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USA Today Sports Media Group
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Charles Curtis

Are Cardinals and Rays players imitating the Donald Trump assassination attempt with recent celebrations?

Uh, maybe it’s not the best idea to use an assassination attempt as a celebration?

But it appears that we’ve seen at least two players do something that resembles what we saw over a week ago when there was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump.

As you’ll recall, a bloodied Trump got up up and put up a fist while appearing to say, “Fight, fight.”

Recently, we saw Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Taylor Walls put up a fist and mime “fight, fight,” while members of the St. Louis Cardinals held their ears and pump their fists.

It sure looks like it’s a Trump imitation:

But Cardinals vet Matt Carpenter denied it:

Hmmmm.

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