Former MLB star Johnny Damon reveals discrimination faced for being friends with Trump over the years

Former MLB star Johnny Damon told Fox News Digital about his support for Donald Trump and his highly publicized 2021 DUI arrest in Florida.

EXCLUSIVE: Johnny Damon still remembers when he first met Donald Trump. But just as much, Damon remembers how certain people have treated him for being friends with Trump. 

"Unfortunately, whenever you say you're friends with Donald Trump, we have a lot of people who just can not understand that," Damon told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview. 

The former MLB star met Trump during his time with the New York Yankees, and met him directly through the organization. After Damon left the Boston Red Sox for the Yankees in December 2005, Trump, who was then a New York City businessman and reality TV star, invited the baseball star to play golf in Mar-a-Lago. They were joined by former New York Mets captain David Wright on the green. 

And when Trump found out that Damon was coming to New York to play for the Yankees, a team Trump had been well-connected to over the years, he made a pitch to Damon to move into one of his buildings. But Damon had already moved into a place in the Bloomberg Building. 

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Johnny Damon and Donald Trump attend the "Celebrity Apprentice" red carpet event at Trump Tower on Feb. 3, 2015, in New York City. (D Dipasupil/FilmMagic)

Ten years later, Trump may have gotten his revenge on Damon for not buying a place in his building. In 2015, Damon appeared in the seventh season of "Celebrity Apprentice," where Trump fired Damon in the sixth episode for writing a bad product jingle.

But none of that stopped the two from becoming close friends. For Damon, that friendship blossomed into staunch political support. It