The awarding of the Presidential Medal of Freedom is often a proper affair, however President Donald Trump has damaged the mildew, strolling into the ceremony to the driving steel riffs of Metallica’s ‘Enter Sandman.’
Presenting the medal to New York Yankees Corridor of Fame pitcher Mariano Rivera on Monday, the President entered the East Room of the White Home, with ‘Hail to the Chief’ giving approach to the immediately recognizable essential riff of Metallica’s 1991 megahit.
Enter Sandman
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The music alternative was becoming, as ‘Enter Sandman’ would reverberate by way of New York’s Yankee Stadium as Rivera walked onto the sphere to the pitcher’s mound throughout his profession with the ‘Bronx Bombers.’
“Why do they name him the sandman?” Trump mentioned that his spouse Melania requested him earlier than the ceremony. “I mentioned as a result of he put the batter to sleep, proper, the sandman.”
Whereas the selection of tunes was a success with Trump and Rivera’s followers, the anti-Trump crowd had been predictably displeased. “Few moments in stay sports activities had been extra pleasurable than Metallica’s Enter Sandman taking part in as Mariano Rivera got here out from bullpen with 50,000 followers on their toes,” journalist Chuck Modi tweeted. “Now Trump has ruined that too.”
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