Mookie Betts makes decision on Dodgers' White House visit after skipping with Red Sox

Mookie Betts won his 2nd World Series successful October, but this play volition people his archetypal clip commemorating a World Series triumph with President Donald Trump.

Betts won a rubric with the Boston Red Sox successful 2018, the aforesaid twelvemonth helium was named American League MVP.

However, helium opted to skip the team's solemnisation astatine the White House successful 2019. 

That volition not beryllium the lawsuit this year.

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Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts celebrates aft winning the 2024 World Series against the New York Yankees astatine Yankee Stadium.  (Wendell Cruz/Imagn Images)

"This is not astir me; I don’t privation thing to beryllium astir me. This is astir the Dodgers. Because these boys were determination for me," Betts said, via the L.A. Times.

Betts said helium regretted not making the travel successful 2019, which manager Alex Cora and pitcher David Price besides skipped, saying helium felt helium was a distraction.

"No substance what I accidental oregon what I do, radical are gonna instrumentality it arsenic political. But that’s decidedly not what it is. This is astir what the Dodgers were capable to execute past year," helium said.

Cora precocious admitted helium skipped retired connected gathering Trump due to the fact that helium wanted to prioritize his location state of Puerto Rico. When the Red Sox visited the White House successful May 2019, Puerto Rico was inactive recovering from the demolition of Hurricane Maria successful 2017, and Cora wasn't satisfied with the national government's response. 

Mookie Betts of the Los Angeles Dodgers reacts aft hitting an RBI treble successful the 4th inning of Game 4 of the NLCS against the New York Mets astatine Citi Field Oct. 17, 2024, successful New York, N.Y.  (Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images)

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Other Dodgers had been asked astir their presumption for the trip, but Betts' determination was understandably apical of mind.

"It is what it is. It comes with the territory, being Black successful America successful a concern similar this. It’s a pugnacious spot to beryllium in," helium said. "No substance what I choose, idiosyncratic is gonna beryllium pissed. Somebody is gonna person their ain opinion. But, again, this is not astir me. This is not astir politics. This is astir the Dodgers. It’s astir my loyalty to these boys, this clubhouse. And that’s each it is for me."

The Dodgers defeated Trump's hometown New York Yankees successful 5 games past year.

The Los Angeles Dodgers' Freddie Freeman, left; Shohei Ohtani, center; and Mookie Betts airs with their rings during a World Series ringing ceremonial earlier a crippled against the Detroit Tigers March 28, 2025, successful Los Angeles.  (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

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The Philadelphia Eagles volition sojourn the White House aboriginal this month, and the Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers visited earlier this year.

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