202. Is Trump Rigging the World Cup?
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Welcome to The Rest Is Politics U.S. with me, Katty Kay, in balmy London. No, hot London, actually, Anthony. Very hot London. Where are you?
Well, I'm in my house in the Hamptons, but I'm also in the land of Donald Trump, where he's making AI-generated... memes of himself uh getting our players back on the playing field so i know we have a lot to talk about but i was watching his truth social this morning and i'm like this guy is really in another world you know and he's just and everyone around him is like hey no problem just let him do whatever he's doing he's the president of the united states guys i mean you know but go ahead go ahead guys
As well as saying Georgia Maloney needs a restraining order put on her as well. I mean, he's really jumped the shark this weekend. Well, I'm a bit sad because I had a great July the 4th. I went to a super nice small town parade in Maine where there was no politics. Everyone was very cheerful. It was quite moving, actually, Anthony.
I saw the hot dog.
And I ate a hot dog.
I want to confirm for everybody that you did eat the hot dog.
Yes. Well, am I allowed to make a confession since it's just between you and me and no one else is listening? I actually only had one bite and then I gave it to my son and he demolished it in about two seconds.
You know what, by the way, you didn't even have to tell me that, okay? I had the under on the full hot dog, okay? You didn't even have to tell me that, okay? That was like Captain Obvious, Mrs. Obvious.
I loved my July the 4th. The parade in Maine was just the best, and I felt very happy. And now I have to get back to politics and feel a little bit less happy. So here's what we're going to talk about. We are going to talk about the World Cup and FIFA and Donald Trump meddling in everything, including soccer, and his ability to overturn FIFA's ruling on the red card that had been given to an American player. We'll get into that. And then in the second half of the program, we are going to talk about the end of Doge, which by the way, happy July 4th. That was actually the end of Doge. You may have missed it. And a little bit about Mamdani's speech, which I thought was interesting too. So, Antony, first of all, I guess before we get into Donald Trump and the World Cup, we have to say it's coming home, right?
Well done, England. Were you up all night watching? I was on the plane, so I didn't manage to see it, but I wish I had done.
Well, no, I'm on this side of the pond. That was like a primetime game over here. No, that ended around 11 o'clock, but I watched the whole game. And obviously I'm not as familiar with the game as you are, but super impressed with Team England. And I just wrote an op-ed, which I'll share with everybody. Maybe we'll put it in the newsletter about how as Americans, we have a license to root for more than one team or to cheer for more than one team. And, you know, so I would be cheering for the Italians, but they're not in it. They haven't been in it the last three times. So I was wearing an English shirt.
So as an adopted Brit, you're now cheering for England.
Well, yeah, I was wearing the jersey. I took some heat from the Scots like Alistair Campbell, but I was, you know, I feel like England has been very good to me, Caddy K. Okay, so I was wearing the jersey and cheering for them. But Americans, because we're all hyphenated, we can cheer for two teams and get away with it.
Okay, okay.
And by the way, Alistair's writing into our blog saying how upset he is and what a traitor I am. He's not happy.
We are actually going to talk about that in our episode for founding members in our question and answer if you'd like to hear about the beef that Alistair Campbell has with Anthony Scaramucci over the jersey that he was wearing at the England game. You can see that. Okay, so Donald Trump has now been meddling in the World Cup. America's top goalscorer, Follarin Balogun, was sent off during the World Cup match against Bosnia-Herzegovina last week, which means that he would have been suspended for the next game, which is a round of 16 game against Belgium.
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