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Donald Trump plans to work on lowering sports ticket prices for fans

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Jesse Cinquini

On the heels of winning the general election, Donald Trump plans to work on lowering sports ticket prices to make them more affordable for fans nationwide.

“The leagues are not taking care of their fans,” said Trump. “They really aren’t. They’re making it impossible.”

The impending president said that he would “work on” the high ticket prices if he won the election, which he seemingly has.

Trump bested the Democratic candidate for president of the United States, Kamala Harris, in Tuesday’s election. Interestingly, Harris is the second female Democratic candidate that Trump has defeated in a presidential race so far in his political career.

In the election back in 2016, he was running against Hillary Clinton, who formerly served as the country’s secretary of state during part of Barack Obama’s stint as the leader of the free world.

Trump’s second term is on the horizon, but he isn’t the president of the United States just yet. The country’s current president — Joe Biden — will be in office until January of next year.

It’s no secret that the cost of attending a sporting event has increased in recent years. Between October of 2022 and October of 2023, sports ticket pricing allegedly rose an excess of 25 percent. Additionally, prices rose by nearly another 21.7 percent between May of 2023 and this year.

The Los Angeles Clippers are playing at a new arena, Intuit Dome, this season, and fans of the team were shocked a few months ago when they were looking at the ticket prices for opening night. Back in August, 100-level seats were ranging from $386.40 all the way up to $577.05, according to Ticketmaster.

Ironically, the Clippers haven’t played well at all in their home arena so far during the 2024-25 regular season. Los Angeles has won just one of its five home games to this point, and that victory came recently over a subpar San Antonio Spurs team on Nov. 4. Norman Powell led the Clippers in scoring with 23 points while shooting 7-of-15 from the floor and 5-of-8 from deep.

Trump wasn’t quite clear on exactly how he would work to lower the price of sports tickets, but if he does, plenty of sports fans would likely be thrilled about that. By the time Trump takes office in January, the NFL and NBA campaigns will still be going strong, though the NFL’s regular season will be over by then.

Jesse Cinquini

Jesse is an aspiring sports journalist that has previously worked as a staff writer at SB Nation’s CelticsBlog and The Knicks Wall.

Published by
Jesse Cinquini

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