Trump can't help but take jab at Mets in speech while praising Braves CEO: 'They lose all the time'

The New York Mets are not harmless anywhere.

Two years aft making the National League Championship Series, the Mets are connected gait to suffer 95 games, which would beryllium their astir since besides losing 95 successful 2003. But this play is overmuch much embarrassing than that.

The Mets came into this play overhauling a roster that choked distant the champion grounds successful the league past summer, which turned successful a league—high $329 cardinal payroll.

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New York Mets' Bo Bichette leaves the tract aft the apical of the seventh inning against the Chicago Cubs successful Chicago connected April 17, 2026. (Erin Hooley/AP)

But it's been each for naught, and the president of the United States has taken notice.

"The Mets person the highest wage successful baseball, and they suffer each the time," President Donald Trump said to a assemblage successful Georgia - astir apt filled with blessed Atlanta Braves fans.

The Los Angeles Dodgers, successful fact, person the astir wealth committed to their roster, but successful presumption of the 2026 payrolls, the Mets are tops successful the league acknowledgment to the Dodgers' deferrals.

Trump made the remark successful praising Braves Development Company CEO Mike Plant, saying the Mets should "maybe bargain this guy."

"You don't recognize however bully helium is. There are teams wherever they ne'er spell down. Then you person different teams, they've been rebuilding for years. I don't privation to notation teams, due to the fact that I cognize each the owners are aged friends of mine, I get myself successful trouble, but they're ever rebuilding. This feline ne'er rebuilds. He conscionable stays astatine the top. He's amazing," Trump said. "And past helium loses the champion player. He loses a large archetypal baseman (Freddie Freeman), I would accidental large archetypal baseman, and they support going on and they get things for the archetypal baseman. And helium was truly good, Dodgers got him. But I watched the Braves for years and they've done specified a large job."

President Donald Trump shakes hands with Braves Development Company President and CEO Mike Plant arsenic helium invites Plant and erstwhile Atlanta Braves manager Brian Snitker connected signifier to talk during an lawsuit astatine Wheeler High School connected July 22, 2026, successful Marietta, Georgia. Trump traveled to Georgia to present remarks connected acquisition and beforehand his administration's precocious launched Trump Accounts program. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

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The Mets payroll is headlined by Juan Soto's record-breaking $765 cardinal declaration implicit 15 years that helium signed successful December 2024. Francisco Lindor is besides making astir $34 million.

The Mets let Pete Alonso and Edwin Diaz locomotion successful escaped bureau portion trading Jeff McNeil and Brandon Nimmo, and brought successful Jorge Polanco, Luis Robert, Bo Bichette, Devin Williams and Luke Weaver. However, contempt the Mets ranking 27th successful batting average, 26th successful runs scored, and 28th successful OPS, portion their rotation has the ninth-worst ERA successful the large leagues.

Polanco is hitting .165 successful an injury-riddled season, and Robert is hitting .211 aft injuries. Bichette is connected gait for the worst play of his career, Semien is hitting .209 with a .606 OPS, and Williams owns a 4.54 ERA (Weaver's 1.98 ERA is simply a lone agleam spot).

(L-R) Juan Soto and Francisco Lindor of the New York Mets look connected during the nationalist anthem anterior to the crippled betwixt the Pittsburgh Pirates and the New York Mets astatine Citi Field connected Thursday, March 26, 2026, successful New York, New York. (Dustin Satloff/MLB Photos via Getty Images)

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New York is said to person conscionable astir everyone disposable successful the commercialized market, but Soto and immoderate young endowment connected the large league roster.

The Mets are 43-60 and are 17.0 games backmost of the Braves successful the NL East.

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