JD Vance attempted a charm offensive on Tuesday, and failed with the charm while succeeding in being offensive.
It happened during an announcement that former Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s son, Andrew Giuliani, would be leading a task force for the 2026 World Cup, which will take place in the United States, Canada and Mexico next year.
Rather than stoke excitement for a global event that could be a tourism cash cow for North America, Vance decided to take a different approach — and joked about deporting the potential thousands of tourists visiting the U.S. for the occasion.
I’m surprised Trump’s even fine with hosting the world cup in the first place seeing as every professional footballer is a migrant by definition.
it is a money maker considering they don’t need to build new stadium or infrastructure. However these things doesn’t mean much, I think what he cares about how the final draw up to 1.5 billion viewer… so if he get to be there handing gold medals or something he will be happy.
TBF the American women’s team is good.
That’s completely irrelevant, a migrant is someone who relocates for work-related purposes, 99.9% of football players are doing so, that’s the whole backbone of football, not including Sunday league players.
Yeah, true that. I misunderstood your original comment as implying that American players weren’t good enough to be professional!
And yeah, sports like this really do show how open most of the world is to migration, even if only of skilled workers. Vance’s ‘joke’ is a sign of how America is turning away even from that and becoming more insular. There are both positive and negative aspects to globalisation but I’m thinking that locking the doors, drawing the curtains, and gripping a gun is not a healthy response.
I’ve been to over 50 countries in all seven continents, and I’ve lived in four of those. Never did I feel anything that I would would describe as fear.
I will be travelling to the US for an exchange program next month. I am afraid. To the point I am actually considering cancelling what could be a career changing opportunity.
I would consider canceling any dealings with US if said person isn’t white, even that is a stretch for this dogshit administration. I hope we see a general protest by making the World Cup barren.
As a sane person I am deeply sorry for any strife our government causes. Do your best to stay safe!
You should be concerned, the US government will change your job title to El Salvadorian Detainee whether you want them to or not.
My feelings are your feelings… but I am not planning on traveling to the US.
Is the opportunity “once in a lifetime” or can you find alternatives like Europe? Tbh things are too fucked up now, even I am afraid to travel there a few weeks to visit.
Is the opportunity “once in a lifetime” or can you find alternatives like Europe?
Generally speaking, opportunities are difficult to find and if you let go of one, depending on what kind of opportunity it is, you might get another one in a few years, or decades, or never. Depending on what line of work you’re in, European opportunities aren’t comparable to American ones either. Tech industry in Europe is in a laughable state, for an example.
I am in the US, and I despise what’s going on. So please do not take what I am about to say as a defense to what is happening here.
Things are pretty extreme right now, but they aren’t as bad as the extreme left media is making it out to be. I find news articles posted on Lemmy are often sensationalized. There are 100% things we need to worry about, and things I myself am fighting (most everything the orange man does). But I do not think it is so bad you should cancel a big opportunity for yourself. Obviously things are happening to people, but most people are traveling to and from the US without any issues. You aren’t going to hear reports about all the people who didn’t have any issues while traveling.
I do not think there is reason to believe anything would happen to you. The right doesn’t want you here, so they absolutely aren’t going to keep you here as a prisoner. If they wanted you out, you would gladly leave on your own accord and cover all the expenses. They wouldn’t spend more money making you leave if you don’t want to be here anyway.
extreme left media
Where is this mythical entity? I’d like to subscribe.
Not a joke, not a joke.
Even the fucking Nazis made sure Germany was as hospitable as possible to all visitors in the 1936 Olympics. The blatant Nazi propaganda, however, backfired and many people left with a sour taste in their mouths after the event.
Ha ha, yes, such a joker that JD. Totally not a cowardly sleazebeg acting as a “good person” and testing the waters on controversial stuff like a certain orange president likes to do… He’s learning well.
I really hope this is the World Cup with the least international attendance in recent memory (should really be 0, but that’s sadly too unrealistic) . Don’t spend your money in the US, if FIFA wants your fan money they should relocate the world cup to somewhere without threats.
How funny will it be when all of the seats are empty? Americans don’t care about soccer, this event will be funded by tourism and now those folks will be opting out. If I were planning this event I’d be livid. Vance, shut your stupid fucking mouth and never speak again as long as you live.
