{"id":11702,"date":"2019-11-05T06:45:20","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T11:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/?p=11702"},"modified":"2019-11-05T06:45:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T11:45:23","slug":"kurt-suzuki-puts-on-maga-hat-during-white-house-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/2019\/11\/05\/kurt-suzuki-puts-on-maga-hat-during-white-house-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Suzuki puts on MAGA hat during White House visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/11\/img_6264.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11701\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/11\/img_6264.jpg 800w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/11\/img_6264-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/11\/img_6264-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/11\/img_6264-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/files\/2019\/11\/img_6264-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nationals catcher Kurt Suzuki made headlines on Monday after he wore a Make America Great Again hat during the Nationals visit to the White House.<\/p>\n<p>The move prompted president Donald Trump to call Suzuki up to say a few words.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I love you all. Thank you Mr. President,&#8221; Washington Nationals catcher Kurt Suzuki says, putting on a \u201cMake America Great Again\u201d hat and prompting an awkward hug from Pres. Trump. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/35Zg7cQ9nU\">https:\/\/t.co\/35Zg7cQ9nU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3wmyPJdrAM\">pic.twitter.com\/3wmyPJdrAM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ABC News (@ABC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC\/status\/1191434660217270272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Immediately there was backlash online forcing Suzuki to protect his Twitter account from those looking to state their case on politics. Nationals deliver Sean Doolittle made headlines days earlier after saying he would not visit with Trump due to political differences.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; font-size: 1.154em; caret-color: rgb(118, 125, 132); color: rgb(118, 125, 132); font-family: YahooSans, \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\"><em>\u201cIt was amazing,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/2019\/11\/04\/kurt-suzuki-maga-hat-trump-white-house\/4160151002\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Suzuki told USA Today\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\" data-rapid_p=\"10\" data-v9y=\"1\" style=\"background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 58, 188); text-decoration: none\">Suzuki told USA Today<\/a>&nbsp;via text message. \u201cThat was the president. Just trying to have some fun.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0.8em; font-size: 1.154em; caret-color: rgb(118, 125, 132); color: rgb(118, 125, 132); font-family: YahooSans, \"Helvetica Neue\", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.301961); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\"><em>\u201cEverybody makes everything political. It was about our team winning the World Series.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Suzuki was not alone in being criticized.<\/p>\n<p>Longtime Nationals first basemen &#8211; and current free agent &#8211; had his nickname changed on Wikipedia from &#8220;Mr. National&#8221; to &#8220;Mr. Nationalist&#8221; after presenting Trump with a team jersey and thanking him for &#8220;continuing to make America the greatest country to live in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nationals catcher Kurt Suzuki made headlines on Monday after he wore a Make America Great Again hat during the Nationals visit to the White House. The move prompted president Donald Trump to call Suzuki up to say a few words. I love you all. Thank you Mr. President,&#8221; Washington Nationals catcher Kurt Suzuki says, putting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[499],"tags":[503,583,501,313,20],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-front","9":"tag-kurt-suzuki","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-ryan-zimmerman","12":"tag-washington-nationals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11703,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11702\/revisions\/11703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11702"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}