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USDemocrats grapple uncomfortably with World Cup success - A logistically smooth tournament poses a problem for Trump’s critics.
Lead Art: California Gov. Gavin Newsom attends the FIFA World Cup 2026 Group D match between the U.S. and Paraguay at Los Angeles Stadium on June 12, 2026, in Inglewood, California. | Jamie Squire/Getty Images
The triumph of the World Cup’s first two weeks — boosting the U.S.’s global reputation with sold-out stadiums and few logistical complications — has forced Democrats who had criticized President Donald Trump’s role in preparations to grudgingly reconsider.
“I think that there was a little bit of like liberal wishcasting that this would maybe be a disaster to sort of stick it to Trump,” said Rob Flaherty, the digital Democratic strategist and soccer fan who attended the U.S. group-stage match with Australia. “It hasn’t yet been.”
Before the tournament, attitudes about the World Cup were polarizing, like so much else, along partisan lines, with Democrats confronting FIFA and the Trump administration over high ticket prices, shortfalls in public funding, and the government’s posture to foreign visitors. As the tournament approached, local officials in areas hosting matches, including New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill, turned from critics to cheerleaders.
Now a prominent congressional Democrat is going even farther: praising the U.S.’s handling of tournament logistics — if not giving the Trump administration explicit credit by name.
This week, Rep. Brendan Boyle, a Philadelphia Democrat active in foreign-policy issues, called it a “remarkable success” and vowed to “do everything I can to get the World Cup back here as soon as possible” in an X post.
In an interview with POLITICO Thursday, Boyle said, “this has been a great moment, actually devoid of politics, and I think it would be best to keep politics out of it.”
“I’m excited about the U.S. hosting the World Cup, how well that it has gone, how receptive these foreign fan bases have been to finding out more about the United States and interacting with ordinary Americans,” Boyle continued.
Boyle’s enthusiasm places him in rare territory. Though other prominent Democrats including California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, along with Mamdani and Sherrill, have all attended games, few among them have been willing to articulate anything that sounds like praise for the authorities putting on the event.
“Let me be clear, my comments are irrespective of the Trump administration. Frankly, his immigration policies for the last year and a half did scare some people off from coming to the United States,” said Boyle. “The credit goes to the local host committees.”
*Anglo immigration. While the germans, irish and so on have assimilated into the anglo majority, when they first arrived they presented similar problems to the illegals we have today. The germans in 1848 were commies, The Irish swamped cities with their sheer numbers causing damage to the social fabric.
Luckily we had the frontier to throw them into so they wouldn't cause too much problem long term.
On one hand i doubt Trump had much direct involvement with the logistics of getting the world cup going, on the other hand Dems truly are miserable fucks who are angry when they dont have something to bitch about.
Doubly so for the World Cup since it both went well, and has proven to many Europeans that the States are actually pretty cool
Probably more so Trump's lack of involvement and just letting shit run vs the Dem's serial addiction of micromanaging and fucking with everything they can.
*Anglo immigration. While the germans, irish and so on have assimilated into the anglo majority, when they first arrived they presented similar problems to the illegals we have today. The germans in 1848 were commies, The Irish swamped cities with their sheer numbers causing damage to the social fabric.
Luckily we had the frontier to throw them into so they wouldn't cause too much problem long term.
Every one of these people was, at their hollow core, a scumbag who derived pleasure from seeing others hurt and who sought to drag everyone else down to their own subterranean level (indeed, fantasized about how everyone else MUST really be as empty and vile as they were deep down - because it's easier to be evil when you assume it's natural & everyone else is really just as bad but you're more enlightened because you don't hide it under the pretense of morality or something, I guess - from De Sade to the French postmodernists). If we ever make it out of this clusterfuck sometime later this century, I think future generations will be right & just to look back on the 19th-21st centuries and wonder what the fuck was wrong with their ancestors, that they ever took seriously the worthless scribblings & ravings of all those blatant demons wearing human skin.
In an interview with POLITICO Thursday, Boyle said, “this has been a great moment, actually devoid of politics, and I think it would be best to keep politics out of it.”
