What has Trump done now?

[old man emu]

It gets worserer. The player who was given the red card was what is known as a birthright citizen. He was born to an English couple who were holidaying in the USA. His mother was seven months' pregnant when she wanted to return to England at teh end of the holiday, but the airline declined to carry her due to the risk of an in-flight birth. So they remained in the USA and the player was born on US soil, granting him birthright citizenship. I don't know how he later became a member of the USA team as I don't know anything about his career.

 

Trump's birthright Executive Order has just been thrown out by SCOTUS and Trump is fuming about that. Yet he has the gall to ask (demand?) FIFA organisers to put the red card penalty on hold so that this birthright player can represent the USA in the next round of competition. You've got to have some sympathy for the player being innocently caught up in this blanant act of corruption.

[rgmwa]

It's also bad for the US team. If they lose, they're out and if they win, it will seem that they cheated. The best thing by far would be for player himself to refuse to play on the grounds that the rules are the rules. Then even if they lost he and the team would be heroes, Trump and FIFA would get a poke in the eye, and the world would applaud.

 

[facthunter]

With Trump, It's winner take all and being honest only gets in the way of success. He's a Greedy Grifter.  I hope he gets what he deserves. He certainly occupies the Lie-on's share of the News. . Nev

[Jerry_Atrick]

Well, Belgium won.. So, the USA is out. I feel sorry for the team, because normally I - and I  bet many millions more - are very happy with the result, rather than either ambivalent or even sorry they went out. 

 

No one I have spoken to, including two yanks over here, wanted the USA to win.