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Dodgers star dodges Trump photo-op after White House visit went awry: report
The White House Is Not a Courtesy StopA Ceremony Built on SubmissionKiké Hernández said he is skipping the Dodgers’ planned White House visit after last year’s experience, when the team spent hours waiting, got lined up, heard a speech, and left. That is the whole point of these pilgrimages: not conversation, not access, but ritualized submission dressed up as honor.Who Actually Held The PowerThe source makes the power structure plain. Trump controls the stage, the timing, the speech, and the symbolism. The players are the props. A championship team is invited into the executive mansion, but…
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