Mehdi Hasan

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4,624 appearances 9 recordings 7 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 9 Jul

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The Rest Is Politics · 552. Trump's Red Card Saga and Germany's Far-Right Machine · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

The idea that he's back now and that I spend my waking hours and sometimes my non-waking hours thinking about this man, what he's doing next, how he's harming the country and the world is not a good thing.

It's not something I want.

I don't want him to be involved in the World Cup.

I don't want him to be involved in the Olympics.

Sorry, folks.

Just to remind you all, he's also got the Olympics.

you know luckiest man in the world comes back to office and gets the 250th birthday the world cup and the olympics all on his watch kill me now and he's ruining the olympics so the world cup he will ruin the olympics too thankfully the u.s team's out now so he'll pay less interest but he's still going to turn up at the final and as you say the idea you said you know last week you thought he's not involved yet he was always going to get involved but the funny thing is number one he does not watch football he actually says in the press conference

I didn't even know what a red card was, which is classic Trump, but he shouldn't have got one.

And number two, the bragging about the fact that you did this.

There's always been corruption associated with FIFA.

Multiple governments have pressured FIFA and used FIFA.

I just did a series for Zateo called The Dark Side of the World Cup.

We looked at Mussolini in the 1930s, the Videla regime in Argentina in the 1970s.

This is not new.

Corrupt authoritarian governments using FIFA as a fig leaf for sports washing, all of that.

What is new is they never did it out in the open like this.

Trump just is happy to be brazenly, openly authoritarian, crooked, corrupt, whatever word you want to use.

And I think that is the fundamental problem here.

This idea that he can just come along and to go back to Ben's point, say, who cares about the rules?

By the way, one last thing, Alistair.

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