The Los Angeles Dodgers are indeed headed back to the White House after their second straight World Series win.
The Athletic’s Fabian Ardaya and the California Post’s Jack Harris and Zain Khan report the Dodgers are expected to make the trip despite calls to cancel it in light of the Trump administration’s immigration policies, with the former outlet citing a league source and the latter citing the White House. The Dodgers declined comment to both outlets.
No date is reported to be set, but teams typically visit the White House during their regular-season road series against the Washington Nationals. This year, that series is April 3-5 for the Dodgers.
President Donald Trump posted an invitation to the Dodgers on social media shortly after their dramatic win in Game 7:
“Congratulations to the L.A. Dodgers, a game won by incredible CHAMPIONS!!! A lesser group of men would never have been able to win that game, or game 6, for that matter. So many stars made it all happen. Also, congratulations to ownership. What a great job they have done. SEE YOU ALL AT THE WHITE HOUSE!!!”
Any indication of the team’s plans to accept that offer were slow to come before Wednesday, with Dodgers president Stan Kasten telling the Los Angeles Times last weekend he didn’t have any updates on the matter.
While there was a backlash to attending the Trump White House last year, the team still put on a united front and had no notable holdouts despite past comments and actions, such as Dodgers manager Dave Roberts saying he would have skipped a visit in 2019 and Mookie Betts skipping a visit with the Boston Red Sox after 2018.
Kasten claimed “all” the players wanted to go in 2025, though at least one player wasn’t too enthusiastic. Kiké Hernández, a Puerto Rican fan favorite who has criticized Trump in the past, described it as “kind of a lose-lose situation for me” in comments to radio reporter Dave Vassegh.
Like he did in 2025, Roberts painted a possible trip as respecting the office of the president in comments to the Times last weekend:
“For me, I stand by: I’m a baseball manager,” Roberts told me [the L.A. Times’ Bill Shaikin] Saturday at the Dodgers’ fan festival. “That’s my job.
“I was raised — by a man who served our country for 30 years — to respect the highest office in our country. For me, it doesn’t matter who is in the office, I’m going to go to the White House. I’ve never tried to be political. … For me, I am going to continue to try to do what tradition says and not try to make political statements, because I am not a politician.”
Not everything is the same around the White House this time, though. There was certainly some tension in Los Angeles in 2025 over Trump’s response to the wildfires that ravaged part of the city, but the president’s approval rating has reached a new low recently in the wake of, among other things, ICE’s deadly actions in Minnesota — not to mention its continued presence in Los Angeles and other communities — and lingering questions about the Epstein files.
The Dodgers have apparently still opted to proceed like last year, but it remains to be seen if they present the same united front.
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