Donald Trump will be prominent at FIFA events in the United States, including the 2026 World Cup co-hosted by Canada and Mexico. Repeated public meetings with FIFA president Gianni Infantino and visible appearances at soccer events have established an ongoing presence. Trump displayed a hat reading 'TRUMP WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING' during an Oval Office meeting and announced that the World Cup draw will be held in Washington, DC. The draw's relocation to the Kennedy Center places a major FIFA event in a venue now overseen by Trump, who has installed himself as chair and influenced the institution's operations.
When Donald Trump remained on stage, grinning in the sun as Chelsea lifted the Club World Cup trophy last month, it was all too easy to treat the incident as a one-off mistake. A moment that said plenty about Trump's ego, sure. But ultimately, only a moment. Nope. It's reality. Inescapable. Donald Trump will be everywhere Fifa is in the US, including at the 2026 World Cup due to start in about 10 months, when Canada and Mexico will co-host.
If this much wasn't clear already after that moment at MetLife Stadium and all the other times Trump or his agenda have affected World Cup affairs, it may have become so after Friday's Oval Office appearance with Fifa president Gianni Infantino the eighth reported meeting between the pair since January, and the fifth to take place in public at the White House.
On the fifth of that month, the World Cup draw will take place not at the Las Vegas Sphere as had been widely expected, but at Washington DC's Kennedy Center a historic venue and a worthy place to sort through some ping-pong balls, but also one that is now controlled by Trump, who has installed himself as chair, named himself as host of the institution's annual honors.
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