Fans Unfurl Massive 'Trump 2020' Banner at Fenway Park

[George II]

Source: NBC Boston

Several fans unfurled a massive Trump 2020 banner at Friday night’s Boston Red Sox game against the Seattle Mariners, prompting other fans to quickly rip it down.

The incident, which happened at Fenway Park, quickly spread on social media, where fans posted photos and videos and offered mixed opinions.

“I would’ve ripped it down as well,” Aimie Searles said. “Good for them.”

Another fan disagreed.

“Yell and scream at it,” Steven Salhaney said. “Yeah, I agree. Boo. Definitely. Tearing it down? No.”

Shortly after the incident, Dion Cini accepted responsibility for the fiasco, posting a photo of himself holding the banner on Twitter with the caption: “Got my flag back.”

Cini was banned for life from Disney World last year after he waved another Trump 2020 sign on the Splash Mountain ride at the Magic Kingdom.

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[keithbvadu2]

1. Banner

[TheBlackAdder]

39. Shouldn't it be the Boston Red Socks?

[SunSeeker]

2. Why these Trumpanzees want to ruin our few areas of family fun?

Why do they think unfurling a big ugly pointless Trump banner in areas they know it will not be well received is a good idea?

What do they think that accomplishes?

It's like they enjoy forcing themselves on people. It's so fucking dictatorial, like Shitler himself. And stupid.

[sheshe2]

6. Hey you.

Well...

SunSeeker

2. Why these Trumpanzees want to ruin our few areas of family fun?

Because white privilege.

What do they think that accomplishes?

The want to hurt, marginalize and inflict pain on anyone not white enough.

It's like they enjoy forcing themselves on people. It's so fucking dictatorial, like Shitler himself. And stupid.

This is what dump and his dumpers do. They force themselves on women and minorities and grab them by whatever. I am not much of a sports person yet love our Red Soxs. Makes me never want to go to another game.

They want to destroy America any and every way they can. Baseball is like apple pie. It is loved and they wish to take even that small happiness away from us.

Fugg Them All!

[SunSeeker]

12. Yep. They just drip hate. nt

[sheshe2]

16. Yep.

[dalton99a]

3. Trash for the landfill

Link to tweet

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[modrepub]

25. If I had my seat in that section below I'd be pissed

wouldn't matter what the banner said but it's pretty obnoxious that someone would unfurl anything that got in the way of someone else's view. Figures, it looks like they're in the cheap seats.

[kacekwl]

28. Exactly.

The fact it's a trump sign is a bonus.

[Lefta Dissenter]

26. One can only guess

what the woman to the lower left is shouting to them.

[Aristus]

33. Trash?

Are you talking about the banner? Or about the people who put it up?

[cstanleytech]

4. Everyone involved in unfurling it should be banned for life by the MLB if of course

they have that ability to ban them.

[iluvtennis]

5. +++ agree

[sheshe2]

7. YES!

[Progressive Jones]

10. It happened at Wrigley Field a couple of days ago.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/cubs/ct-spt-cubs-doug-glanville-racist-gesture-wrigley-field-20190508-story.html

[cstanleytech]

15. I am not talking about one major league field I am talking about a ban from all of them for life.

[oasis]

23. These folks have been popping out of the woodwork during Trump's "reign".

Trump has a talent for bringing out the worst in American society.

[Clash City Rocker]

27. Chicago, where two black women just competed to be mayor

Boston is, shall we say, a little less famous for their cultural sensitivity. I’m sure some of that is an unfair stereotype.

[dewsgirl]

29. Thought this was an old story at first, because I saw that

One the other day.

[ck4829]

8. Got a feeling that these same fans would have thrown a fit if the players kneeled though

[Initech]

9. Oh there would be a beer thrown or two for sure!

[Progressive Jones]

11. Maybe, but I doubt it. Baseball fans aren't quite as "conservative" as football fans.

Overall, it's a more genteel crowd.

