Trump Invited Himself to Throw Out First Pitch

[rpannier]

"An hour before Dr. Anthony S. Fauci threw the first pitch at the season opener between the New York Yankees and the Washington Nationals, President Trump stood on the briefing room stage at the White House and declared that he, too, had been invited to throw out his own opening pitch,” the New York Times reports.

Said Trump: “Randy Levine is a great friend of mine from the Yankees. And he asked me to throw out the first pitch, and I think I’m doing that on Aug. 15 at Yankee Stadium.”

“There was one problem: Mr. Trump had not actually been invited on that day by the Yankees… His announcement surprised both Yankees officials and the White House staff.”

https://politicalwire.com/2020/07/27/trump-invited-himself-to-throw-out-first-pitch/

This is why you don't invite him to your funeral. He'll try to upstage your corpse

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. As Alice Roosevelt Longworth once said of Theodore:

"He wants to be the bride at every wedding, the corpse at every funeral, and the baby at every christening."

[rpannier]

2. Trump would want to be the whole wedding party

He'd fit right in at the christening, since his behavior is infantile

[marybourg]

8. I think the corpse clause, being somewhat startling, came last, for effect.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. All the quote references I could find had it as in my post.

https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/alice_roosevelt_longworth_115487
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7563985-my-father-theodore-roosevelt-always-wanted-to-be-the-corpse
https://www.supanet.com/find/famous-quotes-by/alice-roosevelt-longworth/my-father-always-wanted-t-fqb72594/

[marybourg]

14. I just looked at the goodreads quote and it had

the corpse clause *first*! So I guess its become pretty squishy. I like the way I heard it best. The corpse is slightly shocking when it comes last.

If I gather up the energy , I’ll look to see if I still have the Eleanor Roosevelt biography where I first saw it. It was said after Theodore upstaged Franklin and Eleanor at their own wedding ( which you probably knew, but it’s a great story for those who didn’t).

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. Since there were no recordings, somebody, maybe Alice herself, just repeated it,

and who knows at this point what was really said? It's pretty funny, regardless.

[kairos12]

21. ...the grifter at every revival.

[stillcool]

3. damn...poor Donald..

the also-ran, the bench-warmer, the water-boy...always the bridesmaid, never the bride.

[Cha]

4. Omg.. It Figures! Sorry I was mad at the Yankees!

[rpannier]

5. Randy Levine needs to find better friends

[sheshe2]

6. Aw shit he lied again?!

Take Me Out to the Ballgame
Steve Goodman ****My Edited version****


Take me out to the ballgame
Take me out to the crowd
We will buy you some peanuts and “hamberders.”
We don't care if You ever get back
So it's root, root, root, for the home team
When you lose it is shame, it's the game
It's one, two, three strikes you're in jail
At the old ballgame

LOCK HIM UP!

[Ohiogal]

7. He must have been so jealous

of Dr. Fauci! What a sick, petty, degenerate he is!

[eppur_se_muova]

10. Stalin used to do something like this ...

He's send a letter congratulating some town on the statue of him they'd recently erected, and promise to come visit in the near future. Well, you can bet they got busy and put up a statue!

Doesn't work if you're a lame-ass disgrace who's about to be tossed out by the voters.

[Grokenstein]

11. Loser. Sad.

[yellowcanine]

12. We can now add lying schmuck to the Trump descriptors.

I would like to see the WH minions defend this.

[StevieM]

13. For any other president this would be a shocking lie to learn they had told.

For Trump it is just another Monday.

[ecstatic]

15. In the middle of a pandemic that his own incompetence helped spread,

this is what he's thinking about. I just don't understand how he still has supporters.

[Dem_in_Nebr.]

17. Pardon a little grave humor but . . .

he's more than welcome to upstage my corpse -- if that means he'll be in the same condition . . .

Just had to say it!

[Lasher]

18. How can there be two first pitches?

I think Trump has by now said he got the offer but declined. It's hard to keep up with his lies.

[MontanaMama]

19. I can hear the MF singing on his golden potty now...

Nobody likes me
Everybody hates me
Guess I’ll go eat worms...

[SergeStorms]

20. Trump doesn't have any "great friends".

He has acquaintances, but no one is foolish enough to count him as a "great friend". Everyone has seen how Trump treats his "great friends", and it usually ends with that "great friend" being thrown under a moving bus.

[rpannier]

22. Grace Pander, Death Race 2000

Movie from 1975.
Grace Pander referred to everyone as her dear friend.
Even people she was meeting for the first time
That's trump's great friends
He knows them and they haven't kicked him down the stairs