Former U.S. President Donald Trump held a phone call with FIFA President Gianni Infantino to discuss a red card issued to a U.S. Men’s National Team player during the Copa América tournament. The call followed the ejection of American forward Tim Weah during a critical group stage match against Panama, a decision that drew significant attention. Trump reportedly shared his perspective on the referee’s ruling with Infantino during the discussion. This direct communication highlights the intersection of political figures and international sports administration as the U.S. prepares to co-host the upcoming 2026 World Cup.
- Former President Donald Trump contacted FIFA President Gianni Infantino to discuss a refereeing decision involving the U.S. Men’s National Team.
- The discussion centered on the red card given to U.S. forward Tim Weah during a Copa América match against Panama.
- The United States team went on to lose the match 2-1 following the early ejection, which contributed to their exit from the tournament.
- Trump reportedly expressed his view that the red card decision was overly harsh during the private conversation.
- The exchange occurred amidst ongoing preparations for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which will be co-hosted by the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
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USA cheaters. like the kid who asks his mother to call the teacher because he has a bad mark. shame on USA: from France. you are disgusting. your silly president knows nothing, also in football !!! proud to beat USA? but the USA team is little little. never heard about them !!! ououououououououo. from France. USA DISGUSTING: Macron will call for our team, ayatollah x will call for his team, and so on !!!
49ers V Rams week 1.
USA is a huge embarrassment. Shameful.
On clips is Trump and his sycophants talking about how to corrupt everything they can touch with a smile. The telling point is that he admits to know absolutely nothing about football and yet he knows better than the referees on the field. Absolutely unacceptable. Take the teams of the World championship right now and go home in protest. Also close down FIFA, it's simply the worst kind of an organization possible under Infantinos leadership. The new Banana republic US of A has become the mother of all corruption in record time and is trying to spread the virus everywhere.
Cheats!
If Belgium win will trump complain to fifa that the game was rigged and try to have the game overturned ?
🙄 the Biased Bull💩Corporation and all the political agenda driven lefties in the comments section who mostly didn't care one bit about the world cup or ,even football in general ,until it became another opportunity to display their TDS derived performative " moral condemnation " of their favourite pantomime bogeyman trying to frame the narrative that " Trump – the all powerful fascist Nazi dictator , whose every demand must be obeyed without exception , has just corrupted the entire tournament and it's ruling body ,by the unprecedented act of directly intervening in the form of a phone call personally asking fifa officials to review and rescind the suspension of a USA team player …. " 😱😱
Meanwhile in actual reality it's a relatively common event for presidents,premiers,prime ministers and assorted years of state to personally make calls doing exactly the same thing…..for instance kia starmer did just that to demand that England's latest match against Mexico wasn't rescheduled at the last minute ….it's pretty normal and never ,up until now , a thing deserving of global news media astroturfing coverage .🙄
it's not an act of corruption or breaking any rules to ask anything you want….it's fifa's responsibility to agree with or deny those requests in the framework of their own rulebook. You know , fifa 😉, literally one of the most infamously corruption riddled and money hungry sports bodies in history?😂
Can't blame trump for doing what he always does , that's his nature, constantly pushing for a better deal because you don't get if you don't ask , and the worst outcome is being told no.
Can't pretend it's a surprise when the ruling fifa Mafia do what they always do either.
信じられない
FIFAは堕落した
誰か苦言を呈する者が出てこないのか
この愚か者はFIFAの
優勝トロフィーまで進呈するだろう
スポーツを愛する世界中の人々を敵に回した
恥を知れ
Ironically, President Trump didn't appoint himself as the referee for the USA-Belgium match. 😆😆😆
Total and utter corruption at the highest level.
Orange-faced Clown: FIFA have to make sure US wins this World Cup due to national security.
Mr president, in 2 years we have made the world hate us… at least we have the world cup to turn opinion around… Trump "hold my orange beer"
He has to stick his nose in everything. Such a busybody. He has no respect for any rules in anything. He is so badly insecure that he wants to be the center of attention every single day and – if the U.S. wins he’ll take credit for that too.
In other news: It’s FOOTBALL, not soccer!
This is of course another devious stunt by the Trump camp.
If America wins, Trump takes all the credit and the Midterms are looming. Trump wouldn’t know how many are in a team, but he’s suddenly an expert. He is a disgusting individual.
Shame and corruption
Trump—a mind of a three-year-old in the body of a senile old man, devoid of the slightest values or character—dragged the US into the mud. The whole world does not respect a country that cheats to secure an easy victory. The world needs to put FIFA in its place by purging it of corrupt individuals, and do the same with the US. It is a disgrace.
Folarin Balogun should choose to sit the game out. The U.S. coach should choose to bench Folarin B.
Hard to root for the U.S. national team, given this situation. Donald T__ has tainted the team. Better to have Folarin not play.
Trump loves the uneducated and lawbreakers….a national disgrace becomes international.
All cheaters love a cheat… if he plays he's a cheating pos.
It was a communist red card!
Cheating and corruption right there with all the world watching and they both just laugh it off in our faces. This world is run by stinking scoundrels.
Trump making America & soccer great again!
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BBC – forgot to say Balogun is BRITISH! and used to play for England up to 2023.
FIFA is disgusting.
What's the difference between a American football player and a English football player both get unfair red cards English player hasn't got the president of the united states of America backing him
Money, greed mind will tell you what is right. Can you imagine this clown is running country of amazing people? What money can is not what money can't.
Complete corruption. Time to turn off the TV as they have even ruined sports for the world.
FIFA knows who butters their bread. Too bad Starmer hadn’t figured that out.
Infantino puts the PUS is pusillanimous.
I am praying Belgium wins
No matter how much money, time and resources have been put in this World Cup by the US, the world will remember this tournament for this infamous, pathetic, dishonest, disgusting, disrespectful and bullying incident.
Complete disgrace America is
How FIFA allowed the Iran team to be treated suggests they don’t care about fairness … plus, FIFA has always been corrupt and they are afraid that the US administration (a vindictive bunch) will investigate their corruption and lock them up or sanction them.
Trump paid the FIFA official off ,well trump maybe that's how you Fix thing but real Americans don't need to fix games with money, losers just like Trump
Do Americans understand sport , obey rules and play like honour means somthing you can never purrchase with your funny money . American football needs sports armour as mindless aggresion means the concept of strength of not breaking your opponent is lost . In world war one at Christmas the Germans and English had a truce to play footbal and the red card was a brown card with a hole in the middle they might of thrown at Trump .
Save World Cup from USA and its Football not Soccer
im wondering how it went down, like did he threaten to sanction the refs home country to 200%??
"You give him a red card and we will revoke your green card"
"Nice place you have, shame if something were to happen to it"
"how much do you want for your 12 year old daughter" im sure they were all possible
So corrupt.