[pstokely]

30. baseball fans tend be older and whiter

nt

[George II]

36. I think most professional sports fans are older and whiter. Look at the crowd at any NBA game....

....usually a bunch of old white men.

[former9thward]

40. The people attending a NBA game do not reflect "professional sports fans".

Those tickets are expensive. The people following on TV or elsewhere is far different.

[pstokely]

45. NBA fans tend to be younger, urban, and less white

not exactly the MAGAt demographic

[LanternWaste]

47. The price for an average NFL ticket is $110.20 The average NBA ticket price is $89.00 per ticket.

The price for an average NFL ticket is $110.20, while a premium ticket runs $346.96. The average NBA ticket price is $89.00 per ticket.

[pstokely]

44. rich white men, regular fans can't afford the good seats

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they never show the nosebleed seats on TV

[pstokely]

48. maybe in NYC

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/tv-funhouse-kick-game/2870516

[pstokely]

49. likely college sports as well

students don't even go to the games anymore except to tailgate

[SergeStorms]

13. Being a Yankees fan...

I think that entire decrepit, ugly, old stadium should have been burned to the ground, sign and all. That's simply a Yankees fan's take on it though.

[jmowreader]

17. I've been to New Yankee Stadium and Fenway

NYS has no soul whatsoever. Fenway does.

[SergeStorms]

42. If you want to call...

that stupid green wall in left field "soul"........

[George II]

37. Fenway Park is one of the best maintained stadiums in baseball. Its one of only three or four...

...(if even that many) real baseball stadiums. Have you ever been there?

Over the years I've been to Ebbets Field, Polo Grounds, ORIGINAL (and 2nd generation, too) Yankee Stadium, Comiskey Park, Wrigley Field, and Fenway Park. They're all gone except for Fenway and Wrigley. I wish we had more stadiums like Fenway Park.

[SergeStorms]

43. Yes, I've been there.

I've been to just about every AL park (until they started shifting around the teams). Fenway blows, mostly because of that stupid green wall in left field, but then again it is the home field of the Dead Sox, so how could it not?

[mahina]

14. We don't know they're Sox fans.

I don’t anyway.

[tclambert]

18. You mean Red Socks fans?

The same kind of morans who hate muslins?

[mahina]

19. Hey man, are those aspersions cast on my asparagus?

Go Sox!
Dump Chump!

[RhodeIslandOne]

20. They're the White Socks now n/m

[Ramsey Barner]

21. Say it ain't so, Rho[deIslandOne]!

[George II]

38. I think Dion Cini is a New Yorker (much to my chagrin!), he's pulled this trick....

....in Madison Square Garden, Grand Central Station, outside the Beacon Theater where Bill and Hillary Clinton were appearing, INSIDE a transatlantic flight (!!) Epcot Center, and Disneyworld. He's been banned for life by Disney.

He's just a hateful, nasty, clearly very unhappy person desperately in need of mental health care.

[Maxheader]

22. Theys lonely....

and lookin for attention....

[Cold War Spook]

24. We need to start carrying banners with the picture of his wife nude with that other woman.

Ours will read, Trump's wife, Melania, prefers women. They show theirs, we show ours. It will drive Trump crazy. Or just display the banner wherever Trump can see it. How about the 4th of July celebration?

[dem4decades]

31. Dion Cini doesn't think he's an immigrant? What a dope.

[randr]

32. The modern day version of mooning?

[Totally Tunsie]

34. Blasphemy! How dare they sully the great Fenway with their trash!

[truthisfreedom]

35. In his fucking dreams

[oldsoftie]

41. Meh. Shit like this happens. People like to get their OWN attention. No big deal.

The Kardashianism of America.

[Judi Lynn]

46. I'd feel safe in betting someone is paying these dirtbags to do that.

They probably don't even like baseball, but like the idea of leaving the Trump scent everywhere, since it's synonymous with race-hatred, and can be the equivalent of one of their hateful patio torch parades. Just like wearing their red Trump hats.

I think it's more than possible they are taking money to do it, and not fans at all, or they'd rather just go there to watch the game, not get watched, themselves.