President Donald Trump seems on the massive display screen throughout his go to to Yankee Stadium on Sept. 11, 2025.
Screenshot from picture by Emily Swanson
President Donald Trump visited Yankee Stadium Thursday because the group commemorated the twenty fourth anniversary of the 9/11 assaults and defeated the Detroit Tigers by a rating of 9-3.
With the victory, not solely did the Yankees keep away from the sequence sweep, however Aaron Decide hit two residence runs to tie Joe DiMaggio’s file for the fourth-most residence runs in franchise historical past.
Trump’s Sept. 11 go to marked simply the third time a sitting President has attended a Yankees sport. George W. Bush threw out the ceremonial first pitch on Oct. 30, 2001, and Warren G. Harding attended a sport in 1923, the inaugural yr of the unique Yankee Stadium.
Safety was extraordinarily tight round Yankee Stadium, the place gates opened a full three hours earlier than sport time.Picture Emily Swanson
Safety across the Presidential go to was extraordinarily tight, with quite a few Secret Service and TSA brokers, emergency autos, law enforcement officials and canines, thorough bag checks, and greater than the same old variety of streets closed. Gates opened a full three hours forward of the 7:05 p.m. first pitch, and attendees have been suggested to reach as early as potential.
The tightened safety was possible additionally linked to the 9/11 anniversary and Wednesday’s assassination of shut Trump ally Charlie Kirk, 31, the conservative activist who was shot and killed throughout a talking engagement at Utah Valley College. The group had held a second of silence in Kirk’s honor that night time.
Earlier than Thursday’s sport, Trump greeted the group within the clubhouse, and a part of the gang noticed him from his seat as beginning lineups have been introduced. Many followers waved and filmed on their telephones.
President Donald Trump visits the Yankees clubhouse on Sept. 11, 2025.Picture REUTERS
The President was proven on the massive display screen saluting as FDNY firefighter Regina Wilson sang the Nationwide Anthem and once more in the course of the second inning as “Hail to the Chief” rang out. Trump stood, smiled and waved to the gang of 41,000 amid loud cheers and a few boos.
The President’s go to and 9/11 commemoration made for a singular environment within the stadium, the place greater than the same old present of patriotism was on show. On a number of events, together with after Decide’s residence runs, followers pumped their fists and shouted, “USA! USA!” A number of followers sported American flags, and the songs “God Bless the U.S.A.” by Lee Greenwood and “Pink Houses” by John Mellencamp performed in the course of the night.
The group commemorated 9/11 with a pregame documentary, second of silence and different memorials all through the day.Picture Emily Swanson
Yankees gamers wore FDNY and NYPD caps in remembrance of those that died on 9/11, and earlier within the day, Supervisor Aaron Boone and teammates Gerrit Cole and Carlos Rodón laid a wreath on the 9/11 memorial within the ballpark museum, Monument Park.
A pregame documentary confirmed interviews with Yankees employees and gamers on the group in 2001 and detailed the group’s emotional return to the stadium per week after the assaults.
