Trump's America Compared to Russia and Qatar As World Cup Kicks Off
“There is something of a stench I think around this World Cup. In the same way as we had in Russia in 2018 and in Qatar in 2022," a foreign correspondent said of the 2026 World Cup in Trump's U.S.
It turns out that the man who said of FIFA World Cup host cities that weren’t welcoming of his ICE thugs inciting violence, “They're run by radical left lunatics and that don't know what they're doing,” hasn’t been great for the global sport event.
The organization that awarded the President who started a war based on a huge lie a participation trophy “peace prize” is now running into problems created by an unwelcoming American president and a fear of his ICE thugs.
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Things have been so unpleasant and unstable (aka, the TACO Doctrine) in the lead up to the events that hosts on “Trump 100” in DC for Sky News declared Donald Trump’s America is ruining the World Cup party.
While comparing the U.S. to Russia and Qatar, they asked if Trump’s America is ruining the world’s biggest sport event altogether.
“Players, coaches, referees, all struggling to get into the country and a mass shooting near the England team’s training base. This is America’s World Cup. Yeah, quite a buildup to the biggest show on earth,” Irish correspondent David Blevins said in the lead up to the event.
Imagine that! America’s unregulated gun fetish doesn’t look so good from the vantage point of other countries. They’re (rightfully) shook about a mass shooting that injured nine people, which occurred about four miles from where England’s team were set to train. If only our own lawmakers were as concerned about human life.
They then compared the World Cup in the U.S. to games held in Russia and Qatar.
“There is something of a stench I think around this World Cup. In the same way as we had in Russia in 2018 and in Qatar in 2022, controversy certainly both had issue around LGBTQ rights and you know in Russia there was the illegal annexation of Crimea a few years before the competition,” co-host James Matthews said. “In Qatar, there were the poor conditions for migrant workers. So that was then, this is now. But I think the controversy hovers around a few things, but at the center of it, one man, Donald Trump, and his politics.”
“Yes, it hasn’t exactly been the warmest of welcomes for teams and players who have been arriving in the United States,” David Blevins agreed.
Ironically and rather blindly, FIFA’s President Gianni Infantino claimed politics should stay out of sports, but then wore a MAGA cap, joined Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace” and handed Trump a meaningless, made-up “FIFA Peace Prize”.
Nothing says staying out of politics like whitewashing Trump’s violent aggression against human rights by giving him a peace prize as a risk mitigation strategy for the business benefit of your sporting organization.
This was all predictable.
