Vice President JD Vance weighed in on the sudden national controversy over San Francisco Giants pitchers writing Bible verses on their Pride Night caps.
Vance responded to the news that MLB issued a warning to players not to write Bible verses on their caps in a post on X on Tuesday.
“Trump won, we don’t have to do this anymore,” Vance wrote.
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The sudden controversy over caps has shaken the sports world in recent days.
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It started on Friday during Giants “Pride Night” game, as each player had to wear caps with the rainbow-colored Giants logo, supposedly in support of the LGBTQ community.
Three Giants players wrote Bible verses on their caps. Pitchers Landen Roupp, JT Brubaker and Ryan Walker wrote “Genesis 9:12-16.”
Vice President JD Vance speaks with Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington on November 20, 2025. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP Photo)
Genesis 9:12-16 is a passage from the Bible. The passage states that God established the rainbow as a perpetual sign of the covenant made with Noah and every living being. He goes on to state that when God sees the rainbow, he will remember his “everlasting covenant” to preserve all life on earth from another global flood.
Roupp, addressed his reasoning after the game, saying the verse is trying to represent “the covenant of God.”
“It’s just God’s covenant and a promise that he makes to us, you know, his faithfulness and his mercy,” Roupp told reporters. “That’s something I believe in, and I stand by that, and I’m grateful that we live in a country where, you know, we have the freedom to believe what we want… and express what we want.
“There’s no hate at all. It’s just what I stand for and what I stand for. I believe in God.”
Then on Tuesday, MLB officially issued a warning to those players not to violate the rules and write on their caps.
San Francisco Giants manager Tony Vitello lifts starter Landen Roupp during the fifth inning against the Chicago Cubs at Oracle Park in San Francisco, California, on June 12, 2026. (John Hefti/Image Images)
“The writing on the cap violates our rules and, consistent with normal practice, we have warned players of future violations,” Pat Courtney, MLB’s director of communications, said in a statement.
The MLB warning has sparked a backlash on social media, as actor Rob Schneider promised to pay any fines players incur by writing the passage on their caps. Schneider was born to a Jewish father and a Filipino Catholic mother.
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San Francisco Giants starter Landen Roupp pitches against the Chicago Cubs during the first inning at Oracle Park in San Francisco, California, on June 12, 2026. (John Hefti/Image Images)
“I will pay the fines for any Christian MLB player who wears a Bible verse on his uniform. The MLB is ANTI-CHRISTIAN,” the actor wrote in X.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier told MLB: “You will hear from my office soon.
