Trump supporter Dion Cini has been kicked out of several baseball stadiums so far this year for unfurling “Trump won” banners at games, now he claims he was told to do so by the former president himself.
In July 2018, Cini hung a “Trump 2020” banner during the eighth inning in a game between the Yankees and the Kansas City Royals. He said that stunt earned him praises from Donald Trump, who reached out to him multiple times since then to thank him and encourage him to continue, Insider reports.
Trump made a post in 2018 thanking him for the stunt.
“After I did Yankee Stadium three years ago, which is Trump’s favorite stadium, he called, and he tweeted, and he Instagrammed, and he said ‘thank you, please don’t stop,'” Cini told Insider. “I’ve interacted with the Trump family multiple times. I’m not directly part of the Trump organization, but they know who I am, they know what I’m doing, and they like it.”
Cini unfurled his first ‘Trump won’ banner this year at Yankee Stadium for the New York Yankees’ game against the Toronto Blue Jays on May 27.
Since then, he unfurled “Trump Won” banners at Citi Field in New York, Fenway Park in Boston, and Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia. Cini was escorted out each time, and his banner was returned.
That was not the case at Fenway Park where security guards confiscated the banner after throwing him out.
Cini and his accomplices haven’t been arrested and on one occasion was protected by police from angry fans.
He plans to continue dropping pro-Trump banners during baseball games and doubts he will ever be barred from any MLB stadium “because I think the people at the top are conservatives.”
According to Insider, the banner has inspired copy cats in Florida and other states during sports games.
