President Donald Trump met with athletes and trainers out of 22 collegiate, national championship clubs. White House spokesman Judd Deere stated the Columbia fencers’ trip with Trump was and White House personnel extended an invitation for trainer and those athletes to return into the White House to go over.
However, Gout stated a Trump aide advised the athletes which they were not able to deliver the letter together at the East Room of the White House throughout their meeting with Trump. The letter said it represented the perspectives of those four signatories, fencers who graduated this season and collaborated with the 2019 tournament team, rather than Columbia University and also the group.
Many athletes, such as Sean Doolittle in the World Series winner Washington Nationals and members of this World Cup-winning women’s national football club, have diminished the White House invitations. Others, such as the Philadelphia Eagles of the NFL and the NBA’s Golden State Warriors, are disinvited after the president was criticized by gamers. Trump has been embraced by others.
Elise Gout, a part of Columbia University’s 2019 championship fencing group, stated she and all her teammates had expected to introduce Trump together using the letter asserting that Trump has”perpetuated a civilization which conditions for girls and minority sex identities should become hushed — to forfeit the distance they’ve every right to carry up” White House visits to pro sports teams and winner college have come to be events throughout the presidency of Trump, also the collecting of Friday was different.
Friday trump spent a couple of minutes, but he lingered a bit more with Stanford University’s men’s golf club. He encouraged the champs to take a peek. The Columbia athletes’ correspondence criticized the government for suggesting adjustments to Federal principles which would impact campus sexual assault survivors and also for implementing new regulations that prohibit groups that get federal grants.