President Trump will attend NBA Finals Game 3
Pakinomist’ Kayleigh McEnany reports on President Donald Trump’s plans to attend Game 3 of the NBA Finals in New York City. Trump, a lifelong Knicks fan, was personally invited by NBA commissioner Adam Silver, who expressed excitement about the president’s participation and highlighted shared interests. The segment also notes President Trump’s presence at several major sporting events during his tenure and his plans to host a UFC fight at the White House on June 14.
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There is a lot of talk about whether MLB should adopt a salary cap, and now President Donald Trump is giving his opinion on the matter.
And he is quite firmly in the salary frame camp.
OutKick’s Dan Zaksheske asked the president about MLB’s current situation aboard Air Force One.
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“If you don’t have a salary cap, you don’t have a sport,” Trump said. “They can’t help themselves. In sports, they can’t help themselves. Football has a salary cap.”
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Not only does the NFL have a salary cap, so do the NHL and NBA, leaving MLB as the only one of the four major North American professional sports leagues without one.
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on his way to Chippewa Falls, Wis., on Friday. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images))
“They should have done it a long time ago,” the president said. “I know so much about sports, they should have done it a long time ago.”
Trump then cited his administration’s efforts to pass laws regarding the NIL, something he likened to a salary cap in professional leagues, pointing to major schools losing hundreds of millions of dollars.
“You can’t have that,” he said. “Nobody can afford that.”
The president circled back to baseball.
“Major League Baseball — it’s shocking, frankly, that they didn’t put a cap on years ago,” he said. “They had a chance to make a cap and they blew it.”
MLB players want to raise the salary floor, challenge cheap owners and reshape the salary cap debate before the CBA expires in December 2026. (Justin Edmonds/Getty Images)
MLB and the MLBPA are in the early stages of collective bargaining, and the first suggestion of any kind of salary cap came this week.
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The league proposed a salary cap of $245.3 million for 2027.
This season, the league’s highest opening day payroll belonged to the Los Angeles Dodgers at $415.2 million, while the lowest belonged to the Miami Marlins at $81.8 million.