It’s apparently also in Mexico and Canada, so you can still visit matches there.
Would be funny if the stadiums in Mexico and Canada were chock full while those in the US were half empty. You’d hope they’d finally get the message.
They’d just say “soccer is woke anyway. Football ura” it’s a cult and I hate it here
They’ll just say the stadium was full, it was the FIFA with the highest ratings some people say. A great, big, beautiful FIFA. You know they know a lot about FIFA and some say that will be the best one. FIFA guys, coming up to him crying, saying ‘oh thank you Mr. President. FIFA was nothing before you got here and now everyone’s talking about it.’ People didn’t know what FIFA was before the president. It’s true until he started talking about it no one knew what FIFA was. That’s because he’s the best a FIFA. In all the world no one is better at FIFA than America and the President. /S
I am convinced that World Cup 2026 will not happen in the United States.
If you go to this you’re a fucking idiot. Not worth being sent to an El Salvador concentration camp just to watch a soccer match. Just watch it on tv.
People went to Qatar to sit in slave-built stadiums. Don’t expect any morals from FIFA fans.
It didn’t directly effect them. They don’t give a shit how it was built.
No morals, but maybe self preservation isn’t too much to expect.
Yes, but they didn’t have the chance of becoming slaves themselves, so the situation is different.
If you support fifa in any way, you’re an idiot. I don’t have much hope that anybody will change their behavior.
Trump’s corruprion is finding freindship in FIFA.
haha so funny, much laughing as our tourism industry tanks
these absolute abject cretins, fucking beyond a disgrace they are ‘leading’ this country
They represent who we are. Either fully mask off shitty people or lazy AF who don’t care. This is America until we prove otherwise.
So which one are you?
Haha human rights violations are hilarious
This guy can’t even pretend to be a normal person.
He is the embodiment of mommy issues.
Dorothy Mantooth was a saint!
I know FIFA is corrupt but does anyone not see how dangerous traveling to the United States currently is?
Soccer fans have below average concern for world politics, in my experience.
Oh hahahaha, now watch as you have the lowest WC attendance in history and be the first modern WC to lose money.
losing money on a sure thing would be totally on brand for donvict & co.
America will simply be the largest casino he’s bankrupted so far
Why people Talk about Casinos… He bankrupted Casinos but this destroyed the whole fucking City (anyway get my upvote)
I’m happy when my cell phone already writes the words I write and that’s already a frustrating act, if punctuation marks are added, the cell phone is in 1000 pieces on the wall.
Ticket sales are already going so badly that they’re CHEAPER on the secondhand market! Scalpers are taking a loss to get rid of them, which is pretty much unheard of for an event like a world cup.
People are even more wary of traveling to Trump’s US than to the Emir’s Qatar or Putin’s Russia.
Wait, are tickets for the 2026 World Cup already on sale?
Cities hosting the WC almost never recoup their investments. Sure, it’s a windfall for a select few, but it is a bad investment for everyone else.
I don’t know why
you’reyou were being downvoted, you’re absolutely right.As documented by an excellent Last Week Tonight segment and also another, FIFA and a select few rich people and corporations profiting off of lucrative contracts snatch up all the income and leave everyone else with all the expenses.
I don’t know why
you’reyou were being downvoted, you’re absolutely right.I think you just answered your own question. :)
It doesn’t have to be profitable for the “city” that’s socialized cost. It just needs to be profitable for capital.
They’ll burn $10 of your money to make $1 in profit.
They hope for tourist. So do the math. Carefully… you must using MAGA math xD
How does the world cup define losing money? Because the absolute devastation that the world cup leaves in it’s wake to already poor and impoverished populations is definitely not being calculated. The human cost of labor exploitation alone is awful. But I guess that’s what they mean by “profitable” anyway.
That’s for host countries that have to build stadiums. WC2026 is going to use existing stadiums in the US, Canada and Mexico, just like WC1994 the last time in the US. Not every WC is like Qatar that had to build all new stadiums for all the venues. It’s always preferable that a host country already has capable stadiums like WC2014 in Brazil or WC2006 in Germany.
I doubt FIFA is on the Republican take, and the event brings a bunch of brown people and Euros to town. Why would they care if it succeeds? If anything making it fail is part of their deliberate campaign of chaos.
