IT was just the authoritarian image that Donald Trump hoped to project at the US Open: the president himself, looming from the gigantic scenes of Arthur Ashe Stadium as chairman Mao at Tiananmen Gate, while he was attention for the national anthem. But it was not to be denied that while the photo was there, the sound clashed. The eruption of cheers who went for his stiff greeting on Sunday was quickly drowned out by a choir of angry louder of the Ashe roof that was closed for rain – perhaps appropriate that many fans had been left behind to stand in the wet and tolerate the long safety lines that were the result of his presence. In that uncomfortable five-second moment, while the stars and stripes were unraveled in the middle of the court, the president grinned into the negative reaction. It certainly sounded so familiar.
The presence of Trump at the final of the US Open Men was not only intended as a soft power grab, the type of routine stunt Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-un and the other despot that he admires always pulls with recruitment advertisements that plays in the US. No, the presence of Trump was intended as a distraction. No distraction for him; Lord knows that he couldn’t care about the actual competition, a fact that was strengthened when Trump left his luxury box of chair to step in and Kibitz with a Falanx van Suck. No, Trump’s visit was fell as a flashbang to divert attention from Klaxoning -recession -indicators, rumbling about his health and, of course, those files about that man whose name should not be mentioned.
If Trump was motivated by a patriotic love for tennis, he would have been written down the day before for the women’s finale. But for Trump the prospect to cheer on Jersey Girl Amanda Anisimova and her epic comeback story was clearly not juicy enough, let alone the idea of actually to share The spotlights with an American player. So Sunday’s match between Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz was applied afterwards for Trump’s Calliope Maga-stage. Before the tilt Alcaraz, a Spaniard, was asked to play for the president, and stepped straight into the fall. “For me, who plays for him, I don’t want me to be nervous,” he said, don’t realize that his words would feed soon Fox and friends. “I think it’s great for tennis to have the president in the final.”
Former presidents have shown that you can appear on a US Open without making it over ego: the Obamas were clearly entangled in supporting an American player When they stood against Frances Tiafoe against Alcaraz In the semi -final 2022. Bill Clinton was also proud team USA. In 2000, in his last weeks as president, he broke away from the Un Millennium Summit for the semi -final of Pete Sampras against Lleyton Hewitt, at John Mcenroe in the comment box and signed fans of balls watching him while Secret Service looked at Mensens and held at the upper deck. Clinton also visited Sampras in the dressing room after the loss of Hewitt, which postponed the epic search of the American for an over -group 14th Grand Slam. Clinton returned in 2009 and gave the keynote speech for the induction of Arthur Ashe in the Court of Champions of the US Open. He remembered the triumphs of Ashe about segregation, apartheid and his efforts to open his sport for too little and represented communities.
Trump’s presence on Sunday – under the Ashe Stadium -Selectie framework, on the site that is named after Gender and LGBTQ+ Pioneer Billie Jean King, during a tournament that makes it a point to praise his not – rejecting dedication to diversity, equity and inclusion – not just a clear contrast. It broke from the clearly lower profiles of earlier presidents and was exaggerated, even for a sport that regularly houses royal families. But Trump just couldn’t leave the view. Bode becomes due to a multicultural East Coast-Meming that saves $ 23 cocktails and $ 100 Caviar-dolloped chicken nuggets without irony without irony is red meat that would eager its base. And getting the latter smile would cause satisfactory personal revenge, an urgent theme in the second term.
For 40 years, Trump operated the US open to influence, the attention in itself, his luxury box perch and all the daring names that joined him. But the New York crowd of the heart of the open is never tormented at his faux-golden flash and did not hesitate to gain his pop-ups on a large screen. After the Golden Escalator ride to start his presidential campaign of 2015 and the fiery announcement speech that struck in immigrants and foreigners, he actually became a spectator non-grata in Flushing. Months later he attended the US Open Semi-Final between Venus and Serena Williams and heard more angry as he hit Melania, from the “President’s gate” of the stadium. So it meant something for him on Sunday to be back 10 years later, at the same event that once was the crown jewel of CBS and a walk-in for 60 minutes-now two institutions with which he is determined to get right and back in the birthplace He has repeatedly threatened to invade. That is, if he is not downright explain the war on Chicago.
Before the arrival of Trump in his native Borough or Queens, while foot soldiers of Homeland Security and other federal agencies wipe the US Open Campus, the USTA seemed like it could do more to accommodate him than Rolex CEO Jean-Frederic Dufour-Wie Allegedly the president had invited To the luxury suite of the company in the hope of taking a break at American rates imposed on Switzerland. Trump would undoubtedly have been in the referee’s chair if that was an option. The day before the men’s final, the news broke that the USTA had spent a memo on broadcasters that encouraged them to prevent them from showing no different opinions against Trump in a Craven-display of anticipatory obedience that the federation was justified in a declaration of 11 words. (We thought that the former reality show -guest against unfair adaptation should be …) In the moments Trump actually seemed to pay attention to Sunday’s game, he did not really cheer or Applauding – which is strange but not surprising. After all, he had made the day about himself.
And yet: just when it seemed as if the Usta could not bend lower, intentionally or not, he may have drawn a Canty rope-a-dope. Perhaps aware of the prison of the president for stolen courage, they put the US Open Men’s Trophy in the Rolex box for the arrival of Trump and then switched it for a double cup after the national anthem. Break with his own edict, the USTA not only showed Trump on the big screen again during the switch between the first and second sets, it pushed in and held the shot for 20 seconds. The crowd, this time much larger, fascinated him for so long and lusty that it was difficult not to be reminded of the hard reception of Trump during the 2019 World Series. Later on Sunday the camera was cut into Trump Bugbear Bruce Springsteen – which caused a roar of approval that the Ashe roof almost blew out.
In contrast to FIFA during the final of July Club World Cup, the USTA ensured that Trump’s Rolex Perch became a prison towards the end of the game, so that Alcaraz could keep the tradition of the winner to climb the crowd to embrace their support team. Trump could only look, as a child saw his friends play outside, as someone other than he presented the trophy to Alcaraz – because he, well, he has not tried to take Ivan Lendl and much better men than Trump’s trophies of the former NR. The great presence on the safety that also changed the showcase in an authoritar. For many fans who had already suffered this, his departure was more reason for celebration.
The daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, Alice, once said about her father that “he wants to be the bride at every wedding, the corpse with every funeral and the baby with every baptism.” But the line fits even better. As long as there is attention, you can bet that he will find a way to make himself the center and make a sport of self -condemnation, regardless of who, or what, he can raid during his march.
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