Raised by a New York Yankees fan and married to a supporter of the crosstown Mets, Ivanka Trump let her allegiances be known on Wednesday night.
Raised by a New York Yankees fan and married to a supporter of the crosstown Mets, Ivanka Trump let her allegiances be known as both teams continued their respective playoff runs on Wednesday night.
'OMG! METS,' she wrote on X, repeating the team's abbreviated catch phrase as New York beat the rival Philadelphia Phillies, 4-1, to clinch the divisional series in four games.
Francisco Lindor's sixth-inning grand slam helped move the Mets into their first National League Championship Series since 2015. They're now awaiting the winner of Game 5 of the other NLDS series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres.
The Yankees, meanwhile, hold a 2-1 series lead over the upstart Kansas City Royals following Wednesday's 3-2 victory at Kauffman Stadium. A win on Thursday in Kansas City or Saturday in the Bronx will secure an ALCS berth against the winner of the Detroit Tigers-Cleveland Guardians series. The Tigers a 2-1 lead heading into Game 4 on Thursday in Detroit.
Donald Trump, of course, was a regular face at Yankee Stadium during the Joe Torre era. Not only was he friends with long-time owner George Steinbrenner, but Trump was also tight with his future attorney, mayor Rudy Giuliani, a diehard Yankees supporter.
(Left) Ivanka, Jared and Joseph Kushner are seen at Citi Field in September. (Right) New York Mets players celebrate Wednesday's series-clinching victory over the rival Phillies
On Wednesday, Ivanka celebrated with the Mets by posting the team's adopted catch phrase
But despite her father's ties to the Yankees, Ivanka has leaned towards Queens since marrying Jared Kushner in 2009.
No longer involved with her father's political career, Ivanka joined Jared and their son Joseph at a Mets-Miami Marlins game at Citi Field in August.
Most importantly, Joseph got to meet several Mets stars, including Lindor and left fielder Brandon Nimmo. The family even got to step into the Mets' dugout at one point.
Baseball has been a constant for the Trump family since Donald's childhood in Queens. In fact, Trump previously boasted about his playing days on X: 'I played football and baseball, sorry, but said to be the best bball player in N.Y. State.'
Slate's Leander Schaerlaeckens subsequently uncovered nine box scores from Trump's high school games, during which he went 4 for 29 at the plate.
Trump said his baseball career was derailed when he attended a tryout with 'another young kid named Willie McCovey.' However, the late Hall of Famer and legendary Giants slugger was born in Alabama in 1938 – eight years before Trump was born in Queens – making the claim unlikely to be true.
Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner watch the quarterfinals of the Miami Open
Donald Trump is pictured at old Yankee Stadium with his daughter Ivanka and son Eric
The New Jersey-born Kushner is a Mets fan, as he told New York Magazine in 2006 when he bought The New York Observer for $10 million at age 25. (Kushner sold his stake in the paper to his family's trust in 2017 when he went to work for Donald in the White House, and the Observer is now merely a website)
Ivanka and Kushner also took their sons to a Mets game last August.
And as was the case in 2023, Ivanka made sure to post about the trip on social media. This time the pics included shots of Joseph with Lindor as well as a few pics from the dugout.
Kusher, who describes himself as a 'husband, father' and 'Mets fan' in his Instagram bio, has been busy with real estate projects in the Balkans.
In addition to construction in Belgrade, Serbia, Kusher is hoping to turn a stretch of Albania into a luxury resort.