A World Cup controversy suddenly became political #shorts

I cannot believe this story.I am about to tell you as a critic of American authoritarianism and as a fan of soccer.One of Donald Trump's worst qualities is that he's a scammer, grifter, con man.And we are in the middle of the World Cup right now.Donald Trump is involved in cheating for the World Cup to try to help the U .S.

men's national team.During the last U .S.game, the top goal scorer for the United States team was given a red card.The player is Flo Baligan.And by the way, Baligan is a U .

S.citizen because of the very birthright citizenship and 14th Amendment that Trump is trying to overturn.And during the game, Flo Baligan got a red card after his foot came down on the ankle of an opponent.The way that soccer rules are, when you get a red card, you immediately have to leave the field and you are not replaced.The rest of that game, Your team is left to play with 10 players rather than 11.It's a big disadvantage.

And then the way it works in the World Cup is if you get a red card, that specific player can't play in the next game.In the next game, your team can have 11.But the particular player that got the red card is not allowed to play.

After this incident, Donald Trump calls his buddy Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA.And he says to Gianni, how about reviewing this red card?How about reviewing this suspension?I don't know about this one.And yesterday, FIFA goes, hey, you know what?We've reviewed it and we have reversed the suspension.

And thanks to that reversal, Flo Baligan can now play today against Belgium.Trump posting about this to Truth Social.He says, quote, Thank you to FIFA for doing what was right and reversing a great injustice.

There has not been such a reversal in 64 years since 19.I don't believe this play was really worthy of a red card.I don't.

However, this is how sports work in soccer.They have V .A .R.video assistant referee and they can use it to check.Should that have been a penalty kick?

And the video can be used to create a call or to debunk a call and to take back a call.And referees can change their decisions or they can confirm them.And that's it.This is part of sports.But this whole idea of after the game is over, going back and revisiting calls, it is a very dangerous precedent.And in the midst of this comes Trump and the naked grift.