Day 1,010: Trump plays yet another round of golf in private; afraid to throw first pitch at World Series in public

Donald Trump played golf yet again Saturday, keeping his average of nearly once-every-four-days intact.

Trump played with, among other people, Major League Baseball’s commissioner Rob Manfred.

Part of the round likely included discussion surrounding Trump’s visit to Game 5 of the World Series in Washington on Sunday. Trump is going to break presidential tradition and not throw out the first pitch, in part, because he’s worried he’ll look fat.

Trump mentioned his World Series plan to reporters in the Oval Office on Thursday. But when asked whether he might throw out the first pitch, he said, “I don’t know. They’re going to have to dress me up in a lot of heavy armor,” apparently referring to a bulletproof vest. “I’ll look too heavy. I don’t like that.”

It’s tradition for presidents to take the pitching mound during America’s pastime, but Trump is the first one in over a century to avoid doing so.

Trump is, so far, the only president since William Howard Taft in 1910 not to have thrown a first pitch at a major league game. (The first president known to attend a game was Benjamin Harrison in 1892). Calvin Coolidge, nearly a decade before Roosevelt, was the only other president to attend a World Series game in Washington.

Trump, trying to avoid boos and heckles from the crowd, also plans to arrive after the game begins and leave before it ends.

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