On Thursday, June 11th the 2026 FIFA World Cup launched with a match in Estadio Azteca in Mexico City. The two teams involved were almost irrelevant, so there’s no reason to even mention them in this space. This vital first match, snatched the attention of the world from the never-ending clown show in Washington, DC that always has President Donald J. Trump, as the main attraction.
There’s nothing worse than watching the leader of a country, humiliated and mocked, and yet, totally unaware in real time that he’s being treated in a contemptuous manner.
This happened to Trump on his recent state visit to Beijing, China.
Not only did Xi Jinping not bother to inconvenience himself, by making an appearance at the airport to greet a person who in former times might have been addressed as The Leader of the Free World, every minute the two were on camera together, Xi had the pained expression on his pale mug of someone who is being required by duty and obligation, to endure the presence of a fool.
In this same time space leading up to the start of global football’s biggest event, the World Cup was being savaged online by enraged detractors who feel deep agony with both Donald Trump’s and FIFA’s involvement with the once every four years sports extravaganza.