I am alway struck by the photo’s of President Obama ‘s that had him journeying out to spend time with everyday American’s during his time in office…
Smiles and joyous excitement flowed with those interactions…
Question?
When was the last time you saw Donald Trump do the same?
Why not?
His visit to the World Series game today probably explains it….
President Donald Trump attended Sunday’s Game 5 of the World Series at Nationals Park, but he wasn’t the recipient of a warm welcome.
Not even close.
Trump, who did not arrive in time for the national anthem or first pitch, was shown on the videoboard ahead of the fourth inning during a Salute to Veterans in-game segment. The crowd immediately responded by booing Trump loudly.
After initially boing Trump, the crowd continued into a “lock him up” chant. Trump is the subject of an impeachment inquiry by the House of Representatives.
This was the scene at Nationals Park:
Jesse Yomtov
@JesseYomtovTrump booed
Adam Longo
@adamlongoTVPresident Trump was booed loudly by the fans at Nats Park when he was shown on the big screen.
Then came a loud chant: “Lock him up.” @wusa9
Playbook: “Nobody ought to be surprised that the president was booed at Nats Park, in a city where more than 90% of voters choose his opponent in 2016. What was striking, though, was that the reaction came only hours after President Trump proudly announced the death of Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, the leader of ISIS, in a U.S. military raid.”
“We’re not sure what the president expected to happen, but closeups of his face during the crowd’s reaction as name was announced on the stadium PA show a smile hardening into a slight scowl. How will he react today?”
“It’s a sign of the president’s isolation, too, that he took only his staunchest Republican allies with him to the game, along with the first lady. Nats Park is perhaps one of the only gathering places in town that draws Republicans and Democrats in equal measure — but his box was all red….
Politicalwire…
Donald Trump is coming to Chicago today for the first time since 2015. At least one of the newspaper is acting like there will be an outbreak of a deadly plague today.
I suppose he brings much of that upon himself.
Yes….
That and the booing….
Image?
Barack Obama did NOT have this issue ….
Obama had people crying in seeing HIM elected and being President….
Trump LOST by 3m votes and IS at 40% approval….
No wonder people ain’t happy to see him…
With ALL this?
People think he’s gonna pull out a second term?
Plenty of people cried (both happy and sad, but mostly sad) when Trump won.
Let’s not pretend that Obama was a very popular or unifying President though for most of his eight years.
Tell us about all the times Obama called people, even his fellow party members “scum.”
The “whataboutisms “ Just ain’t what they used to be.
He didn’t use that word publicly, but not sure what comparison you are trying to make. Obama definitely spoke down about people who opposed him and questioned their motives at every turn.
Just about all politicians get booed at sporting events while they are in office. (GWB right after 9/11 being a huge exception)
Of course politicians will criticize those that criticize them.Whats new?
But there has never been anything like Trump and you know it.
You’ve even referred to him as a “psychopath.”
True. But that doesn’t change a myth that Obama was a beloved figure in America. He had plenty of legitimate political opposition among the public during eight years.
I wish we had a President different from both Trump and Obama in terms of ego and arrogance. Trump being the “worst ever” is not the only salient point.
There has been very little backlash from your fellow Republicans over Trumps comment either.
Apparently most Republicans either agree with him or at least acquiesce to it.
Yet here you are trying vaguely to “defend “ him and them.
With “comparisons” to others.
What exactly Is your point?
Not at all. You are being paranoid.
Gotta run for now.
Of course you are.
You are somehow trying to “hint” that what Trump is doing is normal.
Barack Obama never talked about people in the manner Trump has done and you know it.
You just can’t let any favorable comment about him go even if it means in some way excusing Trumps actions with your “they all do it” like routine.
And Mike Pence has never said that Democrats will “put y’all back in chains”
What’s the point? You know what I think of Trump. I like the clip of him being booed. I would have booed too. Just about any sitting President would have been booed at a baseball game in DC by the “other side.”
For Trump, the people booing were bipartisan.
I don’t give adamn about “booing” at a baseball game, never mentioned it at all and had nothing to do with my point.
I was talking about the booing and it seemed to me that is what you were responding to.
Blame the poor structure of the format here.
I addressed “human scum” in detail on my long-winded blog that you don’t read.
