Trump offers high praise for Yankees’ Stanton

Maybe they should have asked him about NFL anthem protests. Because President Trump was clearly less opinionated about the Mets and Yankees when asked to pick between the two teams Friday morning than he has been about activist football players.

Trump is also clearly a lot higher on Giancarlo Stanton than he was on Colin Kaepernick or any of the players he referred to as “sons of bitches” last year. Trumpwent so far as to call the Yankees slugger “a player that almost can’t fail.”

Onthe “Bernie and Sid” morning show on WABC 770, Trump, making a rare radio appearance, was quite diplomaticwhen cohost Sid Rosenberg asked himif he had OpeningDay tickets to the two New York baseball teams, which game he would have attended.

“You’re going to get me in a lot of trouble. But I think both teams, because I know even the players, OK, in a lot of cases, because I’m a baseball fan and I like both teams. Randy [Levine] is so great, Wilpons are good people. So don’t put me in that position,” Trump said.

“But I will say this: both of them are exciting. They have some pretty good — and the Yankees what they did with Stanton, that’s going to be, I think that’s going to be a great one. That’s one that almost, famous last words, that’s a player that almost can’t fail. But I guess, you know, people have said that about players before, only to have them bust. But I think he’s going to be great.

“You really do, you’re going to have two exciting teams and I want them both to dowell,” he said. “I hate to be political. See, in the old days, I wouldn’t have answered the question that way. In the old days, I would have told you. But I really like the Wilpons a lot and Randy Levine and the Steinbrenners, these are phenomenal people and so I’ll take a pass. But I really enjoy both teams a lot.”

The interview, cordial and soft, also included stock answers on China, trade and immigration. It taped earlier in the week, so there were no Stormy Daniels questions.

In addition to mushing Stanton and the Yankees, Trump went to his stale bag of tricks and used the air time to again rip the media. He told “Bernie and Sid” he was probably not going to attend the White House Correspondents Dinner for the second straight year.

“I sort of feel the press is so bad, it’s so fake, it’s so made up,” Trump said. “I mean, ‘Sources say,’ and they have no sources. They’re like novelists. I call them novelists. They make up the sources. No, in some cases, there are sources but then they won’t do it correctly either. In many cases, they literally make up sources. You know, ‘Nine sources within the White House have said …’ There are no nine sources.

“So I just think that I want to get it straightened out with the press before I do it,” he said. “So it’s probably pretty unlikely I won’t do it. Last year I had a rally instead, which was great. And the dinner was a massive failure.”