The curse of Donald Trump: where he goes, sporting defeat follows
The USMNT’s World Cup crashout is the latest episode to suggest the support and intervention of Donald J Trump brings bad luck This was originally published in This Week in Trumpland. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Wednesday Breaking a mirror. Walking under a ladder. Spilling salt. A black cat crossing one’s path. After the events of this week, it feels safe to add one more item to the list of things said to bring bad luck: the support and intervention of Donald J Trump. Continue reading...
After the events of this week, it feels safe to add one more item to the list of things said to bring bad luck: the support and intervention of Donald J Trump.
The president waded into the fortunes of the US men’s soccer team over the weekend, personally asking the Fifa president, Gianna Infantino, to overturn a red card shown to the team’s star striker, Folarin Balogun.
Balogun’s red card was controversially reversed, prompting uproar from the global football community but allowing him to play against Belgium on Monday.
Before Trump’s intervention the US had been in the middle of arguably their best World Cup run in decades.
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