Former MLB star and Yankees World Series hero Johnny Damon recalls hate he received over Donald Trump friendship: Just can not understand that

Johnny Damon still remembers when he first met Donald Trump.But just as much, Damon remembers how certain people have treated him for being friends with Trump. “Unfortunately, whenever you say you’re friends with Donald Trump, we have a lot of people who just can not understand that,” Damon told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview. The former MLB star met Trump during his time with the New York Yankees, and met him directly through the organization.

After Damon left the Boston Red Sox for the Yankees in December 2005, Trump, who was then a New York City businessman and reality TV star, invited the baseball star to play golf in Mar-a-Lago.They were joined by former New York Mets captain David Wright on the green. And when Trump found out that Damon was coming to New York to play for the Yankees, a team Trump had been well-connected to over the years, he made a pitch to Damon to move into one of his buildings.

But Damon had already moved into a place in the Bloomberg Building. Ten years later, Trump may have gotten his revenge on Damon for not buying a place in his building.In 2015, Damon appeared in the seventh season of “Celebrity Apprentice,” where Trump fired Damon in the sixth episode for writing a bad product jingle.But none of that stopped the two from becoming close friends.

For Damon, that friendship blossomed into staunch political support.It was a level of support that Damon had to be prepared to defend himself over.“We’ve just been really good friends, and I’m glad that he’s back in office and I’m glad we have somebody who’s going to be out there, somebody who’s going to answer questions, somebody who’s going to do the work to make America great again,” Damon said. “Unfortunately, this last administration, we can’t see anything positive that they’ve done, and hopefully, Donald Trump doesn’t get any backlash for anything he’s doing because he’s already done more than what President Biden has done in...