The strong image of Trump had huts in the United States, and it was perhaps the point | US Open Tennis 2025
IIt was just the authoritarian image that Donald Trump hoped to project to the US Open: the president himself, an imminent giant screens of the Arthur Ashe stadium as President Mao in Tiananmen Gate, while he was for the attention of the national anthem. But we cannot deny that, while the image was there, the sound clashed. The acclamation sparkle that showed its stiff salvation on Sunday was quickly drowned by a choir of hoots made stronger from the ashe -closed ashe roofs – perhaps adjusted since many fans had been left to stand in the wet and endure the long security lines resulting from its presence. At this clumsy moment of five seconds, while the stars and scratches were deployed in the central court, the president smiled at the negative reaction. It certainly sounded so familiar.
The presence of Trump in the final of the United States Open Men was not only supposed to be a soft power, the kind of Vladimir Putin routine stuntman, Kim Jong-un and the other despots he admires to shoot all the time during sporting events-except with recruitment advertisements through the United States. No, Trump’s presence was intended for distraction. Not distraction. for him; The Lord knows, he could not worry about the real match, a fact that was reinforced when Trump left his luxury box headquarters to enter and Kibitz with a hillock phalanx. No, Trump’s visit was abandoned as a flash stroke to divert the attention of horn’s recession indicators, rumbled speculation on his health and, of course, these files on this type whose name should not be mentioned.
If Trump was motivated by a patriotic love for tennis, he would have rocked a day earlier for the female final. But for Trump, the prospect of encouraging the daughter of Jersey Amanda Anisimova and her story of epic return was clearly not juicy enough, even less the idea of really sharing The spotlight with an American player. So, Sunday’s match between Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz was modernized for the Calliope Magi scene of Trump. Before Tilt Alcaraz, a Spaniard, was questioned about the game in front of the president, and entered the trap directly. “For me, playing in front of him, I don’t want me to be nervous,” he said, not realizing that his words would soon become fodder for the 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 at a US Open without doing the ego: the Obamas were clearly taken care of to support an American player when they watched Frances Tiafoe Battle Alcaraz in the 2022 semi-finals. Bill Clinton was proudly the American team too. In 2000, in his last weeks as president, he separated from the United Nations Millennium summit for the semi-final of Pete Sampras against Lleyton Hewitt, joining John McENROE in the comments box and that fans of signature bullets launched him while the Minders looked at each other and the rod shooters aligned the upper bridge of the stadium. Clinton also visited Sampras in the locker room after the defeat against Hewitt, who postponed the epic quest for the American for a 14th Grand Slam of the time. In 2009, Clinton returned and delivered the opening speech of Arthur Ashe’s enthronement to the US Open Champions Court. He remembered the triumphs of Ashe on segregation, apartheid and his efforts to open his sport to subressource and represented communities.
The presence of Trump on Sunday – under the mark of the Ashe stadium, for reasons named for the gender and the pioneer LGBTQ + Billie Jean King, during a tournament which wishes to boast his unwavering commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion – did not simply struggle a marked contrast. He burst out of the most low -low profiles from the former presidents and was exaggerated, even for a sport that regularly welcomes royal families. But Trump just couldn’t let the optics pass. Being hook by a multicultural crowd of the East Coast which dates back to $ 23 of cocktails and $ 100 in chicken chicken chips without irony is the red meat that its base will devour. And get the latter laughter would make a satisfactory personal revenge, an urgent theme of the second mandate.
For 40 years, Trump has exploited the United States open for clout, attracting attention to himself, his luxury pole and all the daring names that joined him inside. But New York’s crowd – Open’s heart – has never been cotton to its false flash -or and did not hesitate to make fun of its large screen pop -ups. After the leave of Escalatator Golden to launch its 2015 presidential campaign and the ardent announcement speech on immigrants and foreigners, he indeed became the non-Grata spectator in Flushing. Months later, he attended the United States semi-final between Venus and Serena Williams and heard more hoots when he walked away with Melania, outside the “gate” of the stadium president. It therefore meant something for him on Sunday to be back 10 years later, during the same event which was formerly the jewel of the CBS Crown and an entry for 60 minutes – two other institutions with which he is determined to obtain – and back in the hometown he threatened several times to invade. In other words, when he does not declare the war in Chicago squarely.
Before the arrival of Trump in his native district of Queens, while the soldiers of internal security and other federal agencies swept the open campus of the United States, the USTA seemed to be more to welcome him than the CEO of Rolex, Jean-Frederic Dufour-who would have invited the president following the luxury of the company in the hopes of taking a break in the American rates imposed on Switzer’s following. Without a doubt, Trump would be sitting on the referee’s chair if it was an option. The day before the men’s final, the news announced that the USTA had published a note to the broadcasters exhorting them to avoid showing any dissent against Trump in a demonstration of anticipatory obedience that the loose federation justified in a declaration of 11 words. (We thought that the former reality TV host was supposed to be against the unfair edition …) In times, Trump seemed to pay attention to the Sunday match, he did not really applaud or applauded – which is weird but not surprising. He had done the day on himself, after all.
And yet: just when it seemed that the USTA could not bow lower, intentionally or not, it may have succeeded in an aviated rope. Perhaps aware of the greed of the president for the stolen value, they put the American trophy of open men inside the Rolex box for the arrival of Trump, then changed it for a cup of double after the anthem. Breaking with his own edict, the USTA not only shown Trump on the big screen again during the change between the first and second sets, he pushed and maintained the shot for 20 seconds. The crowd, much larger this time, hooked her so long and vigorously that it was difficult not to remember the hard duration in Trump in the 2019 World Series. Later Sunday, the camera was cut to Trump Bugbear Bruce Springsteen, triggering a roar of approval that almost caused the Ashe roof.
Unlike FIFA in the July Cup World Cup final, the USTA assured that Rolex Perch of Trump became a prison at the end of the match, so that Alcaraz could maintain the winner’s tradition to climb the crowd to kiss their support team. Trump could only look, like a child in punishment when he saw his friends playing outside, like someone other than him presented the trophy in Alcaraz – because, well, he is not a competition for Ivan Lendl and much better men that Trump tried to take trophies from former n ° 1. After the Pomp and the circumstances, Trump has disappeared – report on the house. The presence of excessive security which transformed the Sunday showcase into a authoritarian show has also disappeared in its wake. For many fans who had suffered from all this, his departure was more reason for celebration.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s daughter Alice said one day about his father that “he wanted to be the bride at each marriage, the corpse with each funeral and the baby with each baptism”. But the line corresponds even better to Trump. As long as there is any attention to having, you can bet that it will find a way to be the center and to play self-agrandiating, no matter who, or what, it can trample during its walking.
