541. Trump’s World Cup Mess and Kushner’s Albania Deal
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Thanks for listening to The Rest Is Politics. To support the podcast, listen without the adverts and get early access to episodes and live show tickets, go to therestispolitics.com. That's therestispolitics.com. There's a lot of worry about the Trumpification of this World Cup. A quarter of the 48 countries taking part are currently facing either travel bans, tight restrictions or high visa rejection rates. For the first time ever, Omar Artan, who's a referee from Somalia, he arrives at the airport and he's refused entry.
And I noticed your great friend Gianni Anfantino, the head of FIFA, didn't use his amazing relationship with Donald Trump to get the Somali in.
There's Infantino saying he doesn't get involved in day-to-day politics and stuff. This is the guy who gave Donald Trump the FIFA Peace Prize. The World Cup is the biggest sports event in the world. But I think this one is going to be horribly political.
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Welcome to the Restless Politics Question Time with me, Rory Stewart.
And me, Alistair Campbell. Rory, we're going to talk about the World Cup. Yay! Starts Thursday. It's going to go on for weeks and weeks and weeks and weeks. We're going to talk about the midterms in the US. We're going to talk about corruption in America. You want to talk about, I know, about Millet and the really interesting development in relation to AI. I'm going to talk about the election in Armenia. And I think my favourite question of the week, Rory, is I've been thinking a lot. is whether we would, if we had another life, whether we'd do politics. So, World Cup. World Cup. I know you're very, very, very excited about this. The question that we have on the World Cup is from Sonny in Lincolnshire. Is this the most political World Cup of all time?
As a World Cup historian, Rory, do you think it's the most political World Cup of all time?
I know what kind of historians do, because I've been watching Dominic Sandbrook on our sister show very carefully.
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