Mookie Betts won his second world series in October, but this weekend he will mark his first time commemorating a World Series victory with President Donald Trump.
Betts won a title with the Boston Red Sox in 2018, the same year that MVP of the American League was appointed.
However, he chose to omit the team celebration in the White House in 2019.
That will not be the case this year.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers Campocorto, Mookie Betts, celebrates after winning the 2024 World Series against the New York Yankees in the Yankee Stadium. (Wendell Cruz/Imagn images)
“It’s not about me; I don’t want anything to be about me. It’s about the Dodgers. Because these boys were there for me,” Betts said, through the Times.
Betts said he regretted not having made the trip in 2019, that manager Alex Cora and pitcher David Price also skipped, saying that he felt it was a distraction.
“It doesn’t matter what they say or whatever, people will take it as a politician. But that is not what it is. This is what the Dodgers could achieve last year,” he said.
Recently, Cora admitted that he skipped Trump because he wanted to prioritize his country of origin from Puerto Rico. When the red socks visited the White House in May 2019, Puerto Rico was still recovering from the destruction of Hurricane Maria in 2017, and Cora was not satisfied with the federal government’s response.
Mookie Betts of the Los Angeles Dodgers reacts after hitting a double RBI in the fourth game of the NLCs game against the New York Mets in Citi Field on October 17, 2024, in New York, NY, NY (Photos of Daniel Shirey/MLB through Getty Images)
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Dodgers had been asked about their state for the trip, but Betts’s decision was understandably high mental.
“It’s what it is. It comes with the territory, being black in the United States in a situation like this. It is a difficult place to be,” he said. “It doesn’t matter what you choose, someone will be angry. Someone will have their own opinion. But, again, it’s not about me. It’s not about politics. It’s about the Dodgers. It is my loyalty to these children, this club house. And that’s all for me.”
The Dodgers defeated Trump’s hometown in the New York Yankees in five games last year.
Freddie Freeman of the Los Angeles Dodgers, left; Shohei Ohtani, center; And Mookie Betts poses with his rings during a World Series Ring ceremony before a match against Detroit’s Tigers on March 28, 2025 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
The Philadelphia Eagles will visit the White House at the end of this month, and the Stanley Florida Panthers champion visited earlier this year.
