For a long time, my expectations of Donald Trump have been that he will be worse than I think, just never in the way that I think. Say what you will about the man, he is full of surprises.
I assumed he’d make the country dumber, but I didn’t think he’d succeed at nixing the entire Department of Education. I figured he’d do his best to destroy the federal government, but DOGE really came out of left field. (Or should that be the far right field?) And of course I knew he’d raise tariffs, but I had no idea his administration would somehow cause Aiden and Carrie to get back togetherBECAUSE NO ONE WAS ASKING FOR THAT.
This ability to be terrible in new and alarming ways came to mind again when Trump attended the final match in this year’s FIFA Club World Cup—a global men’s soccer competition—last weekend. More specifically, he attended the Club World Cup final, got booed, said he might sign an executive order making Americans call soccer “football,” insisted on joining the winning team onstage to lift their trophy, and then was given his very own special big-boy gold medal.
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