Seattle Times Seeks Anti-Trump Soccer Fans To Root Against Team USA
The media’s attempts to suck the fun out of the World Cup are not confined to television. They extend to the local papers of the host cities as well. On Thursday, the day before the U.S. defeated Australia in Seattle, Seattle Times reporter Daniel Beekman took it upon himself to highlight certain locals who either refuse to root for Team USA or feel conflicted about the matter because…
PBS Peddles World Cup-Immigration Conspiracy Theory
The latest installment in the media’s attempt to portray President Trump as ruining the ongoing World Cup took place on Wednesday’s Amanpour and Company on PBS. During one segment, host Christiane Amanpour and author Simon Kuper tried to suggest that Trump is the reason why Cape Verde goalkeeper Josimar “Vozinha” Dias’s mother has not been able to acquire a visa, but there are…
MSNOW's Ruhle Asks if World Cup is 'Showing the Worst Part of America'
On the new MS NOW program Money, Power, Politics hosted by Stephanie Ruhle, the host and her panel, including former ESPNer turned podcast host Pablo Torre and David French of The New York Times, attacked the occurrence of the 2026 World Cup in America. Ruhle called the sensation the German X user Freddy and the story of his travels throughout the U.S. a “one-off,” as she…
Oliver Claims He Can't Trust Trump To Point To Civil War's Good Guys
HBO’s John Oliver declared on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight that he has as little faith in the Trump administration’s World Cup visa vetting as he does in Trump’s ability to point out which side were the good guys in the Civil War.
MS NOW’s Noriega Warns of World Cup Unrest, ‘Moment of Great Turmoil’
As the World Cup opened in the U.S. in Los Angeles on Friday, MS NOW’s David Noriega warned of possible political unrest in America amid the start of global soccer tournament. He said the World Cup was a window into “the politics of a host nation and into the geopolitical moment,” which he referred to as the U.S. hosting in “a moment of great turmoil.”
CNN Is Surprised The South Is Welcoming Foreign World Cup Tourists
Over the past couple of days, social media has been filled with foreign tourists marveling over aspects of American culture and hospitality ahead of the World Cup. For CNN sports analyst Christine Brennan, this was a surprising development, especially for tourists visiting the South. On Friday’s edition of The Situation Room, Brennan told hosts Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown that “we…
CNN Casts World Cup as Chaotic After Somali Ref Banned For Terror Ties
As the World Cup is set to begin on Thursday, Wednesday’s CNN This Morning decided to parrot the view of the joint North American-hosted event, with most games played in the U.S., as a “World Cup of chaos,” as labeled by former English soccer star Ian Wright, due to immigration customs and visa enforcement.
The segment’s start focused on a Somalian referee who was barred from…
America Through the Strangers’ Eyes
The World Cup is kicking off here in the United States, and for the next five weeks, a sport most Americans cannot be bothered to watch will bring the rest of the planet to our doorstep. They are already arriving. Germans, Spaniards, Egyptians, Australians, every continent but Antarctica is showing up, and something is happening that ought to make us pause. Their minds are being blown away by…
PBS Previews World Cup By Comparing U.S. To Russia And Qatar
PBS welcomed hard-left professor and former Team USA U-23 player Jules Boykoff to the Tuesday edition of Amanpour and Company to preview the upcoming World Cup. Co-anchor Hari Sreenivasan wasn’t interested in who was going to win but rather in comparing the U.S. under President Trump to previous hosts Russia and Qatar with Boykoff, who claimed the U.S.-hosted tournament is actually…
HA HA? CNN Giggles As It Cuts Out Of Trump's 'FIFA Peace Prize' Honor
Shortly after noon on Friday, at the draw for the 2026 World Cup, President Donald Trump was presented with the first ever "FIFA Peace Prize" by FIFA ( Fédération Internationale de Football Association) President Gianni Infantino, at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. Both CNN and Fox News carried part of it live, but it didn't take long for CNN to dump out of their coverage, once Trump…
CNN Sports Reporter Compares ICE Operations To Russia and Qatar
CNN sports correspondent Don Riddell may have been reporting from snow-covered D.C. on Friday’s The Situation Room, but his hot take about the upcoming World Cup could have thawed the wintry weather. According to Riddell, Trump’s America—specifically, ICE operations—is comparable to human rights abuses in the two previous World Cup hosts of Russia and Qatar.
MSNBC Says US Unfit To Host World Cup and Olympics In Trump Era
In a sports-heavy Monday segment, Washington Post columnist, ESPN commentator, and professor Kevin Blackistone declared on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House that the state of human rights in the United States is so bad, we are unfit to host the World Cup and the Olympics. Additionally, liberal lawyer Marc Elias attacked Major League Baseball for returning its All-Star Game to…
Ex-Al Jazeera Journo Compares Europeans, U.S. Conservatives To Qatar
Qatar may have prepared for the World Cup with slave labor, but MSNBC’s Ayman Mohyeldin used his Saturday show to say that people should be careful when criticizing them because of the existence of the European migrant crisis and conservatives in the U.S. being pro-life, don’t want sexualized curriculum for elementary students.
