Soccer, or 'soccer', does not interest Donald Trump beyond the power relationship he grants him. The US president cares about the power relationship that his country is going to host the great sporting events of the coming years, such as the 2026 World Cup of Selections and Los Angeles 2028. Everything in the Republican has to do with the benefit he can take out of each agreement. The good relationship he maintains with the FIFA of Gianni Infantino allows him to colonize a modality that would otherwise be very distant.
Barron, the Trump who does like the 'soccer'
Of the Trump, the most interested in non -American football is Barron, the youngest son, who is 19 years old and, therefore, represents one of the 'targets' that the European soccer' wants to conquer. In 2017, being a teenager, there was talk of his fondness for Arsenal, who is owned by Stan Kroenke, an American tycoon who controls the 'gunners' through his company Kroenke Sports & Entertainment. He is also the owner of Los Angeles Rams (NFL), Denver Nuggets (NBA) or Colorado Rapids (MLS).
The real interest of the Trump's child has been publicly demonstrated. At the time it transpired that he was in the quarry of DC United, where he acted as a midfielder. His father has always brought out this connection when he has tried to strengthen the connection of the White House with a sport that for him is power and that otherwise could not control. “My son loves football, although it is not very good”; He joked at the Club World Cup raffle, when he appeared as a special Infantino guest, one of his great friends.
Of course, Trump has always preferred male football, after the tensions he has maintained with the representatives of the National Women's Team, the most laureate in history, with four world environments. “I'm not going to the damn White House as long as he is still there, although I doubt that we are invited,”Captain of the National Team and Ball in 2019. The president, who never silences, replied: “Megan should win first before speaking. They finish the work! The respect should not be missed. They should be proud of the flag they carry.”
Trump conflicts with the women's team
Trump was right, because that statement occurred in the context of the 2023 World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, who would end up taking Spain and where the US fell into the round of 16. The president took advantage of the varapalo to criticize Rapinoe, known for his LGTB activism, due to the refusal to sing the national anthem with his companions. If the president has to choose a team to visit him in his office, that is Juventus, Real Madrid rival in the round of 16. This has happened in the Club World Cup in an act as uncomfortable as surreal.
On June 18, 2025, an expedition of the 'Vecchia Signora', accompanied by Infantino as a master of ceremonies, went to the White House just a few hours before playing the first match of the Club World Cup against Al-Ain. Among them, several American players such as Weston McKennieAnd Timothy Weah, bastions of the team. The first, captain of the Italian team, had expressed more than once against the re -elected president. “I don't think Trump is the right person for the position of president. I think he is ignorant. Do not support it at all. In my opinion, it can be called racist”, He said in an interview with the Bild in 2020, when he was a member of Schalke 04.
For its part, Timothy WeahCaptain of the US National Team, is the son of George Weah, the only golden ball in Africa and former president of Liberia, the country created in Africa to house the black population of American territory. Both maintained a cordial diplomatic relationship. More comfortable than the exchange between the players of Juve and Trump, who first used 'ATEZZO' to inform Fox about war operations with Iran and then launched several uncomfortable questions.
Juventus's awkward visit to the White House
“Could a woman enter her team, guys?” He directly launched a trumos opposite that the participation of trans athletes in female competitions, something that considers part of the 'wokism' to fight, such as feminism, hence their conflicts with the selection that Rapinoe led. Before the silence, the president addressed Comolli, general director of Juventus, who tried to dodge the look. Trump, to his: “But they should play with women,” until the Frenchman had no choice but to intermediate: “They are very diplomatic, we have a good female team”. That answer served to continue and liquidate an awkward act.
“For me it was a surprise, honestly. They told us that we had to go and I had no option to say no,” Weah explained after Juventus's 5-0 victory. “He caught me by surprise. It was a bit weird. When he started talking about politics, Iran and all that, it was like: I just want to play football, uncle”, Added a footballer who did not have the opportunity to get out of an act that has a very easy to understand explanation. It begins with a phrase pronounced by Trump himself in the strange encounter:” The president of Juventus makes me very well. “
To understand this statement you have to dive in the property of the Italian team. John Elkann, born in New York, is Executive Director of Exor, the Holding of the Agnelli family, owner of the Italian club, but, above all, of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA)one of the most important automotive companies with activity in the US. For example, manufacturer of the innumerable 'Pick-up' RAM, the country's national car next to the Ford F-150. Elkann is also president of Stellantis, born of fusion with PSA (Peugeot – Citroën) in 2021. Exor also controls Italian media such as the Repubblica and the Stampa.
The close relationship between the owners 'Bianconeri' and Trump
The car industry has always been a priority for Trump and one of the sectors in which he has applied greater protectionist. Some of the FCA brands such as Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and the aforementioned RAM are national emblems of a country that has seen how part of its production has been relocated to more competitive markets such as Mexico or China. This has ended in a spiral of tariffs that force to extreme relationships between brands and Trump, to achieve exemptions that apply to the many export pieces that are needed.
Although the relationship of the Agnelli, especially Gianni, with different governments such as Henry Kissinger, related to republican ideas, was always narrow. The Fiat founding tycoon and the former president considered “friends par excellence.” The good relationship has remained to the president, with Trump qualifying Elkann as “a fantastic businessman, a man who has done a phenomenal job in the automobile industry, and that comes from a family of winners.” Hence the inescapable character of Trump's visit to Juventus, his favorite team in this Club World Cup. Until capital or commerce say otherwise.
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