Red Sox players visit Trump at White House despite manager's previous disapproval

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The Boston Red Sox are in Washington, D.C., for a three-game holiday weekend series against the Nationals, and they opted to be VIP tourists during their off day.

The Sox didn't have a game on Thursday, so several players took a trip to the White House to visit President Donald Trump.

Trevor Story, Justin Wilson, Abraham Toro, Romy Gonzalez, Connor Wong, Greg Weissert, Wilyer Abreu, Garrett Whitlock, Brennan Bernardino and Rob Refsnyder all shook hands with Trump in the Oval Office.

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A general view of Fenway Park during a game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Boston Red Sox in Boston on April 4, 2025. (Paul Rutherford-Imagn Images)

"The team toured the White House today as part of their family road trip to D.C.," a team spokesperson said, via MassLive.

Normally, a team visiting the White House to visit the president is saved for celebrating a championship, but apparently, an exception was made.

Red Sox manager Alex Cora has been critical of Trump in the past - so much so, to the point that he opted out of visiting the White House in 2019 to commemorate the team's World Series title from the year prior.

During an interview on "The Mayor's Office" podcast back in January, Cora admitted that 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. 

Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora, #13, looks on against the Tampa Bay Rays during the fifth