Mookie Betts makes decision on Dodgers' White House visit after skipping with Red Sox

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Mookie Betts won his second World Series in October, but this weekend will mark his first time commemorating a World Series victory with President Donald Trump.

Betts won a title with the Boston Red Sox in 2018, the same year he was named American League MVP.

However, he opted to skip the team's celebration at the White House in 2019. 

That will not be the case this year.

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Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts celebrates after winning the 2024 World Series against the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium.  (Wendell Cruz/Imagn Images)

"This is not about me; I don’t want anything to be about me. This is about the Dodgers. Because these boys were there for me," Betts said, via the L.A. Times.

Betts said he regretted not making the trip in 2019, which manager Alex Cora and pitcher David Price also skipped, saying he felt he was a distraction.

"No matter what I say or what I do, people are gonna take it as political. But that’s definitely not what it is. This is about what the Dodgers were able to accomplish last year," he said.

Cora recently admitted he skipped out on meeting Trump because he wanted to prioritize his home country of Puerto Rico. When the Red Sox visited the White House in May 2019, Puerto Rico was still recovering from the destruction of Hurricane Maria in 2017, and Cora wasn't satisfied with the federal government's response. 

Mookie Betts of the Los Angeles Dodgers reacts after hitting an RBI double in the fourth inning of Game 4 of the NLCS against the New York Mets at Citi Field Oct. 17, 2024, in New York, N.Y.  (Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images)

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