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(NewsNation) — The Los Angeles Dodgers are visiting the White House connected Monday to observe their triumph astatine the 2024 World Series.
Team president Stan Kasten said each the players wanted to attend, according to the Los Angeles Times.
“Remember, everyone successful present grew up wanting to beryllium a satellite champion and each the things that travel with it, and it comes with a champagne toast, silliness successful the locker room, a parade, rings, an invitation to the White House. It’s what they each travel to subordinate with being satellite champions," Kasten said. "Everyone wanted to go, and truthful we did.”
Dodgers prima Mookie Betts did not be the 2019 travel to the White House aft winning the 2018 World Series with the Boston Red Sox during President Donald Trump's archetypal term.
Betts is readying connected visiting this year, however, and said it was not a governmental decision, Bill Plunkett of the Orange County Register reported. Betts said helium regrets his determination not to enactment successful the Red Sox's White House trip.
"I made it astir me," Betts said. "I’m not the aforesaid idiosyncratic I was then."
Another Dodgers player, pitcher Blake Treinen, declined to sojourn the White House for an lawsuit hosted by erstwhile President Joe Biden aft the Dodgers won the 2020 season.
This year, though, helium says he's "pumped" to conscionable Trump, NPR reported.
Monday's sojourn comes aft a Department of Defense webpage connected shot and civilian rights icon Jackie Robinson’s subject work went missing amid the department’s run to region contented singling retired contributions by women and number groups. Trump has issued a fig of enforcement orders connected alleged "diversity, equity and inclusion" programs.
Robinson's webpage was aboriginal restored, and the Pentagon enactment retired a statement.
“We are pleased by the accelerated compliance crossed the Department with the directive removing DEI contented from each platforms,” spokesperson John Ullyot said. “In the uncommon cases that contented is removed — either deliberately oregon by mistake — that is retired of the intelligibly outlined scope of the directive, we instruct the components and they close the contented truthful it recognizes our heroes for their dedicated work alongside their chap Americans, period.”
NewsNation section affiliate KTLA and the Associated Press contributed to this report.
