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We should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive & well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate, bier or wein in hand, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WHOO-HOO, WHAT A RIDE!!!!!!"
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.
GOOD question. Unless you are into the same perversions NOT MY pres drumpf / trump is into why would you want to be with him and his kind? Yes, that is sick and disgusting and someday these people ( drumpf's / trump's-vance's cabinet, his business associates and the gop / guardians of pedophiles-republican party ) will be held accountable, all decent people hope it is soon. FIFA, IT IS TIME FOR GIANNI TO GO.....
Along the raised dais in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where world leaders flanked President Trump to mark the cease-fire deal in Gaza, one man stood out who was neither head of government nor Arab royalty.
Gianni Infantino, the president of global soccer’s governing body, FIFA, was the only sports official at Monday’s summit and the only dignitary without a political role. He posed for photos with President Trump and with President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt. He promised to help reconstruct sports fields destroyed in Gaza and said he traveled to Egypt at Mr. Trump’s invitation.
“It’s something that is really important for FIFA to be here,” Mr. Infantino said on Instagram in a polished highlight video showcasing his interactions with world leaders.
Mr. Infantino has made it his business to be where Mr. Trump is, no matter the agenda of the day. Mr. Infantino gave remarks at a 2020 dinner for business executives hosted by Mr. Trump at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. During the Covid pandemic that year, he traveled to Washington for the signing of the Abraham Accords that established diplomatic ties between Israel and multiple Arab nations. He also secured a prominent seat this year at Mr. Trump’s second inauguration and has appeared in the Oval Office many times since.
Mr. Infantino has been one of Mr. Trump’s biggest boosters since his first term, when the United States secured co-hosting rights to the 2026 World Cup. FIFA opened an office in Trump Tower this year. He has talked up Mr. Trump in glowing terms — last week, he called for him to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in Gaza — and in return has been rewarded with the sort of attention and access that Mr. Trump reserves for his top aides and allies.
The closeness of their relationship has prompted criticism, including from other soccer officials, over whether Mr. Infantino should be forming such a close public bond with one global leader. FIFA has strict rules on political interference in soccer, and FIFA executives and other soccer officials have privately expressed concern about Mr. Infantino’s behavior around Mr. Trump, according to some of the officials. Mr. Trump has called Mr. Infantino “the king of soccer.”
A FIFA spokesman noted that many world leaders were present and that as FIFA president, Mr. Infantino was justified in being there as something of an equal.
FIFA is under pressure to rule on a two-year-old complaint from one of its members, the Palestinian soccer federation, against Israel. The complaint alleges that Israel has broken FIFA regulations, including rules on territoriality by allowing teams from Israeli settlements in the West Bank to play in the Israeli league. Israel has rejected the accusations.
“Infantino has abandoned all pretense of the political neutrality that FIFA espouses and is statutorily committed to uphold, and has put FIFA firmly in the corner of Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu,” said Nick McGeehan, director of the human rights advocacy group FairSquare, which has produced reports critical of FIFA. He described Mr. Infantino’s appearance in Egypt as “deeply troubling.”
A FIFA spokesman did not respond to questions about Mr. McGeehan’s statement.
Mr. Infantino, who traveled to the summit on a Qatar-owned private jet he frequently uses, has brushed aside the criticisms. He has insisted that he needs a close relationship with a host country’s leader to successfully stage the World Cup. He has spent far less time with the leaders of Canada and Mexico, who are co-hosting the tournament.
There is little precedent for sports leaders to align themselves as closely with global leaders as Mr. Infantino has. The president of the International Olympic Committee, Kirsty Coventry, who similarly manages relationships with heads of government, did not attend the summit in Egypt. Mr. Infantino’s predecessor, Sepp Blatter, who was ousted following a corruption scandal in 2015, was never a fixture at political events. Nor was Thomas Bach, whom Ms. Coventry succeeded this year.
Mr. Infantino has grown close to leaders elsewhere who blur the lines between business and government. They include President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, whom rights groups accuse of holding sham elections; Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, which secured hosting rights to the 2034 World Cup without a bidding competition; and Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani of Qatar, which hosted the 2022 World Cup. Qatar provided Mr. Infantino with a villa in Doha before the World Cup there in 2022.
Mr. Infantino has also embraced Trump family members. He broke with convention by allowing Mr. Trump’s daughter Ivanka to participate in the draw for the Club World Cup, a new tournament that was held in the United States this year. Typically, retired players draw names for tournaments.
Mr. Trump has convinced Mr. Infantino to leave two FIFA trophies with him, including a replica of the World Cup that is on display in the Oval Office. Earlier this month, the space reserved for it at FIFA’s museum in Zurich was empty.
Tariq Panja is a global sports correspondent, focusing on stories where money, geopolitics and crime intersect with the sports world.
