Trump Might Be the First President in 100 Years Not to Throw the First Pitch at an MLB Game

[Botany]

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Source: Marie Clarie

With Americans bitterly divided on life-and-death issues like reproductive rights and immigration, it might not seem like throwing out a ceremonial first pitch at a major league baseball game is all that important. But consider this: Every single sitting U.S. president has done it since William Howard Taft opened the Washington D.C. season in 1910. And every president since Ronald Reagan has showed off his arm on a major league field at some point during his first year in office. (The popular Reagan perhaps would have thrown out a first pitch in 1981 had he not been shot on March 30 of that year, days before the season began.)

A trip to the mound for Donald J. Trump in the near future would be anything but ceremonial. It would mark the first time our president, who ran on the platform of American Toughness, showed his face in public since his inauguration. Over the last three months, Trump has been safely chauffeured from the White House to one of his hotels to his campaign rallies to his private club and back again, insulated by a gauzy cocoon of yes-men who tell him that any polls that show him to be unpopular are fake, and any people protesting against his agenda are paid. In the early days of his own presidency, Barack Obama participated in town halls, appeared on The Tonight Show, and sat courtside at an NBA game between the Wizards and the Bulls. Trump on the other hand was forced to cancel his only public appearance yet, a friendly trip to a Harley-Davidson factory in Milwaukee, out of fear that protesters would steal his headlines and undercut his populist narrative.


Potential booing aside, Trump would surely welcome a chance to show off his athletic prowess and Adonis-like physical form. After all, according to his personal physician, the soon-to-be-71-year-old is the "healthiest individual ever elected president"—George W. Bush's six-minute miles and Barack Obama's visible abdominal muscles be damned.



Read more: http://www.marieclaire.com/politics/features/a26231/trump-ceremonial-first-pitch/

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Trump is afraid of the American people and that he might miss home plate by a mile.

[eppur_se_muova]

1. Fine by me. Other Presidents have better things to do, even if 45 doesn't.

Not every tradition is priceless. This is one that many of us wouldn't miss at all.

[caroldansen]

2. He doesn't like to be booed. Especially in public. He doesn't like negativity regarding himself.

And he lives in his own fantasy world. But you're right. He probably is also afraid of not being able to throw too far.

[dalton99a]

3. He's afraid of people taking pictures of him from every angle

"Had a great time. But the dishonest media used the worst photo of me! So unfair!"

[turbinetree]

4. I would / will go just so that I could yell at this ass**** ( IMPEACH HIM LOCK HIM UP LOCK HIM UP)

Where are your taxes returns ass**** , where are your tax returns ass****LOCK HIM UP Make America great again LOCK HIM UP

LOCK UP a F***ing this sexual predator

[DetlefK]

5. He cannot throw a baseball, because he's a 70yo office-slouch.

[GWC58]

6. The Nats invited Trump to throw

out the first pitch, while the O's didn't want Trump anywhere near Camden Yards.

[Heartstrings]

7. Ever hear the quote...

"Baseball, as American as Apple pie"?? It's a presidential tradition, one of many this president has thumbed his nose at.

[catbyte]

8. Ten bucks says he couldn't make it across home plate.

With those tiny little hands, he probably wouldn't be able to get a good grip on the ball.

[Initech]

9. He probably throws like this:

[SunSeeker]

27. Worse. This is what he looks like throwing a baseball:

[L. Coyote]

10. He has a pre-existing condition, his disability, a bone spur in his foot.

And he throws like a toddler.

[Jonny Appleseed]

11. Get Hillary Clinton to do it

He'd have a meltdown

[leftynyc]

14. I was thinking

if she had won, and she have had to practice in the middle of the night, she would have gotten it over the plate.

[gopiscrap]

30. that would be perfect!!!

[Doreen]

32. That would be perfect and wonderful.

Hell, I would watch it to see her throw the first pitch. I would then keep an eye out for trumps tweet which as usual makes him look stupid.

[left-of-center2012]

12. "a chance to show off his athletic prowess and Adonis-like physical form"

[left-of-center2012]

13. Put in Putin as relief pitcher? n/t

[n2doc]

15. Perhaps he can hit a golf ball at the catcher

He has lots of practice with that one, and it might go the distance needed to reach home plate. Maybe.

[IronLionZion]

16. He's not American

He even eats his steaks well done with ketchup. Uses a knife and fork for pizza and fried chicken.

These are among many signs that he's unfit for office

[TeamPooka]

17. Those tiny hands are made for grabbing pussy, not balls. nt

[mahatmakanejeeves]

18. Is Marie Claire part of the Cond Nast publishing group?

Doesn't look like it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Claire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cond%C3%A9_Nast

[Javaman]

19. he can't pick up the ball with his small hands. lol nt

[exboyfil]

20. Could you imagine if Obama refused?

That un-American Musloom.

[Botany]

24. Obama had no problems w/throwing out a 1st pitch

BTW he wore Chicago White Sox gear to the St. Louis Cardinals stadium and
loved getting booed for it too.

[Javaman]

21. donald trump jr.: "dad and I never had a catch with a baseball...

he used to take away my friends baseballs and shred them".

[keithbvadu2]

22. He doesn't want to participate in the All American Game... Russian games?

[onetexan]

23. He's afraid he'll be BOO'ed by the crowd

knowing he's terribly unpopular with the majority of Americans. He won't be in his "safe zone" where his deplorables will cheer him on so he's tucking his tail behind his ass and bucking this time honored tradition.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

33. Even FDR threw the baseball, ...

... and I'm sure there were some BOOs for him (from the high-priced seats, no doubt).

[ck4829]

25. Sad!

[cstanleytech]

26. He might just skip it if he cant wrap those tiny hands around the ball to throw it. nt

[HoneyBadger]

28. He used to take Jr to see the Yankees

I wonder if he would do it in the Bronx. We boo everyone.

[Deb]

29. he's a proven strike pitcher

swing batter batter

[Ms. Toad]

31. With so much else wrong with Trump, this is a non-issue.

[mcar]

34. Locking

Violates the Statement of Purpose for this forum.