to go, then fine \u2014 don\u2019t go. But why should all the players be confined to Plaschke\u2019s view of politics?<\/p>\n

David Waldowski
Laguna Woods<\/p>\n

I was a huge Dodgers fan until last year when they visited the White House. What a happy crowd they looked, even presenting President Trump with his own jersey, No. 47. That wasn\u2019t enough? They\u2019re off again, with Dave Roberts talking about \u201crespecting the highest office in the land, it doesn\u2019t matter who\u2019s in office\u201d while Clayton Kershaw, who presented the jersey is so \u201cexcited to go\u201d again. Roberts had previously talked about it being a tradition. Nothing about this White House or this president is traditional, and not going is not making a \u201cpolitical\u201d stand. It would be a stand for decency and normalcy. While visiting the East Wing maybe they can present Trump with the inaugural Baseball Peace Prize. Shame on the Dodgers!<\/p>\n

Jane Peters
Los Angeles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text”> I am a lifetime resident of Los Angeles and my family has always rooted for the Dodgers.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[63018,61169,426,145222,423,45798,48,52,51,7036,47,50,49,63,9442,158679,3020,427,1519,152141,2805],"class_list":["post-394640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ball-control","tag-belgium","tag-dodgers","tag-folarin-balogun","tag-game","tag-joy","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-last-year","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-player","tag-political-view","tag-president-trump","tag-team","tag-trump","tag-u-s-loss","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}