I read it.
I’m not as “forgiving “ of you I guess.
If the Leader of the Democratic Party called me “human scum?”
I could find better things to do with my time that posting comments comparing Republicans to him.
Or giving faint praise to his lapdog VP..
But that’s just me I guess.
Yes ,by all means continue to post your well known “whataboutisms.”
As Trump and your fellow Republicans essentially tell you to Go To Hell?
I haven’t given “faint praise” to anyone.
I made it clear what I think of Trump, whom I do not even actually consider a Republican.
And I know that many left-wingers completely share the view that conservatives are “human scum” or worse.
So, while I will remain as opposed to Trump as ever, it’s not going to make me join y’all like some sort of sucker.
Pence?What did he say about Trump calling fellow Republicans “human scum?
Maybe I missed it?
Pence gives new meaning to the words, “abject sycophant.”
And what did Obama say when Biden publicly suggested that a return to human Chatterley was a policy goal of Mitt Romney?
Seriously CG?
Google the pictures of Obana at sports games or events
YUGE difference,…
Check on Obama out among the ‘ people’
Again?
YUGE difference
Actually
Because of the booing?
Trump packs his outside the bubble with ‘yes’ people….
While Jack keep’s fronting Trump’s popularity among his ‘base’?
They are only 40% of the population
Any sporting event when he was ever on a Jumbotron, he would have gotten booed. Yes, the boos for Trump last night were likely lustier.
The only “baseball” thing Obama ever did was throw out the first pitch at the All Star game just a few months into his Presidency in St, Louis.
He was booed. You can check out the video, He was “smart enough” to reveal a White Sox jacket (and Dad jeans) so he could provide an excuse to the booing.
Obama went out mixed and with the people….
Ref: Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents
by Pete Souza
Link….
A great visual comparison…..
Check it out…
Direct comparison’s
Proves my point without a doubt…
Remarkable
Obama would have been booed at a World Series too.
DC was a bad place for Trump to try to go to a World Series though.
The main difference is that among the “elite” DC crowd who had the money (or connections) to go to a World Series game, the crowd booing Trump was bipartisan.
It was likely the most bipartisan moment in Washington since right after 9/11/01.
I wonder if the Nationals did a special twist to the “Racing Presidents” thing they do every game. They could have put a guy in a Trump mask and had him fall on his ass and the crowd would have gone wild.
As for baseball, it’s really got to be very sad for Nationals fans to realize their luck has likely run out. I was hoping for them to win the W.S. but blowing all three at home, even when having a 2-0 lead, is pretty much a death sentence. (Curse of Trump?… I blame Obama for cursing the Bulls) I remember this happening to the Braves in 1996, and they lost in 6. I am sure that they their fans thought it was inevitable they would have already won the series.
I hope the Nationals find a way to win the next two, but that means that the road team would have won every game in the W.S. (as well as a majority of the other post-season games this season.)
Last night, Fox Sports said that only two Series have had the visitors win every game: 1996 and — one dear to CG’s heart — 1906.
But one should be wary of patterns that don’t establish rules: e.g. that a sitting Vice President after the Civil War could never win election to the Presidency [ask GHWB], or that it’s impossible to bounce back from a 0-3 series, which the Red Sox did once, if not twice, in 2004,
I believe in 1906 the Cubs and White Sox may have played in the same ballpark all the games.
No. South Side Park and West Side Grounds. No need for hotels though.
If it wasn’t a subway series, I assume it was an El series.
See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Series#Local_rivalries
(an article where I spent a lot of time editing)
Democrat Chris Coons is being a weenie.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/467698-democratic-senator-criticizes-crowd-booing-trump-the-office-of-the-president
Let the crowd boo and let them chant. There is a long tradition of that towards Presidents at baseball games. It’s great we show the world we have the freedom to do so .
I said “lock her up” chants at the convention, etc, were beyond tacky, but on something like this, turnabout is fair play.
Joe and Mika were upset too. Spare me.
If he was at a game in Chicago, the chants from the crowd would have been a lot worse than “lock him up.”
And yes, “lock him up” will be a frequent chant at the Milwaukee convention next summer.
And then Republicans will do it too in response (either him or her, doesn’t matter who or why) and this is where we are sadly at as a country.