President Trump said Wednesday he’s looking forward to the reopening of Yankee Stadium when the coronavirus pandemic recedes.
“I saw baseball’s doing something very unusual. I don’t know if I agree with it — I’d like to see the Yankees play at Yankee Stadium with obviously smaller crowds and then the crowds would start to build as things get to be a little bit better,” Trump told reporters at the White House.
The baseball season’s fate remains in doubt due to the virus that hit New York hardest. As of this week, games are at best likely to begin in July.
But Mayor Bill de Blasio said recently that large gatherings may not be allowed until after August, and that Yankees fans may not return to the stadium soon.
“I think it’s going to be awhile,” the diehard Boston Red Sox fan told CNN. “I think that’s one of the things later in the trajectory.”
Trump said at the White House that he hopes other professional sports team also resume games.
“I hope to see football games and baseball games and basketball,” Trump said. “Now for basketball you’re gonna have to have a little bit of time. I don’t know what they’re going to do. Maybe they’ll be able to play sort of toward the finals.”
Trump was addressing business leaders on plans to reopen the economy after COVID-19 sickened at least 1 million Americans and killed about 60,000.
“We all look at New York, and we see New York and New Jersey, and some of these very high-density places where they’re doing a very good job it’s just, you know, it’s not easy,” Trump said. “But you have areas that are really at a very low point, and really heading, I would say heading south quickly. And that’s what we want.”
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