US President Donald Trump appears to be like on throughout a press convention at Trump Tower in New York Metropolis, US, September 6, 2024. — Reuters
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump will attend the boys’s ultimate of the US Open tennis championship in New York on Sunday, a White Home official mentioned, marking the newest in a sequence of visits to main sporting occasions.
Trump’s go to, confirmed to AFP on Friday by an official on situation of anonymity, comes after his attendance on the NFL’s Tremendous Bowl in February and the FIFA Membership World Cup championship ultimate in July.
The road up for the match is being selected Friday, with Serbia’s Novak Djokovic dealing with Spain’s Carlos Alcaraz and Italy’s Jannik Sinner up in opposition to Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada within the semi-finals.
It can mark New York-born billionaire Trump’s first look at Flushing Meadows since 2015 — when the then-presidential candidate and spouse Melania had been booed on arrival by the group.
The final sitting president to attend the event — and the primary in historical past to come back to the US Open — was Democrat Invoice Clinton, who watched the ladies’s ultimate in 2000.
Trump was there too and had a cordial assembly with Clinton. Photos from the encounter on the time present the pair smiling, with Clinton’s arm round Melania’s waist.
Trump would go on to develop a bitter enmity with Invoice Clinton and his spouse Hillary, his defeated Democratic rival within the 2016 US presidential election.
Throughout his second time period Trump has attended a sequence of glitzy sporting occasions.
He was booed once more on the FIFA Membership World Cup ultimate in New Jersey however had a hotter reception on the Tremendous Bowl and quite a lot of Final Combating Championship bouts.
Trump says he additionally plans to attend the primary day of golf’s Ryder Cup later this month.
In the meantime he’s additionally hailing the 2026 World Cup — collectively hosted by america, Canada and Mexico — and 2028 Los Angeles Olympics as what he claims is a “Golden Age of America” ushered in by his presidency.
