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Trump Touched So Many People One guy wrote: Welp, the US Men's Team had the best World Cup to date, with the most goals and most wins ever. They generally played a very fast and aggressive style which was great to watch, but like so many other World Cups, struggled against a proper European powerhouse stacked with top-notch talent in later rounds. One day we'll get over that hump, but not this time. Of course the whole affair was soured by Trump, whose toxic touch manages to poison everything he gets involved with. Same goes for that absolute worm, Infantino. The US had managed to garner SO MUCH goodwill over the past couple of weeks and it was completely ruined overnight with Trump's typical short-sighted arrogance, ignorance, and disregard for both the game and the rest of the world. That incurious puddle of piss never even knew what a red card was until a couple of days ago, guaranteed. Suddenly our side -- the guys playing the game who did nothing wrong -- were painted as cheaters and villains (unjustly, in my eyes) and global hate was unleashed, immediately. And YES the red card against Balogun was ABSOLUTE HORSESHIT and most everyone agreed, but sometimes you just take your lumps. Tough titty. The game isn't always fair (talk to England in '86) and that radioactive shitgibbon trying to intervene with the greasy supplicant cooperation of Signore Corrupcione just cast a nasty shadow over the whole affair. It nearly ruined the whole World Cup. Two days ago I was pumped for this match but his morning (my time) I watched it with a quarter heart at best, knowing that even if we managed to pull off an unlikely win that it would incur even more planetary wrath. At the very least Pochettino should have benched Balogun as a nod to the greater mood. It would have looked better, and as they say, optics are everything. I mean, he still played and we got our asses kicked. I think if Trump had stayed out of it we would have had a closer game. Our guys would have had more fire and the Belgians wouldn't have been roaring to absolutely humiliate us on the pitch, which is exactly what they did. Go Morocco!