Trump Ends 109-Year-Old Presidential Tradition (Because he'd never make it over the plate)

[TheBlackAdder]

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"Now This" takes note that Donald Trump will not throw out the first pitch for the 2019 baseball season, breaking a tradition that has lasted over a century.

Jeff Tiedrich
‏ @itsJeffTiedrich
Replying to @realDonaldTrump

mister president sir, at which #OpeningDay game will you be throwing the first pitch? oh that's right, you're the first president in over 100 years not to throw a first pitch because you can't deal with having tens of thousands of people booing the Snowflake In Chief. hashtag sad

Link to tweet

https://crooksandliars.com/2019/03/trump-ends-109-year-old-presidential

Perhaps he's also shitting on American's traditions even more. It's what Putin would want.

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[WhiskeyGrinder]

1. I would be okay with Trump throwing out the first pitch as long as "God Bless America" was banned

from the seventh-inning stretch.

[Ohiogal]

2. They couldn't lure him out to the mound

if they set a bucket of KFC on the mound and he got driven out in a golf cart?

[mainstreetonce]

3. He can't show his face at any public gathering

Except his own rallies

He will never go out in public without hearing boos for the rest of his life.

[watoos]

25. You nailed it,

Trump was a decent baseball player, he doesn't want to get booed out of the stadium. He even played baseball with bone spurs.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. He can't throw 66 feet. The ball wouldn't make it to the plate but would drop into the dust

halfway. And so he won't even try. Other presidents have done it even though they were lousy pitchers because it's tradition and it doesn't matter if they can't throw. But Trump's fragile little ego won't allow that to happen to him. http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/18974934/scouting-presidential-first-pitches

[Poiuyt]

12. That was my guess too. He knows he can't throw it that far.

But that's okay. He's in his 70s and a lot of people that old wouldn't be able to throw it that far. In the past, catchers would walk halfway to the mound and that would be enough to satisfy everyone.

[zentrum]

22. Nailed it.

[Honeycombe8]

26. That's what I think, too He's not physically fit enough to throw more than 2 ft. nt

[SergeStorms]

32. Not that...

he'd keel over from a heart attack walking up the 10 inch rise from the field to the top of the mound. For someone as flabby and out of shape (contrary to what his "doctors" say) he'd never make it up a grade like that without a Sherpa and multiple oxygen tanks.

[TexasBushwhacker]

5. Carter and GWB had good arms n/t

[Poiuyt]

14. But not Bush 41

[TexasBushwhacker]

18. Nope, not GHWB.

Not surprising GWB could throw. If he'd gotten the baseball commisioner job he really wanted, he wouldn't have gone into politics.

[monmouth4]

6. Didn't he win a little trophy thing in military school for baseball? Sad. n/t

[SCantiGOP]

8. I think it was for bowling. n/t

[Ohiogal]

7. For someone who was supposed to be an athlete....

Gerald Ford's throw was pretty lame!

[rufus dog]

35. He played football at Michigan

There are a lot of non skill position players in football that struggle in other sports. Even some receivers struggle. Ford was a lineman so throwing a baseball may have been something he hadn’t done for 40 years.

Obama could shoot a basketball well, still can, but his throws were somewhat mediocre.

Point being, I’m not going to disparage anyone for struggling to throw a decent pitch. It is somewhat of an unnatural motion.

[Sneederbunk]

9. Bonespurs act up in the spring.

[Awsi Dooger]

10. Wimp

Same mindset that scares him away from the correspondent's dinner. He has no problem shoveling fear because it's such a major part of him

[global1]

11. Here's A Really Good Way To Get Back At Trump....

If Trump won't throw out the first pitch - they should ask President Obama to throw out the first pitch in Trump's place.

That would really piss Trump off.

And this way it would be a President doing the job and saving the tradition.

[smirkymonkey]

13. Heh heh!

I like the way you think! That would be an excellent idea!

Watch his orange head explode!

[llmart]

16. They should invite Adam Schiff to throw it.

Or Hillary.

[treestar]

19. If Hillary had been POTUS

I wonder how they'd have handled this? You throw like a girl! (My father thinks it is so funny to say that to a girl).

[Initech]

17. Oh I could see the angry tweets now!

[Hermit-The-Prog]

34. yes!

Either former President Obama, or current, real Pres. Hillary.

[Initech]

15. Trump is so fat and out of shape that he would probably throw like this:

[sheshe2]

29. Bwahahahahahahahahha

[area51]

20. Low-energy Trump.

Mebbe Roseanne will sing before he tries (and fails) to throw the ball:

[keithbvadu2]

21. Well, that's fitting considering that she is a Trumpster.

Well, that's fitting considering that she is a Trumpster.

[defacto7]

23. ahh, he's not really the president anyway.

[LibDemAlways]

24. Trump won't appear before a crowd not made up of MAGATS. He

knows the boos and catcalls would be loud and long, and his ego couldn't take it. He's the consummate wimp.

[klook]

27. He'd have to throw a tennis ball.

A baseball is too big for his widdle baby hands.

[lostnfound]

28. Maybe he should let Putin be his pinch pitcher

The MAGA cult would cheer

[sheshe2]

30. His 'putter' is to small to make it over the base.

An inch or two is my best guess.

[forgotmylogin]

31. Pshaw! McDonald isn't the kind of people who throw a ball.

Plus walking all the way out to the pitcher's mound...he'd need a golf cart...

He's not a healthy 75 year old.

[Historic NY]

33. 350 lb President Taft threw out the very first baseball,

slim and trim Donald should be able to.....

[Buns_of_Fire]

36. New tradition: Eating the first hot dog.

Set up a table-for-one on the pitcher's mound. Have it brought out by Gordon Ramsay, who'll stand over him to make sure he eats it all and doesn't put ketchup on it. Live close-ups on the Jumbotron, including the Presidential Belch afterwards. Time hiim, and compare his score to previous presidents (Rump will have an advantage here, since all he has to do is stuff it in his pouch). Hose him off. Play ball.

For extra thrills, leave him out there when the game starts.