New York Times columnist David Brooks claimed he was verbally accosted by a President Trump supporter during a recent baseball game at Nationals Park.
In an op-ed published Tuesday night on how to “engage with fanatics,” Brooks recounted the confrontation.
“First, I was at a Washington Nationals game when a Trump supporter in the row in front of me unleashed a 10-minute profanity-strewn tirade at me, my wife and son,” he said.
Washington Post sports blogger Dan Steinberg noted on Twitter that the alleged altercation would have taken place during a playoff game, according to Brooks’ two-week timeline.
So….at an NLDS game? Someone unleashed a 10-minute profanity-strewn pro-Trump tirade during an NLDS game? https://t.co/mayofhV2Da
— Dan Steinberg (@dcsportsbog) October 24, 2017
Brooks did not respond Tuesday to a request from the Washington Examiner for more details.
Brooks also did not further elaborate on the encounter, other than to say that he “didn’t respond to the Trump guy at the ballgame with all the noble sentiments I’ve put in this column.”
Brooks frequently writes about his everyday encounters with people of different personal backgrounds.
In July, he wrote that he “took a friend with only a high school degree to lunch” and “insensitively” took her to a restaurant that served gourmet sandwiches. He said that she seemed uncomfortable reading the menu so instead took her to a Mexican place instead.
