Trump attends Yankees game on 9/11 anniversary

NEW YORK -- President Donald Trump is attending the New York Yankees crippled Thursday nighttime to people the 24th day of the Sept. 11 attacks, aft honoring the memories of the victims astatine the Pentagon earlier successful the day.

Trump adjacent stopped by the Yankees' locker country anterior to the crippled against the Detroit Tigers, telling players and unit that the squad has won "every time" that he's travel to games.

"You're gonna win," Trump told the Yankees. "... I privation to privation you guys a batch of luck. You're large players."

He past shook hands with the team's players and staff.

"The information that he's going to beryllium here, it's thing that I'm excited to beryllium a portion of," Boone said earlier the visit.

A statesmanlike sojourn ever prompts other information astatine sporting events, but things were heightened aft blimpish activistic and adjacent Trump state Charlie Kirk was assassinated successful Utah connected Wednesday. When Trump attended the Sept. 11 observance ceremonial astatine the Pentagon earlier Thursday, authorities moved the ceremonial wrong arsenic an added precaution.

Since the attacks, the Yankees and their fans person marked Sept. 11 during the seventh-inning agelong by singing "God Bless America" successful summation to the accepted "Take Me Out to the Ballgame," and they were doing truthful again Thursday.

Even earlier Trump near the White House, information astatine the stadium was tight. Every entranceway featured metallic detectors and Secret Service agents, immoderate with sniffer dogs, portion New York Police Department helicopters thundered overhead.

Stadium authorities opened the gates 3 hours earlier the archetypal pitch, and agelong lines began forming adjacent earlier that. The Yankees said ticketholders were "strongly urged to get arsenic aboriginal arsenic possible."

The Secret Service besides posted a connection saying other clip would beryllium indispensable and asking fans to "consider leaving your bags astatine location to assistance velocity up the information screening process."

Trump's attendance astatine the US Open men's last successful Queens past play sparked agelong information lines. Some fans didn't marque it to their seats until much than an hr into the lucifer contempt organizers delaying its commencement by 30 minutes.

Yankee Stadium authorities installed information solid extracurricular an precocious level suite connected the third-base side, implicit the Tigers dugout. The work level was besides closed astatine 5:30 p.m. for further information sweeps.

The crippled is Trump's eighth large sporting lawsuit since returning to the White House successful January. He attended the Super Bowl successful New Orleans, the Daytona 500, UFC fights successful Miami and Newark, New Jersey, the NCAA wrestling championships successful Philadelphia, the FIFA Club World Cup last successful East Rutherford, New Jersey, and past weekend's U.S. Open match.

His quality marks the 3rd clip a sitting president has visited Yankee Stadium for a game, pursuing George W. Bush successful 2001 and Warren G. Harding, who came successful 1923, the aforesaid twelvemonth the archetypal Yankee Stadium opened.

The Yankee Stadium scoreboard featured a ample MLB logo implicit an American emblem and a red, achromatic and bluish ribbon nether the inscription "September 11, 2001, We Shall Not Forget."

The ample American emblem down the near tract bleachers and the smaller flags for each of baseball's 30 teams that ringing the stadium's precocious level were lowered to half-staff aft Trump issued an enforcement bid honoring Kirk.

Trump was calved successful the New York borough of Queens, and White House property caput Karoline Leavitt said helium "remains a New Yorker astatine heart."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.