Seeing growing calls for the England national team to boycott the Trump Glorification Cup in the summer among politicians and in the media. I’m sure other European countries affected by his tariffs and bullying will strongly consider this as well - can’t imagine Denmark going if they qualify, for instance, and other Nordic nations would likely support them.
I say everyone should absolutely boycott it. Football is not so important in the grand scheme of things, but this is actually a type of message that would get through to Trump - a threat by most Western European nations to pull of the World Cup would be potentially more effective than withholding economic or military cooperation, which he doesn’t care about anyway. Hit him where it hurts - denying him the chance at self-aggrandizement.
I say everyone should absolutely boycott it. Football is not so important in the grand scheme of things, but this is actually a type of message that would get through to Trump - a threat by most Western European nations to pull of the World Cup would be potentially more effective than withholding economic or military cooperation, which he doesn’t care about anyway. Hit him where it hurts - denying him the chance at self-aggrandizement.
