

President Trump met with members of the World Series champion Chicago Cubs in the Oval Office on Wednesday. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

Several members of the 2016 World Series champion Chicago Cubs visited with President Trump at the White House on Wednesday ahead of the third game of a four-game series against the Nationals.

“We’re proud of you guys,” Trump told the group, which included Manager Joe Maddon, first baseman Anthony Rizzo, third baseman Kris Bryant, pitchers Jon Lester and John Lackey and members of the Ricketts family, which owns the Cubs and donated to Trump’s campaign. Rizzo invited Trump to Wednesday or Thursday’s game at Nationals Park.

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“If you want to come, it’s right down the street,” he said.

Cubs co-owner Todd Ricketts, who withdrew his name from consideration as Trump’s deputy commerce secretary in April, offered a playoff prophecy — and perhaps some bulletin board material for the Nationals’ clubhouse — during the visit.

“We’re going to run into these guys in the playoffs and you’ll come down and you’ll see them crumble,” Ricketts said.

MOMENTS AGO: World Series Champion Chicago @Cubs visit the White House. pic.twitter.com/q1YoamX0Vm — Fox News (@FoxNews) June 28, 2017

Todd Ricketts to Trump re Nats: "We're going to see these guys in the playoffs and you'll see them crumble" pic.twitter.com/hQWFxEADr3 — Gordon Wittenmyer (@GDubCub) June 28, 2017

Burn. While the Nationals have never won a playoff series and the Cubs are coming off their first championship in 108 years, that’s mighty presumptuous coming from someone whose team wouldn’t even be in the playoffs if the season ended today.

Earlier in the day, Ricketts’s brother, Tom, posed for a photo with his doppelganger, Sen. Ted Cruz.