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Trump out-twats himself at the FIFA Club World Cup. How?
Well…it went like this. Chelsea deservedly won the trophy and the players are excitedly gathered to receive the trophy. They can’t wait to celebrate.

Trump presents the trophy with the slaphead FIFA head honcho (it’s quite big). At this point, the trophy should be handed to the team Captain who lifts the thing aloft and the team go bananas. The protocol is that the winning team enjoys this moment with each other. No hangers on, no sponsors, just the team.

But no. Trump lingers and *hangs around* with them, among them, celebrating as if he was one of them. They’re not exactly going to tell him fuck off, but I bet each and every one of those players wanted to.

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  2. The game kicked off 8 minutes late because of the pre match entertainment (Robbie Williams etc).Half time over ran because of the entertainment (Coldplay etc). It doesn’t bode well for next year’s World Cup final which will be played in New York. Apart from that it was a great game and Chelsea were worthy winners.

    • The final will be on the same stadium in New Jersey. Will probably have the same hype man too: “In the blue corner, from Stamford Bridge on The King’s Road in London… Let’s get ready to rumble”*
      Another reason the game started late was the need to sing the U.S. national anthem – in a World final between an English and French team (granted Chelsea are owned by Americans).
      *I’m sure I read somewhere that the boxing M.C. who first said “Let’s get ready to rumble” copyrighted the expression and gets paid for every major public event where it’s used.

  5. This is football now, I’m afraid. A willing propaganda tool available to the highest bidder, giving some of the world’s most evil, dull-witted vulgarians a chance to take the podium and beat their chests in self-celebration. Obviously objectionable to see Trump up there with the Chelsea players too.

    • Come on, guys, give The Donald his due!

      Having joined Stint and Greasie in drawing the fifth round ties for the 1992 Rumsfeld Cup, he’s obviously a big soccerball fan!

  7. I have no interest in football but I read an article yesterday about Infantino in The New World formerly The New European.

    And of course Infantino did it so publicly, because it’s always about him. Always clad in a black suit, tieless and in spotless white tennis shoes, the FIFA president has assiduously turned himself into a brand in his own right. And one who takes his title as president seriously. “I just know him as Jonny and he’s a winner and he’s the president and I’m the president,” said Trump in a video message ahead of the draw for the tournament, to Infantino’s beaming delight.

    Infantino appears to see himself as an equal to actual heads of government. He likes to rub shoulders with heads of state, even the ones with little truck with democracy.

    • Worth remembering on what is yet another “what’s wrong with this Trump f*cker?” thread that when Blatter was in situ we all thought “anyone would be an improvement on this guy”..

    • I’m on my third visit since the new regime took power. The only obvious change I’ve seen is the queues to get into the US at the US / Canada border aren’t just shorter, they’ve gone completely. In the past they could easily involve a 20 to 30 minute wait.

      If anything there are fewer Trump flags being flown, and amongst the few Trump voters I know, there’s a reticence to discuss politics. Twice now, total strangers have heard my accent and apologized for their President. I appreciate it’s different in other locations; we’ve had to issue guidelines on political conversations in the workplace after confrontation levels in our Californian facilities were escalating around the activities of the National Guard and ICE. I hold on to the fact that a great many people here are totally opposed to Trump and it’s prompted a fair few I know to become politically active.

      I met someone last night who knows a gent by the name Donald L Trump. Apparently the US incarnation of DLT has had a hard time here and there and now doesn’t hesitate to make it clear he has no time for his namesake or any of his actions. Beyond me why he hasn’t changed his name to something less controversial, like Epstein or Oswald.

  10. This tournament was a bit of a curtain-raiser for the main event i.e. the FIFA World Cup next summer. USA co-hosting a peaceful, happy event with friends and neighbours Canada and Mexico. Well, that was the plan until DT came along.

      • ..you mean where he does something so absolutely abominable, the CIA will just cart him off to a black prison somewhere (say Azerbaijan) and try and convince us all that he never actually existed?

        • The likelihood of DJT ever being imprisoned seems a desperately remote one at the moment. He could very well stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue screaming at the sky gunning down civilians and the British government would simper and say “Well, the UK has a long and happy relationship with the United States and in this case, Donald was clearly provoked into characteristically decisive and firm action”.

          • The chances of him having an “engineered” fatal heart attack or stroke are not THAT remote, should he be deemed to have Gone Too Far (whatever that is) or be no longer of use to The Project.

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