{"id":220824,"date":"2025-09-12T12:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T12:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/220824\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T12:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T12:15:10","slug":"president-donald-trump-attends-new-york-yankees-game-on-sept-11-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/220824\/","title":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump attends New York Yankees game on Sept. 11 anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-people-and-pop-culture \"><b>President Trump<\/b> addressed the Yankees in the home clubhouse prior to the team\u2019s game against the Tigers on Thursday, the 24th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Trump then watched the game from a luxury box alongside Yankees President <b>Randy Levine <\/b>and owner <b>Hal Steinbrenner<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-people-and-pop-culture \">Trump drew applause from fans sitting in the 200-level when he first appeared in the box, located on the third-base side, as Detroit\u2019s starting lineup was being announced. It was more of a mix of cheers and boos when he was shown on the jumbotron saluting the flag during the playing of the National Anthem. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-people-and-pop-culture \">\u201cGeorge Steinbrenner was a great friend of mine, the whole family. Randy is wonderful. And I will say you\u2019re going to win,\u201d Trump told the Yankees in his pregame remarks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-people-and-pop-culture \">Trump also told Yankees RF <b>Aaron Judge<\/b>, a two-time AL MVP, \u201cYou\u2019re a fantastic player,\u201d and there were several \u201cUSA!\u201d chants from the crowd after Judge homered in the first inning, the first of his two home runs in the Yankees\u2019 9-3 win. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-people-and-pop-culture \">There was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/09\/11\/yankees-enhancing-security-with-trump-attending\/?issueId=4Z4HTSX45BCXRHFBOUSTS35DTI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/09\/11\/yankees-enhancing-security-with-trump-attending\/?issueId=4Z4HTSX45BCXRHFBOUSTS35DTI\">an increased security presence<\/a> outside Yankee Stadium, featuring several Secret Service and TSA agents, along with members of the NYPD. The Yankees encouraged fans to arrive as close to the 4pm ET gate opening as possible to expedite entry. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-people-and-pop-culture \">It was the second time in less than a week that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/09\/08\/fans-left-waiting-in-line-as-trump-attends-us-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/09\/08\/fans-left-waiting-in-line-as-trump-attends-us-open\/\">Trump attended a sporting event<\/a> in N.Y. He was at the U.S. Open men\u2019s final between <b>Carlos Alcaraz <\/b>and <b>Jannik Sinner <\/b>on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-people-and-pop-culture \">Earlier, Yankees manager <b>Aaron Boone<\/b>, P <b>Gerrit Cole <\/b>and P <b>Carlos Rodon <\/b>laid a wreath at the 9\/11 Monument in Monument Park in a tribute to those who lost their lives in the terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-people-and-pop-culture \">The Yankees and Mets will meet in the Bronx on the 25th anniversary of 9\/11 next year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump addressed the Yankees in the home clubhouse prior to the team\u2019s game against the Tigers on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":220825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[591,1266,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-220824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115191278765069685","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}