President Trump attends Yankees game to mark 9/11 anniversary - ESPN

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump is attending the New York Yankees game Thursday night to mark the 24th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, after honoring the memories of the victims at the Pentagon earlier in the day.

Trump even stopped by the Yankees' locker room prior to the game against the Detroit Tigers, telling players and staff that the team has won «every time» that he's come to games.

«You're gonna win,» Trump told the Yankees. "… I want to wish you guys a lot of luck. You're great players."

He then shook hands with the team's players and staff.

«The fact that he's going to be here, it's something that I'm excited to be a part of,» Boone said before the visit.

Tonight, we join all of Major League Baseball in observing a moment of silence for the victims, survivors, heroes, and all those impacted by the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001. <a href=«https://twitter.com/hashtag/NeverForget?src=hash&ref_src=» https:>#NeverForget

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A presidential visit always prompts extra security at sporting events, but things were heightened after conservative activist and close Trump ally Charlie Kirk was assassinated in Utah on Wednesday. When Trump attended the Sept. 11 observance ceremony at the Pentagon earlier Thursday, authorities moved the ceremony inside as an added precaution.

Since the attacks, the Yankees and their fans have marked Sept. 11 during the seventh-inning stretch by singing «God Bless America» in addition to the traditional «Take Me Out to the Ballgame,» and they were doing so again Thursday.

Even before Trump left the White House, security at the stadium was tight. Every entrance featured metal detectors and Secret Service agents, some with sniffer dogs, while New York