Well why don’t you just NOT invite the guy if it’s a headache for ya – PB/TK
Orioles exec: Trump apology before first pitch – USA TODAY SPORTS
A Baltimore Orioles executive says he’d prefer President Trump not throw out a first pitch at Camden Yards without first apologizing for statements that could be viewed as problematic “from a race, ethnicity, religious, gender, disability” standpoint.
John Angelos, son of owner Peter Angelos and the Orioles’ executive vice president and chief operating officer, said on a Baltimore-based podcast that divisive rhetoric and actions during Trump’s campaign and since his swearing-in require that the president re-double efforts to embrace all members of the community.
“Ultimately that decision is with the ownership group as to what major politicians and political figures and societal figures they want to invite,” Angelos said, per the Washington Post. “I know that the administration has taken a lot of criticism for its controversial positions; I think more so perhaps for statements made both during the campaign and since the administration came in concerning things that are considered to be problematic from a race, ethnicity, religious, gender, disability. People in those communities have been spoken about very negatively by a candidate and now president.
“You’re asking my personal opinion; I think it’s really incumbent upon any individual who leads the country to step away from those types of statements, to apologize for those statements and retract them. And then to turn the page, and then to move forward in embracing their community, all parts of that community. Until that happens, it wouldn’t be my preference to have the president come throw a pitch. But that’s up to the ownership as to what they would like to do there.”
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