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I went live with former political director of the California Republican Party Mike Madrid yesterday to rip the Dodgers for announcing they will go visit Donald Trump in the White House the same week that Trump shared a racist video depicting Michelle and Barack Obama as monkeys on his Truth Social account. Madrid, a Dodger fan, wholeheartedly agreed.
The Dodgers will also be visiting Trump while he is overseeing a racist campaign to kidnap brown people, murdering American citizens for trying to protect their neighbors, and lying about all of it.
On top of all this, his justice department is currently laser focused on protecting powerful pedophiles, many of whom have ties to the Trump administration itself, including our commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, who admitted yesterday that he visited Epstein Island in 2012 after lying about cutting ties with the dead rapist pedophile.
It would be very easy for the Dodgers to skip the White House trip as they just went last year, and Trump’s approval rating currently sits at a record low of 31%. He has never been as weak and unpopular, and it will only get worse from here.
Even if the Dodgers aren’t content to simply “do the right thing” to be on the correct side of history, there are business reasons for the team not to go as well!
At least half of their fanbase is Latino, many of whom are undocumented and at risk of being thrown into the back of unmarked vans by masked goons and shipped to measles-infested concentration camps in Texas. It is a slap in the face to all of them, and to the rest of us who stand in solidarity with our community during this horrific time in American history.
The Dodgers may pretend like what’s happening in the United States right now is normal, and that their multibillion dollar business can insulate them from any consequences if they just cover their eyes and ears and go along to get along.
The rest of us cannot do that.
The team of Jackie Robinson and Fernando Valenzuela and THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES simply cannot sanction Trump’s actions with their presence. The Dodgers cannot allow Shohei Ohtani, the greatest baseball player of all time, to be photographed with a psychopath in the middle of his white nationalist ethnic cleansing purge. Japan does not like Trump either, with 70% of the population saying US-Japan ties have gotten worse since he took office a year ago.
Manager Dave Roberts cited having “respect for the office,” as a reason for going which is crazy, because Trump himself does not respect the office. He is currently knocking down the east wing of the White House to build a bribe monument to himself without congressional approval. He has shattered every norm of decorum and decency, and refuses to follow the rule of law or the Constitution.
Trump also just announced he’s cutting $328 million in health care grants that congress already allocated to California, just because he hates our state.
The Dodgers will likely visit the White House when the team goes to DC to play the Nationals from April 3rd to the 5th. They still have a few months to change their minds and do the right thing here, and I hope they will.
If corporate cowardice wins the day and the Dodgers do show up and smile alongside the worst president this republic has ever known, they deserve all the criticism that’s coming their way.
Thank you M Hope, Rich, Bob Pinzler, Mike Janke, Crocus Lover, and many others for tuning into the live video!
