Trump Gets Instant Karma with World Cup in Crisis Mode
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How has Donald Trump's involvement impacted World Cup ticket sales?
Donald Trump has turned the World Cup into an absolute disaster when it comes to ticket sales. FIFA is now facing empty seats as 180,000 World Cup tickets hit the resale market. Additionally, FIFA booked tens of thousands. of hotel rooms in cities hosting games like Kansas City where we're seeing cancellations of up to 75% like in Kansas City where the demand is not there. We've seen the World Cup working with Donald Trump engage in heinous visa restrictions against referees and fans and team officials. We've been talking about how the Somalian referee Omar Artan, who's like the top African referee, he was banned from the United States. He flew into the U.S. and he was turned away. I mean, we're talking about like
A world renowned referee simply because he's from Somalia and Donald Trump and the Trump regime are a bunch of racists who hate Somalians. They wouldn't let the Somalian referee into the country. Also, in the past 24 hours, we learned that the Trump regime was. revoked the ticket allocation for the Iranian team, saying that Iran is not allowed to have any tickets to give out to their fans because that would be a violation of U.S. sanctions against Iran and Iran might utilize the tickets. to promote terrorism inside the United States. You've seen how the Trump regime treated the Senegalese, the team from Senegal when they arrived. I mean, the Trump regime gave them basically cavity searches and like read them the riot act and just treated them like absolute crap.
when it came to the Uzbekistan team, when they showed up. We're talking about World Cup-winning coaches and players and world-class players, formerly Italy captain, being searched like they're suspected drug mules simply because they're from Uzbekistan. Now, in the past 24 hours, you had Andrew Giuliani, who is now – he has been heading – All FIFA operations in the United States. He's Rudy Giuliani's kid. He spoke with the Atlantic Council and they were asking him about the decision to deny the Somali referee Omar Artan entry for the United States to be a referee here. And he goes, it was for very good reason. We want to avoid bad actors, basically implying that Omar Artan is like a terrorist.
That's I mean, that's the level of racism we're dealing with here. Here, play this clip.
There's a lot of talk abroad about how the United States blocking the entry of referees from Africa, Iranian coaching staff, national team fans.
What visa restrictions has the Trump administration imposed on World Cup officials?
What are the actual reasons for these measures? And is it a bureaucratic error? Sure. We'll take these one by one. So there's been one referee who has not been admitted. And I can't go into the details. What I can tell you high level is it was for very good reason. I support that decision. I was speaking directly with the secretary of Homeland Security and the commissioner of CBP on Sunday. The days are blending together a couple of days ago on this decision. And it was for very good reason that ultimately this referee did not get in the country. So only one referee, not multiple.
Why was the Somali referee Omar Artan denied entry to the U.S.?
And then when it came to the other officials and managers and press members who have been denied travel to the United States, this is at an unprecedented level. I mean, when we talk about the World Cup in Russia, when we talk about the World Cup in Qatar, they didn't do this stuff. The Trump regime is like next level repressive and authoritarian. Andrew Giuliani was asked about some of the officials, managers, members of the press who were denied from other countries. Here's what he has to say. Play this clip.
We've had 35 teams that have come into the United States. No players, no coaches have been denied. There have been some officials that have been denied, and for good reason. Again, we're striking that balance between making sure that any bad actors that come into the country or try to come into the country under the guise of the World Cup will not get access to the United States of America.
You hear what he says, what, that other countries are shipping in their terrorists with the World Cup team.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
How has Donald Trump's involvement impacted World Cup ticket sales?
0:00–3:04
2
What visa restrictions has the Trump administration imposed on World Cup officials?
3:04–3:43
3
Why was the Somali referee Omar Artan denied entry to the U.S.?
3:43–6:59
4
What recent actions have affected the Iranian football team's participation?
6:59–8:31
5
How did the Trump regime treat the Senegalese team upon arrival?
8:31–11:52
6
What are the implications of FIFA's office lease in Trump Tower?
11:52–16:33