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.

[rgmwa]

A 4:1 win is great result for Belgium. They must have been fired up for the match. Maybe Trump did them a favour in hindsight.

Edited 16 hours ago by rgmwa

[kgwilson]

Trump never admits defeat in anything he is involved with. He will have some comment and blame everyone except himself and then state that if he'd been able to do x y or z they would have won so really even though it was a loss they won anyway (Just like the 2020 election).

[old man emu]

According to some reports the USA team was way of their game. The poor fellow at teh centre of the controversy had a shocker. Despite the loss to Belgium, the tournament still carries yet another taint. One wonders how this worldwide game came to have one of the tournament's sponsors being a country that doesn't seem to be so strongly supported at the profesional level as all those other countries.

[Jerry_Atrick]

Follow the money.. all will be answered