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Baitball Blogger

(50,500 posts)
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 06:33 AM Jul 15

What is so odd about Trump on stage with the Chelsea players...

Look at the video. If you applied Trump’s anti-DEI policy, there wouldn’t be a winning team and much less a team. Which is a reflection of the results his anti-DEI policies will have, overall.

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BoRaGard

(6,423 posts)
5. to try and make himself feel ok about his shitty self for a few minutes
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 07:33 AM
Jul 15

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)
6. It was the final of an international tournament held in the US
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 08:25 AM
Jul 15

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)
2. The turd stole the official trophy for the Oval Office (presumedly)--blinded by the gold, I guess
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 06:44 AM
Jul 15

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)
7. The trophy the players receive is the original by definition
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 08:26 AM
Jul 15

Don't buy into Trump's bullshit redefinition of words.

Lovie777

(19,378 posts)
3. If this is true...............
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 07:05 AM
Jul 15

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)
4. Presents trophy?
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 07:14 AM
Jul 15

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)
8. To be fair, the racist GOP anti-DEI people always exempt sports, presenting it as the ultimate "merit-based" job
Tue Jul 15, 2025, 08:36 AM
Jul 15

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.

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