Stories to get you through the week /September 4, 2019
Christian Moore looked at an 8-year-old classmate crying in a corner. It was the start of the school year in Wichita, Kansas.
Christian wanted to help the second grader, Conner Crites, who has autism and occasionally gets overstimulated.
“Instead of overlooking him like most kids would have, [Christian] just reached over, grabbed his hand and made my son’s day better,” Conner’s mom, April Crites, 29, told the Washington Post last week.
A photo of the moment on August 14, taken by Christian’s mom and shared on Facebook, went viral. “It is an honor to raise such a loving, compassionate child!” Courtney Moore wrote in her post. “He’s a kid with a Big heart, the first day of school started off right.”
The students’ nascent friendship has continued through shared lunches and recess play. The two had a long playdate one weekend day, and Conner has asked if Christian can come by for a sleepover. The lesson of Christian’s kindness, Crites said: Everybody has a choice to help or ignore someone in need. “You could,” she said, “say something nice, hand someone a tissue who’s crying and make their day better.” (Washington Post)
The wheels on the bus...go round and round more efficiently, thanks to an algorithm. This algorithm allowed the fleet of Boston school buses to eliminate 20,000 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions each day—and invest $5 million in savings back into the classroom. Two doctoral students designed the formula, which has enabled the system to remove 50 buses from the road. In 2017, the buses drove 1 million fewer miles. (Popular Mechanics)
One kick leads to another. One minute, soccer champ Carli Lloyd was just goofing around at an NFL training camp. Then she nailed a 55-yard kick. Now, people are asking: Could Lloyd, the two-time Olympic gold medalist and FIFA Women's World Cup champion, become the first woman to play in the NFL? Within hours, a Baltimore Ravens assistant coach was on the phone, Lloyd said: “The coaches and his GM, they all saw the video. They were like, ‘What is she doing next week?’ I’m laughing about it, but the more I think about it, this has the chance to be sort of a pioneering moment for women.” (Washington Post)
A flight that made a difference. Speech pathologist Rachel Romeo found herself on an eight-hour international flight sitting next to a 10-year-old boy with severe nonverbal autism. His dad told Romeo it would be a rough flight, and the boy started shouting and hitting her before takeoff. Romeo put aside her academic work and started making drawings for him. “I made symbols for the things he was grabbing, for his favorite stuffed penguin, and for his dad.” The 10-year-old “took to it very quickly,” she wrote. “By the end of the flight, he had made several requests, initiated several times, & his behaviors had reduced quite a bit. The father was astounded—clearly no one had ever tried [such an] approach with him. I gave him the paper & showed him how to use it, and he nearly cried.” Communication, the MIT postdoctoral fellow wrote, is a human right, “and I was overjoyed to help someone find it.” Thanks to colleague Steve Katz for the story tip. (Twitter)
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Christian Moore, right, holds the hand of Conner Crites, who was crying on the first day of second grade. The classmates in Wichita have been playing together since then. (Courtney Moore)
It was her son’s first day of second grade, and April Crites worried that he would feel overwhelmed.
Conner, 8, was waiting for the doors to open at his school in Wichita on Aug. 14 when he started to cry. His autism sometimes makes him overstimulated, Crites said, and he had gotten away from his personal aide.
While Conner stood alone in a corner crying, his classmate Christian Moore happened to glance over at him.
“Instead of overlooking him like most kids would have, he (Christian) just reached over, grabbed his hand and made my son’s day better,” Crites, 29, said Tuesday in an interview.
Christian’s mom, Courtney, happened to snap a photo of the spontaneous act of kindness. Her son walked Conner inside Minneha Core Knowledge Magnet Elementary School, she wrote in a now-viral Facebook post.
“It is an honor to raise such a loving, compassionate child!” Moore wrote. “He’s a kid with a Big heart, the first day of school started off right.”
When Conner came home that afternoon, Crites said, he told her that he had a great first day. He liked his new friends and his teacher, she said, and he didn’t mention that he had gotten upset at the start of the day. Crites said she didn’t even know about her son’s interaction with Christian until she saw the photo a few days later.
The boys had been in classes together before this year, Crites said, but they didn’t know each other well. Now, she said, they’re inseparable.
Conner and Christian sit together at lunch and play together at recess. Christian went to the Crites’ house last weekend, and the pair played for an hour and a half without an argument — a feat that Crites said is unusual for her son. Conner has been asking his mom when Christian can come spend the night.
The Crites family has been touched by the attention the photo has received, Crites said. Conner gets excited when his classmates tell him they saw his picture on TV. Crites said her husband, who rarely cries, shed a few tears when he saw the photo.
The lesson, Crites said, is to remember that everyone is struggling with something that may be invisible to those around them.
“You could choose to see someone who’s having a really bad day and say something horrible to them and make their day even worse,” Crites said. “Or you could choose the opposite and better route and say something nice, hand someone a tissue who’s crying and make their day better.”
