Dodgers celebrate 2024 World Series title at White House: 'An incredible honor'

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79% : Inside a packed East Room and with a live band performing "We Are The Champions," President Donald Trump welcomed the Los Angeles Dodgers to the White House on Monday morning, repeatedly praising the 2024 World Series champions for "some of the most incredible performances ever seen on the baseball diamond." The entire Dodgers traveling party appeared to be in attendance for the last planned celebration of that championship, including Mookie Betts (who declined to attend during Trump's first term in office while with the Boston Red Sox) and Kiké Hernández, who criticized Trump in 2017 and urged the President to "show some humanity" for his response to natural disasters in Hernández's native Puerto Rico.
69% : Four years after the Dodgers' last visit to the White House, and under a different administration than their July 2021 visit with Joe Biden in office, club owner Mark Walter was gracious when invited by Trump to speak.
67% : Two rows of Dodgers players, coaches, front office personnel and executives stood behind Trump as, after a brief preamble over egg prices, the President commended the club's efforts in its second title in five years.
67% : Trump lauded Roberts, who he called "one of the greatest managers, really, ever to wear the Dodger blue.
65% : Clayton Kershaw, who Trump called the club's "heart and soul," spoke on behalf of the players just as he did during the Dodgers' last White House visit.
63% : As Trump rattled off the accolades that Ohtani achieved in his first season with the Dodgers, including the first season in baseball history with 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases, he glanced over to Roberts.
43% : "The scouting report at the start of the series said that the Dodgers could win by focusing on the fundamentals, and that's exactly what they did," Trump said before referencing the Dodgers' five-run comeback in Game 5 of the World Series against the New York Yankees.
43% : " Trump professed his Yankees fandom and longed for a rematch.
41% : "Maybe we'll see the same thing over again," Trump said.
7% : " The group in attendance also included manager Dave Roberts, whose tactics Trump criticized publicly during the 2018 World Series and who hinted in 2019 that he would decline an invite that year if Trump was in office.

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