{"id":150326,"date":"2025-09-12T01:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T01:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/150326\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T01:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T01:44:08","slug":"trump-cheered-and-booed-while-marking-9-11-by-attending-a-new-york-yankees-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/150326\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump cheered and booed while marking 9\/11 by attending a New York Yankees game"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump attended the New York Yankees game<\/a> on Thursday night, drawing a mixed reaction while marking the 24th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Authorities installed security glass for the president outside the upper level box suite belonging to the Steinbrenner family, which owns the Yankees, on the third base side over the visiting Detroit Tigers dugout. Trump sat next to Yankees team president Randy Levine and chatted with him throughout the game.<\/p>\n

During the national anthem, the president was shown on the stadium jumbotron and received boos from some in the crowd, cheers from others.<\/p>\n

When Yankees slugger Aaron Judge hit a homer in the bottom of the first, Trump stood and applauded, as did members of an entourage that included Attorney General Pam Bondi and Lee Zeldin, a former New York congressman who is now head of the Environmental Protection Agency.<\/p>\n

In the second inning, Trump\u2019s attendance was announced and he was shown on the big screen for an extended period while \u201cHail to the Chief\u201d played. He smiled and pumped his fist repeatedly. Boos were heard at first, but many in the crowd cheered. <\/p>\n

A presidential visit always prompts extra security at sporting events, but things were heightened after conservative activist and close Trump ally Charlie Kirk was assassinated<\/a> in Utah on Wednesday. When Trump attended the Sept. 11 observance ceremony at the Pentagon earlier Thursday, authorities moved the ceremony inside as an added precaution. <\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s attendance recalled President George W. Bush\u2019s ceremonial first pitch 24 years earlier as the Yankees played the Arizona Diamondbacks in the 2001 World Series \u2014 a moment that came to symbolize national resilience after the attacks mere weeks earlier.<\/p>\n

Trump stopped by the home team\u2019s clubhouse shortly before the game. He shook hands with the players and team staff members and talked about being close for years with late, longtime Yankees owner George Steinbrenner.<\/p>\n

Trump predicted the Yankees would win, noting of his past attending games with Steinbrenner, \u201cWe won every time I came.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cYou think that was easy sitting with him for a game? It wasn\u2019t. It was brutal. But he won, and you\u2019re going to win,\u201d the president said. He also wished the players \u201ca lot of luck.\u201d <\/p>\n

Before the president walked in, relief pitcher Fernando Cruz was the last player in a towel. His teammates urged him to quickly get dressed for Trump. <\/p>\n

Manager Aaron Boone announced before Trump\u2019s arrival that Yankees shortstop Anthony Volpe had quietly been playing<\/a> with a partial labrum tear in his left shoulder. As he greeted him, Trump patted Volpe softly on the shoulder. <\/p>\n

Since the Sept. 11 attacks, the Yankees and their fans have marked the solemn occasion during the seventh-inning stretch by singing \u201cGod Bless America\u201d in addition to the traditional \u201cTake Me Out to the Ballgame,\u201d and they were doing so again Thursday. They also held a moment of silence before the first pitch. <\/p>\n

With Trump on hand, all stadium entrances featured metal detectors and Secret Service agents, some with sniffer dogs, while New York Police Department helicopters thundered overhead. <\/p>\n

Authorities opened the gates three hours before the first pitch, and long lines began forming even before that, though most of the crowd moved into the stadium smoothly. The Yankees said ticketholders were \u201cstrongly urged to arrive as early as possible.\u201d The Secret Service also said extra time would likely be needed while asking fans to consider leaving their bags at home.<\/p>\n

That followed Trump\u2019s appearance at the U.S. Open men\u2019s final in Queens last weekend sparking security lines<\/a> long enough that some fans didn\u2019t make it to their seats until more than an hour into the match, despite organizers delaying its start by 30 minutes. <\/p>\n

Thursday\u2019s game is Trump\u2019s eighth major sporting event since returning to the White House in January. He attended the Super Bowl<\/a> in New Orleans, the Daytona 500<\/a>, UFC fights in Miami<\/a> and Newark, New Jersey<\/a>, the NCAA wrestling championships in Philadelphia<\/a>, the FIFA Club World Cup final<\/a> in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and last weekend\u2019s U.S. Open match.<\/p>\n

The Yankee Stadium scoreboard featured a large MLB logo over an American flag and a red, white and blue ribbon under the inscription \u201cSeptember 11, 2001, We Shall Not Forget.\u201d <\/p>\n

The large American flag behind the left field bleachers and the smaller flags for each of baseball\u2019s 30 teams that ring the stadium\u2019s upper level were lowered to half-staff after Trump issued an executive order honoring Kirk. Before Wednesday\u2019s game, the Yankees held a moment of silence for Kirk and flashed his picture on their stadium\u2019s big screen.<\/p>\n

Trump was born in the New York borough of Queens and, though he\u2019s lived in Florida in recent years, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said he \u201cremains a New Yorker at heart.\u201d Still, Trump\u2019s appearances at baseball games haven\u2019t always been welcomed by fans. <\/p>\n

During his first term in 2019, Trump tried to make a low-profile appearance as the Washington Nationals hosted the Houston Astros in the World Series, but was booed roundly<\/a> when shown on the stadium\u2019s big screen. There were even chants of \u201cLock him up!\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 President Donald Trump attended the New York Yankees game on Thursday night, drawing a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[1992,4260,4701,1927,12,76815,793,65493,12805,17153,19249,363,2008,6377,2005,369,3131,111,31954,92706,88887,99,7917,800],"class_list":{"0":"post-150326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-aaron-boone","9":"tag-aaron-judge","10":"tag-anthony-volpe","11":"tag-ap-top-news","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-fernando-cruz","14":"tag-general-news","15":"tag-george-steinbrenner","16":"tag-george-w-bush","17":"tag-karoline-leavitt","18":"tag-lee-zeldin","19":"tag-mlb","20":"tag-mlb-baseball","21":"tag-national","22":"tag-new-york","23":"tag-new-york-yankees","24":"tag-pam-bondi","25":"tag-politics","26":"tag-queens","27":"tag-randy-levine","28":"tag-september-11-attacks","29":"tag-sports","30":"tag-u-s-secret-service","31":"tag-washington-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150326","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=150326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}