Trump now says he won't throw first pitch at Aug. 15 Yankees game

[groundloop]

Source: Politico

President Donald Trump on Sunday said he would not be throwing out the first pitch at a New York Yankees game next month after all.

“Because of my strong focus on the China Virus, including scheduled meetings on Vaccines, our economy and much else, I won’t be able to be in New York to throw out the opening pitch for the @Yankees on August 15th,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “We will make it later in the season!”

The president announced on Thursday that he would throw out the first pitch in the Aug. 15 game against the Boston Red Sox, hours before Anthony Fauci, one of the administration’s most recognizable figures in its coronavirus response, threw the ceremonial first pitch to mark Opening Day for the Washington Nationals.

“The key is to get back to normal,” the president said then. “Nobody wants to see this. I think it is really good that baseball is opening. It looks like football is opening. It looks like sports are opening. It’s a tremendous thing psychologically for our country.”

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/26/trump-first-pitch-yankees-381848

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He sure the hell has plenty of time to play golf at taxpayer expense though.

He's just afraid he'll be shown up by Susan Rice.

[CaptYossarian]

1. His strong focus is on the possibility of the players kneeling.

[Sanity Claws]

2. Afraid of a little Bronx cheer

https://gothamist.com/news/bronx-bp-unloads-on-trumps-yankee-stadium-visit-calling-out-bombers-for-inviting-a-white-supremacist

[Grokenstein]

3. As usual, gotta get that racist dig in there.

Donny and his toadies are just obsessed with calling it "the China Virus"...then pretending that they're not a pack of bigoted, childish assholes.

[Laffy Kat]

4. He doesn't want to hear all the boos.

If he can't control the crowd make-up, he's not going to be attending any public functions from here on out, I suspect.

[groundloop]

6. What crowd?

[Laffy Kat]

8. Oh, gosh, you're right! My bad.

[louis-t]

5. What, is he afraid the batboys will boo him?

He's afraid the fake crowd noise track will boo him.

And the cardboard cutouts of fans in the outfield will give him the finger.

[Cirque du So-What]

12. Boo!

Boo!

[sop]

7. Trump knows he'd throw the pitch into the dirt fifteen feet from the mound.

[hay rick]

18. He doesn't want to be shown up by Fauci.

[rpannier]

21. They should invite this woman to throw at the same time

We know trump isn't anywhere close to being as good as she is

[TreasonousBastard]

9. The 15th is a Saturday, so he'll be too busy golfing. It's almost pointless calling him a...

lying sac of shit any more.

But he is a lying sack of shit.

[Hassler]

10. He needed two hands to drink water, imagine what he'd do with a baseball.

Something like a basketball free throw landing at his feet and rolling down the mound.

[Cha]

11. Translated.. "Strong focus on the trump Virus.. " Read

Putin's Puppet is Not going to do a damn ******* thing.

[riversedge]

13. Here is a Pic of Trump catching a ball...............

Link to tweet

?s=20

[JudyM]

15. And that was a slow lob.

[amcgrath]

14. He won't throw out the first pitch

Because he knows he will be booed out of the stadium.

His claim that he is too busy on a Sunday, to throw out a pitch, seems weak, when he has spent every weekend recently playing golf.

[splat]

16. Booed by whom?

There won't be any fans there.

[groundloop]

25. Booed by 3/4 of the players, the batboys, and fake crowd noise.

[Progressive Jones]

17. He's a coward. He knows that he's hated. He fears for his life at this point, I suppose. nt

[Initech]

19. Doesn't he have a job to do or something?

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[Totally Tunsie]

20. He can't throw out the first pitch. He injured his throwing arm

patting himself on the back and tooting his horn.

[rpannier]

22. Bone spurs in his hand

[yuiyoshida]

23. Fuck his "CHINA" Virus ...

彼は人種差別主義者なので、それを今でも中国のウイルスと呼んでいます...

[Roy Rolling]

24. No problemo....

Obama is a wicked left-hander and available to pitch August 15.

Do it Barack.

[NurseJackie]

26. He'll probably throw like a young (gender-neutral) child who's never held a baseball.