CNN’s Erin Burnett on Monday highlighted Donald Trump’s obvious lack of expertise about soccer, regardless of his extremely controversial intervention that noticed the game’s international governing physique, FIFA, overturn U.S. striker Folarin Balogun’s red-card suspension forward of the Individuals’ World Cup loss to Belgium.
Burnett aired footage of Trump admitting to the crimson card: “I didn’t know what that meant.”
“I didn’t suppose it meant a lot,” admitted the president, who has confessed to asking FIFA for a evaluate of the choice. He added: “Then I began listening to that which means he can’t play within the subsequent recreation.”
Trump’s admission struck Burnett.
“I imply, can we simply take a pause to be like, he truly didn’t even know what a crimson card was, proper?” she mentioned. “So any person informed him about it and, ‘Oh, I assume I’ll simply name my buddy, you understand, who gave me the peace prize.’”
FIFA’s Peace Prize-awarding President Gianna Infantino, after all, is a longtime Trump ally.