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President Trump's fury over the algae-filled reflecting pool that hates him continues, with our commander-in-chief now threatening 10-year prison sentences for the vandals he claims have messed with his remodeling ambitions.
There is no evidence that anyone has vandalized the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. As my colleague Alex Nguyen writes, the project is the latest in a series of remodeling projects that have gone awry for the president. Like its predecessors, this one is marked by significant overspending, unforeseen snags, and general chaos.
Like other failed beautification projects, the president's ego trip will cost taxpayers millions.
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NOT MY pres drumpf/trump is a disgusting egotistic, narcissistic drippings ( meaning the best part of him ran down something's leg ). The way so much of the world licks his ass is pathetic. This from the Daily Beast.....
Whether he goes ahead with it is down to his discretion...
Harry Thompson
News Reporter
Donald Trump will havethe chance to pretendhe’s won the World Cupin front of billionsof soccer fans, according to a report.
The president, 80, is to be offered the privilege of lifting the tournament’s coveted trophy alongside the winning team on July 19 at the MetLife Center in New Jersey.
It comes after he dropped jaws in the soccer world when he appeared on stage alongside Chelsea FC after they won the Club World Cup last year. He remained with the bemused players as they lifted the trophy while Trump suck-up Gianni Infantino, the FIFA president, beckoned wildly for him to get out of the way.
According to talkSPORT, a repeat is on the cards after FIFA decided he would not be stopped from handing the trophy to the winning captain and might remain in the thick of things as they celebrate.
Sources told the outlet that it would be left up to Trump’s own discretion whether to stay with the team or step aside after presenting the 18-carat gold FIFA World Cup Trophy, which was first lifted in 1974.
It also cited White House insiders who said Trump will opt to pick up the precious prize.
It is protocol for officials, dignitaries, and leaders to step aside as the team lifts the trophy and celebrates its hard work together.
When Trump handed over the trophy to Chelsea captain Reece James following the Club World Cup final, James admitted he was left befuddled by his actions.
“Answering your question, before, they told me that he was going to present the trophy and then exit the stage, and I thought that he was going to exit the stage, but he wanted to stay,” James said previously, according to the Mirror.
Attacking midfielder and star player Cole Palmer felt similarly, saying, “I knew he was going to be here but I didn’t know he was going to be on the stand when we lifted the trophy. I was a bit confused, yes.”
The Daily Beast has contacted the White House and FIFA for comment.
The FIFA Men’s World Cup kicked off today, and we're covering its politics in depth: how the Trump administration tried to block players, support staff, and even a referee from entering the US; how unionized workers staffing Los Angeles’ World Cup stadium won raises and the right to walk out if ICE threatens their safety; and how Trump is leveraging the event, like Vladimir Putin before him, to whitewash an ugly record on the world stage.
In an interview out today, Jules Boykoff, an academic and former soccer pro, talks about FIFA's legacy of sportswashing—which dates back to 1934, when Benito Mussolini used Italy's team at the second-ever World Cup to sell the world on the concept of the new fascist man. The players, Mussolini said, were “soldiers of sport.” They were also soldiers of propaganda.
But Boykoff also speaks to the sport’s power for good: the way it forges interpersonal bonds and builds community: Soccer activists in Oregon, where Boykoff lives, got their women's pro team, the Portland Thorns, to replace leadership that reportedly defendeda coach who abused players.
And my colleague Tim Murphy found a different joy in the World Cup: exploring cultures around the world through food over a three-month journey of attempts to cook a dish from each of the 48 countries competing.
“Spend enough time poking around for recipes,” Tim writes, “and you start to learn a thing or two about tradition, migration, and common bonds.”
Despite the political grandstanding and corporate greed, soccer is for the people. Read our coverage to learn more.
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