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Look at the video. If you applied Trumps anti-DEI policy, there wouldnt be a winning team and much less a team. Which is a reflection of the results his anti-DEI policies will have, overall.

CurtEastPoint
(19,575 posts)BoRaGard
(6,423 posts)he knows what a low-down skunky republicon fascist pedo a-hole he is. Deep down, way below his diaper level.
Prairie Gates
(5,706 posts)It had the benefit of being held at Met Life arena near his NJ golf club, where he's been spending his weekends.
He's also got buddy-buddy with the corrupt head of FIFA, and the World Cup will be held in the US, Canada, and Mexico next year.
Finally, Trump has shown a curious interest in this tournament. A few weeks ago he hosted - for reasons that nobody can quite understand (if you don't know Trump's personal history with Ivana, ahem ahem) - the Juventus team at the Oval Office. He then began saying insane things about Israel-Palestine while the mostly Italian team looked on from behind him bewildered. The two American players looked desperate to fade into the background.
It's a preview. He's going to have his ugly mug all over the World Cup competition next year.
hlthe2b
(110,705 posts)So, the players have to receive a replica.
Ohh, it is too early for me to get so angry at this cretin.
Prairie Gates
(5,706 posts)Don't buy into Trump's bullshit redefinition of words.
Lovie777
(19,378 posts)the world will be highly upset. shithole is totally against D.E.I. and woke, and a racist to boot.
Are we going to become a nation that hides the truth? We are almost there.
Can freedom survive, yes, but it's going to be an uphill journey.
LisaL
(47,280 posts)Doesn't that mean you are supposed to actually give it to the people you are presenting it to, instead of keeping it for yourself?
Prairie Gates
(5,706 posts)In this way, they avoid having to comment on the obvious diversity in sports teams, and even spend a lot of time explaining why sports instead display their version of "race realism." Of course, they miss the point entirely, especially for a sport like soccer. The top level soccer teams (especially in Europe) are so diverse because they have built-in systems for finding talent everywhere, not ruling out any possible source of talent. The systems that require diversity initiatives (i.e., US colleges and occupations) require them precisely because they systematically exclude sources of talent and merit rather than cultivating them. Ironically, this is also the main problem with US soccer, and one of the reasons US soccer - with a population of 300,000,000 - can barely qualify for the World Cup on occasion and is middling compared to much smaller countries. The US youth soccer club system is so expensive that it systematically excludes talent, especially from Latino immigrant populations.