Wow you fucking think wow incredible imagine wow how much fucking better do you think NFL and NASCAR could be today if you stopped putting fag parades in superbowls kneeling for dead niggers and fining racers for the tiniest of meaniepants words wow fucking wow incredible wow wow
Olympics will be a shitshow in comparison, and that will really make leftists seethe as the Olympics is mostly being handled by the Democrats in Los Angeles.
Maybe they can direct their Antifa fuckhead foot soldiers to start some riots or something.
These absolute vermin will shit up national monuments out of spite, why not act like their normal retarded selves at various soccer matches by protesting for Palirats?
The United States was officially announced as a co-host of the 2026 FIFA World Cup on June 13, 2018, when the joint "United Bid" with Canada and Mexico was selected at the FIFA Congress in Moscow. [1]
During Obama. What does this have to do with Trump? Doesn't FIFA handle all the logistics?
Olympics will be a shitshow in comparison, and that will really make leftists seethe as the Olympics is mostly being handled by the Democrats in Los Angeles.
Consider that this is an international movement of people and items there is at least some handling of the logistics at a federal level, and pragmatic officials will generally collaborate to lower resource costs and smooth out the process for everyone involved. Assume that democrats and/or republicans are the ratfuck bastards you think they are, being the squeaky wheel that threatens any part of the billion dollar enterprise they’re invested in is likely to end up with a double tap suicide.
Yeah. Even if it's as simple as him telling Markwayne (lol) Mullin to allocate whatever resources necessary to lubricate the tourists' experiences coming in and out of the US, that does help. The World Cup is actually being hosted by Canada, the US and Mexico, so these people are crossing in and out of our borders quite a bit. Other foreigners are flying in. Either way, they're having to cross at least one border. Just making all of that smooth and trouble-free, it really helps provide a contrast to all of the ICE immigration sperging people are doing.
They learned that, despite what you see on the news, the US is perfectly welcoming if you're decent people here to have a good time. If you're not, that's when you get the ICE treatment.
Our visitors are learning that we're not North Korea.
There's another thing underlying Leftist seethe over foreigner's having fun while visiting the US for the World Cup that I don't think is getting enough attention.
For both Trump administrations, the Left has waxed doom about the ascendancy of fascism. They scream from the news media how the US has become a dangerous dystopia, with immigrants key to the country's economic future being round up in the night by Trumpler's racist ICE. Children are being locked in cages. Trans folx are being genocided daily. The country is filled with hateful, xenophobic bigots, ready to unleash violence upon anyone with the barest hint of accent or skin darker than copy paper. People are being summarily executed in front of the Lincoln memorial over algae in the reflecting pool. This picture of a new dark age is broadcast within the country to all of us, and without to the wider world.
But with the US hosting the World Cup, people from all over the world are coming to the US and seeing that it is in fact, not the hellscape the media sold them. The reflecting pool is clean with little algae, and is being actively tended. There are no death squads in the streets. Their taxis & ubers, are in fact, not driving them to the gulag for having a foreign accent. It turns out, that not only is Buc-ee's a real place, it is even bigger than the Internet bragged. Americans are offering visiting foreigners fun activities, like 4-wheel off-roading or horseback riding. It turns out, there's some really good food in the US that's unlike anything at home. Someone visiting for the World Cup discovers ranch dressing and says to themselves, "This is great! Why don't we have anything like this at home?"
And that, to the Lefist, is dangerous. The Left needs the world to believe to be without Leftist rule is to be consigned to a fate worse than death. Under no circumstances, must anyone outside the US be allowed to see something in the US that's happening under Trump's tenure, and say to themselves, "This is nice. Why don't we have this at home?" Not even ranch dressing. There must never be anything pleasant or good associated with anything other than the Left. For therein lies the seeds of doubt that may come to undermine Leftist rule. If things are so nice under Trump's ultra-right rule, better than Leftist rule at home, then maybe Leftist rule is not the One True Solution to governance. Perhaps the Right has good things to offer.
And that, my fellow autistic niggers, is the most blasphemous thoughtcrime there is, one that must never ever be allowed to take root, anywhere, ever.
