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Terrance Ó Domhnaill's avatar

Trump doesn't care. He enjoys the fear factor this brings across the world. He doesn't care about the lost revenue. Just like he doesn't care about the U.S. economy, unless something directly impacts him personally.

He also doesn't care about the lost reputation of the United States to the rest of the world. All he cares about is putting the fear of Trump into everyone across the world. Which is having the opposite effect but he's too stupid to understand that.

This will blow over, like so many other things, but it will leave a bad taste for FIFA and the U.S. with people all across the world for years to come.

Carole Langston's avatar

The Global Embarrassment continues. Serves them right for sucking up. Doesn't have a grateful cell in his gelatinous body.

Tia's avatar

Gave Trump a made up trophy.

You would think they would protect players and referees.

FIFA bent the knee to Trump and what do they get? Nothing!!

They received no protection for their players or referees!!

Treating them like he treats every other Person, including his family!!

Reldas's avatar

I live just a few blocks from "FIFA Fan Fest" in Houston and it has been a complete disaster for residents ans local businesses. The employees at the coffee shop I walk to are pissed because they have to PAY FIFA to park to work their fucking job. The construction, road closures. All awful. The apartment complex directly across from Fam Fest was accidentally completely blocked off. Residents had no way to exit their parking garage. It was an entire fucking mess for like 6 hours. Police are EVERYWHERE. Just watching us live our lives. Dystopian AF. The absolute fucking worst. I'm so disappointed. I absolutely love football. I have looked forward to every single World Cup for my whole life. It's actually in my hometown, and I cannot imagine how it could be worse.

Sorry I have to vent I cannot imagine "the beautiful game" in a worse way. Ruined it.

James Dennis's avatar

I've looked forward to this for years, not only because I love football, but also because I wanted to welcome the fans from around the world, and have this be a big party. Well, greedy FIFA, greedy USA venues, and our racist MAGA goons have ruined all that.

I had imagined traveling to multiple cities with my adult children and having a fantastic time. But, expensive tickets, price gouging travel and hotel costs, and living in Trump's fascist America ruined that dream.

I'll watch it on television and hope the world will, one day, forgive us for this tragedy. Maybe it will all work out. I hope so.

Jerry Bier's avatar

I know it's been said before, yet I am going to say it again, EVERYTHING TRUMP TOUCHES DIES!

laurie miller's avatar

Including a few of Epsteins little sex slaves it seems.

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Lynn's avatar

That’s quite an accomplishment, to ruin the world’s most revered sporting event. Shameful.

David Bible's avatar

When is a global sporting event not a sporting event? Where the best of the soccer world are celebrated? When it’s held in Trump’s America.

FIFA is completely irresponsible and a threat to soccer players and soccer fans.

No's avatar

How about …. No one attends any game!!!! Would be the right and proper thing to do but as I see it all parties are in it only to gouge as much as money as possible from the fans(?), oops! That should be the “fans” that can afford it! Disgusting thieves!!! They are on a level with dt!

Just saying….my opinion.

Protect the Vote's avatar

Remember Congressional Nazi Republicans(CNR)Are Complicit With Cheeto’s Lawlessness

The CNR continues to be complicit with Cheeto’s corruption by giving him no pushback on his raiding of the Treasury for his own financial gains. The CNR’s have decided to not only give the ultrawealthy individuals and corporations a huge tax break while Americans struggle with daily budgetary strains including the hidden tax called tariffs, they have failed to check the power of the executive through legislative action with Cheeto’s authoritarian blitzkrieg, eliminated farm to school programs hurting the American farmer, and betrayed the confidence of the American electorate. Wait until after the midterms when the medical safety net is largely eliminated with Medicaid cuts leading to millions thrown off their health care and with continued rural hospital closures(https://bit.ly/4ebsaDr). The CNR’s have plans to trim Medicare and Social Security next year, further eliminating the financial safety net while the purchasing power of the dollar falls making American daily life more unaffordable.

That creates an obvious political contradiction. If the deficit is truly a $40T emergency, critics ask, why are Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security described as the problem while tax cuts and new spending initiatives remain on the table? Giviing $70B to ICE to lock up immigrants without due process takes priority over WIC and SNAP programs.

Ethics and morality be damned Full steam ahead. The CNR pushed through poorly qualified cabinet nominations from Kegseth to RFK Jr to Lutnick to McMahon. But now CNR’s are confirming nominations for incompetent federal prosecutors in Wyoming and Los Angeles. Not only has Cheeto abused the pardon power, his CNR’s are confirming or sneaking incompetent prosecutors into federal prosecutor positions. Watch these unqualified Nazi prosecutors go to work to deny and challenge in courts the results of free and fair elections, as has just happened in LA.

But, hey, Nazis like incompetence and giving criminals lack of prosecution in the days of Cheeto’s bought off pardons.

RD's avatar

The US is showcasing its racism and fascist authoritarianism. Will the tyrump dare to show up for any public events after the withering booing he received from New York as he slept through the Knicks NBA game?

laurie miller's avatar

Its a Gangsters Show. Trump has got what he wants for the world cup.

Fear of the gangster, thats all he wants from all of you, FEAR. and he's doing a very good job.

At being a gangster, A gangster who has taken over the entire country.

You couldnt write this story for hollywood, It would have been rejected, Laughed at.

Not now. were standing in it. waist deep. and it looks and smells like were standing in shit,

Some up to their necks. Trump is.

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Who cares's avatar

I was hoping that with the level of murder of thousand of men, women and children and displacement of millions of people in arab countries and Iran the US and Canada and to a lesser degree mexico, directly or indirectly commited. That arabs and muslims will boycott this shit of world cup 2026 in the US, mexico and Canada . I am sure pumpkin head the US président will try and use it to bolster his popularity that has fallen to the lowest point in any presidency before. We will be asked this question in front of Almighty. And that is a shame. So in a second taught, I think these contries and their players deserve the treatement they got. Specially that they knew ahead of time that this is what they promised.

laurie miller's avatar

Gotta say , I think it was all on the cards, Why would you ? Knowing what a dishonest fool the gangster is.

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Tim S.'s avatar

Ahh, the good 'ole red-white-and-blue rolling out the warm, caring, sportsmanship red carpet like the wonderful example we are. How -petty- can we be? FIFA lost -all- credibility with me with their boot-licking 'Peace Prize' for our violent commander-in-chief, and I won't be watching anything FIFA related - checking box-scores after games will be good enough for me. And their ticket scams - makes me wonder if FIFA and Ticketmaster should just -merge- and be done with it? Birds of a feather...

Richard's avatar

Who would even want to come to the US as long as dirty trump is in office? The criminal president and his minions, whose numbers are growing smaller as he ages out and loses his mind will be just a bad memory soon, hopefully.

TheResistanceIsHere1972's avatar

I don’t support fifa as they exploit humans for their gain. Personally if the rest of the world had any ⚽️ they’d have boycotted these games in protest to the tangerine tyrant. But we all know they secretly wish they could do and say the things he does.