Trump Threatens Removal of World Cup Games from Boston, Olympics from LA

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Donald Trump has again said he'd pressure Fifa to remove 2026 World Cup games from a host city on the basis of that city's politics ...

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Old Senescent is begging for more mordita.

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-10-15 08:13 AM

FIFA is corrupt to the bone for many reasons, but the worst is letting Israeli athletes participate in competition. There will be more riots by angry people in European cities where the Israelis will be playing. IDF targeting of Palestinian athletes began years ago, well before the recent two-year pogrom:

www.newarab.com

www.alestiklal.net

www.aa.com.tr

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-15 08:37 AM

The 2028 Olympics are being held in LA because LA won the bid. Cities make Olympic bids, not countries.

If it's not held in LA it should be cancelled.

#3 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-10-15 01:00 PM

When are most Americans going to understand that they won't be punished if they would just be loyal to Dear Leader?

#4 | Posted by Derek_Wildstar at 2025-10-15 01:39 PM

The real question is what makes him think he has any say in the matter?

#5 | Posted by qcp at 2025-10-15 01:58 PM

Better for the world (and America) to boycott the FIFA 2026 games and 2028 Summer Olympiad which will deny fascist Dummkopf Trumpf and the Trumpf Crime Family (TCF) the enormous pelf from contracts and the vainglorious pomp that will come with the games.

Video of ICE brutality goes viral worldwide and many soccer aficionados outside North America don't want the Israelis to participate.

Why reward fascism and take a chance of being brutalized by ICE thugs in 2026 or 2028?

Boycotting an international spectacle to punish Pariah states like the USSR, Suid-Afrika, or Israel is not unprecedented.

#6 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-15 01:59 PM

TACO, too much money to embezzle.

#7 | Posted by bat4255 at 2025-10-15 02:12 PM

Both the WC and Olympics should withdrawal coming here for those events and specifically blame Orange Adolf for those actions.

#8 | Posted by a_monson at 2025-10-15 03:18 PM

#8, Agree

#9 | Posted by bat4255 at 2025-10-15 03:47 PM

Trump is obviously the Leader of the Fee World!

And you don't even have to pay him off for him to ignore that these localities elected their Officials in free elections.... he's not actually in favor of elections, ya know.

#10 | Posted by Corky at 2025-10-15 04:01 PM

It's sad what Trump and MAGA have done to America.

America used to be a nation that championed freedom, justice and liberty.

Now we're just an incompetent nation of idiots and --------.

We've become a nation where intelligent people are silenced in order to prevent idiots from feeling offended

Donald Trump and MAGA are the worst things to happen to America in my lifetime.

They've set this nation back as far as progress and civil rights and personal freedom by a century.

America was a weak nation before FDR.

Thanks for the efforts of Trump and MAGA we're becoming a weak nation once more.

#11 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-10-15 05:27 PM

Yup

#12 | Posted by bat4255 at 2025-10-15 06:19 PM

I'm sure that folks in FIFA sites Dallas, Houston and Miami will be pleased at the loss of millions in soccer tourism, and that OKC will be delighted to lose softball and whitewater events and the tourism that would otherwise arrive. Stable genius, my eye ...

#13 | Posted by catdog at 2025-10-15 07:42 PM

The real question is what makes him think he has any say in the matter?

#5 | POSTED BY QCP

Money and power.

President Donald Trump and FIFA President Gianni Infantino have been cozying up since Trumpy's first presidency.

During Infantino's most recent appearance at Trump's side in the Oval Office on Aug. 22, he took even some fellow soccer officials by surprise when he gifted a gold replica World Cup trophy to the U.S. president, saying it was "for winners only."

That handover was unexpected, according to one senior soccer official who requested anonymity to discuss sensitive dynamics. Even though it was a replica, the moment was still seen as a snub of World Cup tradition because Trump has held onto a trophy that is supposed to belong to the sport as a whole, not an individual person.

Infantino has framed his close relationship with Trump as "crucial" to the success of the World Cup, a massive operation that relies on expansive cooperation with federal, state and local governments. Trump's suggestion that he could move the host cities was a reminder that Infantino is working with a famously impulsive president whose whims could expose FIFA to logistical havoc and legal jeopardy if he followed through.

#14 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-10-17 11:04 AM

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