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As a sports-adverse person, I don't care much about the upcoming World Cup. But I am curious about all the ways that the United States seems to be messing things up for itself, from transportation to ticket sales. Because there's something analogous about all these hiccups and our dwindling standing in the world, no?
Well, today's serving arrives via my colleague Russ Choma, who reports that President Trump's crypto partners are offering World Cup box seats to high-ranking meme coin holders to boost their floundering business. Here's what you get in return:
Perks will include access to a swanky stadium suite, three nights at the St. Regis hotel, chauffeured rides to the stadium, an invitation to a gala, an “elite” afterparty, and “exclusive World Cup nightclub access.” The apparently AI-generated illustration on the website shows a generic stadium, with guests dining and facing away from the game. One figure is wearing a red hat that says “$TRUMP” instead of “MAKE AMERICAN GREAT AGAIN”—a not especially subtle clue about where the Trump presidency is heading.
Not to be forgotten in all of this: Trump has quite the cozy relationship with FIFA president Gianni Infantino. Read more here.
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MAYBE he said pres hegseth because that is who he swallowed for last????? Look at the shape of his mouth in the above picture, he's doing that O for who, pres "hegseth"????? And is he tickling lutnick's wrist in the picture of them shaking hands? This from The Daily Beast.....
Replacing Kristi Noem with Markwayne Mullin is like taking a dump in your pants and then changing your socks.
A MAGA senator got tangled up in a TV interview over who the president is.
Markwayne Mullin was appearing on Fox News, where he tried to lionize Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as the U.S. war with Iran raged.
Hegseth has been one of the most prominent figures in the Trump administration since the war, codenamed Operation Epic Fury, began on Saturday morning.
Mullin kept on referring to Hegseth as the president.Alex Wong/Getty Images
Mullin, 48, is seemingly all for it—so much so that he accidentally referred to the defense secretary as “President Hegseth” as he talked up the Army National Guard veteran’s war-fighting credentials.
“War is ugly, it smells bad, and if anybody’s ever been there and, been able to smell the war that’s happened around you and taste it and fill it in your nostrils and hear it, it’s something that you’ll never forget, and it’s ugly,” he said.
It is not something the senator from Oklahoma will be familiar with, however, having never served, though he did win three professional mixed martial arts fights from 2006 to 2007.
“And fortunately, you have President Hegseth—or I say President Hegseth—Secretary Hegseth, that has got a great relationship with President Trump, and President Hegseth’s been there. He’s done that.”
The Republican’s double slip-up comes just a day after a similar incident, in which the Senate Armed Services Committee member appeared on Fox Business to discuss the war.
That time, though, he forgot who it was the U.S. is supposed to be liberating.
“It’s up to the Iraqi people or, I’m sorry, the Iranian people to choose their next go—their next leader,” he fumbled.
Mullin has been sent out to bat for the administration on live TV multiple times since the war started, and has left a trail of errors in his wake. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images From comments "We know where Markwayne is coming from and it's not just Oklahoma. Hegseth/Mullin ticket is on the way. Was that the national martial arts honors or the YMCA? And also, is he tickling Lutnick's wrist in that picture of the two?
“It’s up to them to rise up and kick this regime out of place,” Mullin continued. “If they do not, then they will be with a different leader, but the same regime.”
He said he hoped Iranians “choose to get a different leader that we can have a relationship with, which we would love to. Prior to 1979, we had a good relationship with Iran.”
The joint U.S. and Israeli strikes killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as well as a number of the top figures Trump says he had identified to replace him.
Speaking to ABC’s Jonathan Karl on Sunday, Trump said, “The attack was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates.
“It’s not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead. Second or third place is dead.”
At a press conference on Monday, self-proclaimed “secretary of war” Hegseth laid out his macho, non-P.C. vision for the U.S. military in its Iran war.
The bullish Hegseth said the conflict was being fought “on our terms, with maximum authorities,” and without America’s “traditional allies, who wring their hands and clutch their pearls, hemming and hawing about the use of force.”
The Trump White House, like many White Houses before it, invites the possibility of death whenever it declares war. But has an administration ever been so naked in its lust for death?
I took some time to think through the ways this administration has talked about its war in Iran. I think the rhetoric boils down to this: Where Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cheers on mass death, the president of the United States shrugs it off. Both approaches are horrifying; they are extensions of long-held American foreign policy, and neither is exactly surprising.
But I have to wonder if we’ve ever encountered a president who answers “I guess” to the prospect of a future 9/11-style terrorist attack because of a war he unilaterally launched. You can read my thoughts on what such an answer reveals and why I’m stunned here.
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