Usually, the World Series winning team visits the White House the following summer while playing a road series against either the Nationals or Orioles. The Cubs are doing something different, however: they’re visiting the White House this coming Monday, just before President Obama leaves office.
Back when the Cubs won in early November President Obama, presumably jokingly, asked the Cubs to visit before he left office. He’s a White Sox fan but a Chicago guy and said he was rooting for the Cubs. Despite them being dispersed around the country and the world at their winter homes, vacation spots and hunting cabins, the Cubs have taken him up on the offer.
While this is likely a symbolic high-five to our Chicagoan current president, one wonders how the incoming president feels about it. Especially given that one of the Cubs’ co-owners, Todd Ricketts, is a nominee for deputy commerce secretary for said incoming president.
Gotta say, if I was Trump, I’d be . . . ticked off.