I doubt FIFA is on the Republican take
Well that would be the first corrupt administration they didn’t jump in bed with at the first opportunity then.
Yeah, holding the world cup in dictatorships is kind of their thing.
At what point is it a fetish for them?
It’s just plain corruption, but I guess they get off on having lots of money?
As long as the cheque clears, they don’t care.
Countries like Qatar, Brazil want to host the games for the prestige and the affinity for the sport.
US Republicans don’t give a shit about “soccer.” Being the brilliant dealmakers they are, they probably want FIFA to pay them.
I doubt FIFA is on the Republican take
Clearly you know very little about FIFA in general and Trump’s buddy Infantino in particular…
Neither have ever seen a despotic government they didn’t want bribes from.
Genuine question, don’t almost all countries lose money when they host the World Cup?
FIFA literally keeps all ticket sales and broadcasting money. Your only hope is to entice more visitors in the future or be an European country that already has stadiums literally everywhere.
Genuine question, don’t almost all countries lose money when they host the World Cup?
No, they don’t. A lot of money is generated from the attendance via hotel bookings, restaurant meals, alcohol sales, day excursions, VAT taxes, etc. For the tourism industry it’s like shooting fish in a barrel.
Dear Foreigner,
If you are coming to the US for the world cup you are fucking stupid. You’re going to spend thousands of your preferred currency to get harassed by Customs and if you fuck up and get arrested for whatever little thing the police that stops you has up his ass that day you run the risk of ending up in South America or Africa but not the part you are from, in a jail somewhere getting fucked.
Unless you are white, if you’re white come on over, have a beer. Remember, though, even if you are Spanish, Italian, Greek, or any of those other darkies you gay commie Europeans call white, you are going to get lumped in with the Mexicans, especially if you speak Mexican or eye tie.
Fuck you, countries full,
XOXO JD 😘 🛋😘 Vance XOXO
Nah we’ll arrest random whites too.
Jasmine Mooney was locked up for 11 days, no method of reaching out to the outside world.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jasmine-mooney-canadian-detained-ice-us-mexico/
And any tattoo can and will be interpreted as a gang affiliation. No matter the mental gymnastics required.
Only sailors and gang members get visible tattoos and I don’t see no boat.
And don’t forget that photoshopped tattoos count!
Poorly photoshopped “tattoos”.
That wasn’t even Photoshop! That was MS Paint.
Or just photoshop them on poorly like it’s 1998 and say you had them.
Name is Jasmine? You ain’t fooling me, I’ve seen Aladdin.
She overstayed a prior visa. They will go after white people with any red flags.
I would advise non American white people to stay away though. The current American administration wants to crush your economies and doesn’t give a shit about you. How could you justify spending your money there now?
For all people outside the US please take a close look at your subscriptions. Amazon, Netflix, Uber, YouTube, HBO etc. That is all money being funelled into the US. Please also think about where you spend your attention. Looking at Instagram everyday pumps ad revenue into Meta. America has a massive trade surplus with the world when it comes to services. A deliberate effort to unsubscribe from these services would send message.
I’m not saying cut yourself off from the world… But weigh your options.
People willingly went to Qatar for the World Cup. Sports fans are fucking dumb and/or don’t give a shit about anything as long as they can see their team play and win. And for those that don’t know or forgot, Qatar killed thousands of workers violating human rights and basic safety when building all their stadiums.
Right, but Qatar committed to treating those tourists as guests, and as far as I know, did exactly that, even easing some of their morality laws for the visitors. Attending the Qatar World Cup was unethical, but not stupidly self-endangering. Attending the World Cup in the US under the current situation is stupidly self-endangering, especially if you aren’t “white”, but also sometimes even then.
Unless you are white, if you’re white come on over, have a beer
bzzt, even white people are getting fucked around with by ICE.
Look everyone knows Germany is just full of immigrants and Muslims so of course they got stopped especially those that come and go from Mexico. Nothing but illegals and fentanyl come out of Mexico.
It’s almost cute that you thought he was joking.
And steal their bike
Who the fuck thought it’d be a good idea to hold the world cup in the US, a country that doesn’t even give a fuck about football?
The same people who thought Qatar was a good host
