President Trump called FIFA President Gianni Infantino to discuss the red card given to Team USA’s Folarin Balogun during Wednesday night’s game against Bosnia and Herzegovina, an person familiar with the conversation told The Hill. Trump later cheered the reversal, calling it an “injustice.”

FIFA said its independent panel overturned the red card suspension for Monday’s game.

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        I wouldn’t be surprised for a second if he announced %100 tariffs for Belgian beer and chocolate now.

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    Well fuck. I was pulling for USA but with this special treatment I’m not sure I can anymore.

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    He probably doesn’t even watch the soccer. We should really start handing out “Playing Victim” cards to trump every time he whines

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      He admitted that he didn’t know exactly what a red card meant. Even worse, he thought it was unfair that you could be penalized for a game that hadn’t happened yet.

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        lol… We don’t even watch much soccer in Australia, and even the biggest dumbass knows what a red card is

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          I was at the Club World Cup Final outside NYC last year. Don’t Cheeto was there making a scene with Mr FIFA. I’m pretty sure that was the first soccer game he had ever been to. I’m guessing he didn’t attend any of his kids’ games before molesting them.

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    Reminder of the sponsors of this tournament: Edit: Budweiser and Hisense are also sponsors

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    Really funny seeing people sob over the integrity of the sport as if FIFA isn’t actively buying votes to line their pockets and hosting tournaments to sports-wash theocratic slave states (USA included).

    The card system never made sense for international knockout play anyway because one ref with a grudge can, more or less, unilaterally eject a team from the tournament. Almost nobody has the depth to deal with a red card.

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    Funny. The American ambassador in Belgium has claimed trump didn’t and wouldn’t ever do something like that

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      You can keep playing, but as punishment you have to have dinner with the presidents (USA & FIFA).

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    Well, the 2026 world cup is officially as enshittified as Don’s diaper. I had a bad feeling at “hydration breaks”.

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      To be fair, they are the perfect time to take a piss, let the sponsors waste their money with an empty living room.

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      the last world cup worth a shit was back in 2014, i havent watched a single game of international soccer since and have zero regrets

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    Bad calls are part of every sport. It happens. Rules are rules, and if the there is no official instant replay or challenge procedure then the call stands. Rules are fucking rules.

    This is no longer about a bad call. It’s about integrity.

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      Ah yes… FIFA, a paragon of integrity.

      Do you all hear yourselves? FIFA Article 27 exists exclusively to not have this so-called integrity you all are concerned about.

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    Whether the red card was bullshit or not it irrelevant. Sports fans everywhere know that shit calls get made. The issue is that a sitting president called up his buddy who happens to be the president of FIFA and had it overturned. That is fucking insane.