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The Los Angeles Dodgers are the reigning World Series champions, meaning they person an accidental to sojourn President Donald Trump successful the White House.
However, a caller communicative successful the Los Angeles Times told their readers, "Don't stake connected it.'
The Times mentioned however Mookie Betts skipped retired connected a sojourn successful 2019 with the Boston Red Sox and remains outspoken astir societal justness issues, and different erstwhile Dodgers, arsenic good arsenic co-owners Magic Johnson and Billie Jean King, person been captious of the president successful the past.
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Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts (50) celebrates aft winning the 2024 MLB World Series against the New York Yankees astatine Yankee Stadium. (Wendell Cruz-Imagn Images)
Los Angeles volition beryllium successful D.C. aboriginal successful the season, with a three-game bid from April 7 done 9. That is apt to beryllium the clip the Dodgers would wage their visit. (They volition besides sojourn the adjacent Baltimore Orioles successful aboriginal September.)
But the Times said that "it's hard to imagine" the squad visiting 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
"All successful all, it’s hard to ideate the Dodgers agreeing to a celebratory photograph op with the president close now. Los Angeles is not conscionable Dodger blue, but Democrat blue," the communicative read. "The president mislaid L.A. County by 33 percent points. In his feuds with California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Trump has threatened to withhold occurrence catastrophe funds without concessions. He seems to ne'er miss an accidental to instrumentality a swipe astatine the Golden State.
"The World Champion Dodgers should basal up to, not adjacent to, the president. If an overture from the White House comes, they tin nonstop a affable note: Thanks, but no."
The Dodgers visited erstwhile president Joe Biden successful July 2021 to observe their 2020 World Series title.
The Los Angeles Dodgers airs for a representation with the Commissioner’s Trophy aft beating the New York Yankees successful crippled 4 to triumph the 2024 MLB World Series astatine Yankee Stadium. (Brad Penner-Imagn Images)
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The Philadelphia Eagles volition sojourn the White House connected April 28 amid their Super Bowl LIX victory, contempt anterior rumors that they would skip, arsenic they did successful 2018. The Florida Panthers precocious visited the president to observe their Stanley Cup triumph past summer.
The past title squad from the pros to sojourn Trump successful bureau during his archetypal presidency were the 2019 Washington Nationals, 5 days aft their World Series triumph implicit the Houston Astros (despite Sean Doolittle's criticisms of the president). The pandemic made visits tougher successful 2020, and by the clip restrictions started to beryllium lifted, Biden had taken office.
The UConn men's and LSU women's teams visited Biden past year. The erstwhile president was criticized for primitively not inviting the University of Georgia shot squad past year, and aft they received an invitation, the Bulldogs did not go. They besides did not marque the travel the twelvemonth before, owed to COVID-19 information precautions.
Los Angeles Dodger Shohei Ohtani, woman Mamiko Tanaka and canine Decoy get astatine Dodger Stadium for the team’s World Series Championship celebration. (Sandy Hooper-USA Today via Imagn Images)
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Both the Las Vegas Aces and Boston Celtics, the reigning WNBA and NBA champs, respectively, visited Biden earlier helium near office. The anterior NBA champions, the Denver Nuggets, notably canceled their sojourn past year, citing their quest to gain the No. 1 effect successful the Western Conference. (They got the No. 2 effect aft a tiebreaker.)
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