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Crowd reacts as Donald Trump arrives at US Open<\/p>\n
President Donald Trump was greeted by the crowd as he arrived at the men’s final match of the U.S. Open.<\/p>\n
Resistance takes many forms.<\/p>\n
Sometimes it\u2019s people taking to the streets in protest, as they did this weekend in Chicago and its suburbs. Sometimes it\u2019s governors banding together to ensure their citizens have access to vaccines that have been thoroughly vetted, as the governors of California, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii have.<\/p>\n
And sometimes it\u2019s ABC and ESPN not muting the full-throated chorus of boos that occurred when the president of the United States was shown at the U.S. Open<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n The U.S. Tennis Association\u2019s request<\/a> that broadcasters \u201crefrain from showcasing any disruptions to the President’s attendance in any capacity” was an embarrassment. This is not North Korea or Russia, and it is not ABC\u2019s, ESPN\u2019s or any other broadcaster\u2019s job to stroke President Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s ego. His vice president, Cabinet secretaries and Republican House leadership have that covered.<\/p>\n ABC and ESPN refused to kowtow. While they didn\u2019t linger on Trump when he was shown during the national anthem ahead of the men\u2019s final between Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>, they didn\u2019t filter out the reaction to him, either. The jeers and catcalls, resounding in Arthur Ashe Stadium, were clearly audible.<\/p>\n ABC broadcast the match while ESPN livesteamed it on its app.<\/p>\n Refusing to bow to authoritarian demands is important, regardless of whether they come from the White House or a sports governing body. If Trump chooses to go to the U.S. Open, it\u2019s fair game for ABC and ESPN to show the public\u2019s reaction to it. Just as it was in 2000, when then-President Bill Clinton went.<\/p>\n To suggest otherwise was wholly inappropriate by the USTA and, worse, served to overshadow the anticipation for the latest meeting in what has become tennis\u2019 next great rivalry. Instead of talking about Sinner and Alcaraz, the focus before the match was on the USTA\u2019s clumsy attempt at censorship. \u00a0<\/p>\n ABC and ESPN\u2019s refusal to sugarcoat Trump\u2019s reception was important for another reason, too.<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s most diehard supporters often get their news from outlets \u2014 Fox News<\/a> and X<\/a>, to name two \u2014 that consider facts to be an inconvenience. These people are fed a steady diet of lies about Trump and his most horrific policies and ideas, giving them a worldview that does not reflect reality.<\/p>\n These people are told Chicago is the \u201cmurder capital of the world,\u201d prices have come down and manufacturing jobs are coming back to the United States. This toxic stew of propaganda also serves to create the illusion that Trump is wildly popular, beloved by everyone except the nasty libs.<\/p>\n None of this is true, of course. Chicago\u2019s homicide rate isn\u2019t even in the top 20<\/a> of major U.S. cities and crime there has been falling<\/a>. Prices remain stubbornl<\/a>y<\/a> high<\/a>, and retailers are starting to say they will have to hike prices even further because of Trump\u2019s tariffs<\/a>. The latest jobs report, issued on Sept. 5, showed a loss of 12,000 manufacturing jobs<\/a>, continuing a decline for the year.<\/p>\n And poll after poll show more people disapprove of both Trump <\/a>and his policies<\/a> than approve of them.<\/p>\n Anything that can pierce Trump supporters\u2019 bubble of misinformation is a good thing. Hearing Trump get jeered \u2014 loudly \u2014 for a couple of seconds during the U.S. Open broadcast might not cause the fever to break. But it could make his supporters question why. Especially if they\u2019re already feeling disillusioned about their growing grocery bills or Trump\u2019s refusal to release the Epstein files<\/a>.<\/p>\n A seconds-long clip of a president being booed on a U.S. Open broadcast shouldn\u2019t be a big deal. But so many guardrails have been erased by Trump and his minions, and obeying the USTA\u2019s edict would have been one more. Good for ABC and ESPN for recognizing that.<\/p>\n Follow USA TODAY Sports columnist Nancy Armour on social media @nrarmour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crowd reacts as Donald Trump arrives at US Open President Donald Trump was greeted by the crowd as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[13716,228,25246,53377,157,19553,13715,14804,12,88,352,31425,15606,13962,6265,11320,10094,851,2091,19559,52750,432,3729,13723,34645,32362,3,8306,1767,56408,13470,34647,25245,111,19550,19557,25244,25249,11946,99,2415,41229,428,3479,92,41231,2830,31291,13692],"class_list":["post-140726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-affiliate","tag-arts","tag-branch","tag-championships","tag-chicago","tag-competitions","tag-content","tag-donald","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-espn","tag-espn-inc","tag-executive","tag-executive-branch","tag-fox","tag-fox-news","tag-il","tag-inc","tag-international","tag-international-sports-competitions","tag-jannik","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-local","tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","tag-negative","tag-networks","tag-news","tag-open","tag-opinion","tag-opinion-content","tag-overall","tag-overall-negative","tag-party","tag-politics","tag-racquet","tag-racquet-sports","tag-republican","tag-republican-party","tag-sinner","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-stations","tag-tennis","tag-trump","tag-tv","tag-tv-networks-u0026-stations","tag-u-s","tag-u-s-open-tennis-championships","tag-u0026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}