Kudos to Doolittle. They're probably only getting MacDonald's and Chick-Fil-A anyway.Washington Nationals pitcher Sean Doolittle will not visit the White House with his teammates when President Trump hosts the club to celebrate their World Series victory.
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“There’s a lot of things, policies that I disagree with, but at the end of the day, it has more to do with the divisive rhetoric and the enabling of conspiracy theories and widening the divide in this country," Doolittle said.
"My wife and I stand for inclusion and acceptance, and we’ve done work with refugees, people that come from, you know, the ‘shithole countries,' ” he added, referencing remarks Trump made in 2018 about immigrants coming from Haiti and other African nations.
Doolittle went on to say that "as much as I wanted to be there with my teammates and share that experience with my teammates, I can’t do it."
The Hill
Which is the real reason it was canceled. Would have been embarassing optics if no one showed up.Several players from the 2018 World Series champion Boston Red Sox skipped the team's visit to the White House in May. Manager Alex Cora, a Puerto Rican native, said at the time that he did not feel comfortable visiting given the administration's response to Hurricane Maria, which devastated the island in 2017.
After the Toronto Raptors won the NBA championship just a month later, guard Danny Green said that the team likely wouldn't visit the White House, saying that the president "makes it very, very tough to respect how he goes about things and does things."
Braden Holtby, the Washington Capitals' star goalie, skipped the team's White House visit in March following its 2018 Stanley Cup victory.
Trump last year also disinvited the Philadelphia Eagles over the team's support of national anthem protests, though few players from the Super Bowl-winning team reportedly planned to attend the event before it was canceled.
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