Trump is avoiding the World Cup because it’s packed with good things he doesn’t like | Barney Ronay

<p>For all its gloss and elitist governance, football will not bend to the will of a president so eager to demonise and exclude</p><p>At 4.38pm on 28 June Donald Trump dropped a Truth. Nothing unusual in that. Trump’s Truth Social feed is relentless and ever-giving.</p><p>That same afternoon he also Truthed at 3.58pm, 3.59pm, and twice at 7.42pm, all in the same instantly recognisable, weirdly cartoonish tone, as if a giant maize-based salted snack from a jaunty 1970s TV advert has been pumped full of voodoo and vitamins and propped up behind a lectern to explain geopolitics to the world, but only in the kind of words you might use while arguing with your nine-year-old sister.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jul/02/donald-trump-world-cup-fifa">Continue reading...</a>