Donald Trump’s longtime nemesis Rosie O’Donnell can’t believe the crap he just did at the World Cup.
For those fortunate enough not to know, Trump, the president of one of the countries hosting this year’s World Cup, personally lobbied FIFA president Gianni Infantino to rescind the red card for Folarin Balogun that would have kept America’s best player out of the first round of the last-16 tournament against Belgium. While the red card was certainly excessive, President Trump’s intervention resulted in the first red card decision to be overturned since 1962, sending a whiff of corruption around the world and casting a pall over the U.S. men’s national team’s performance in the tournament. It certainly didn’t help that Infantino presented FIFA’s inaugural Peace Prize late last year to curry favor with President Trump.
“The fact that he called FIFA and had the penalty rescinded for Team USA and America was like, ‘Oh, that’s great! I didn’t think it was a red card anyway!'” Well, you’re not some weird referee! You don’t get to decide! ” O’Donnell said. variety. “Since when does he get to create and change rules and goalposts and whatever metaphors he wants to use and everyone just stands by and shrugs his shoulders? There are so many things.” [corruption] That we don’t even realize it. ”
Mr O’Donnell said: variety The interview was to promote her one-woman play, “Rosie O’Donnell: Common Knowledge,” which is set to premiere at New York City’s Daryl Ross Theater on July 22. (The full interview will be posted online next week and will also appear in the July 22 issue of “Rosie O’Donnell: Common Knowledge.”) variety magazine). And the comedy legend said he was “appalled” that American fans and his team simply went along with Trump’s plan.
“The fact is that [Balogun] The fact that they didn’t say, “I’m not going to play in this game,” and the coach of the American team didn’t say, “We’re not going to win this,” and everyone was like, “Well, whatever!” I was terrible. I’m horrified and disgusted that he can get away with almost anything. ”
Last week, President Trump posted on social media an AI-generated video of himself as a doctor diagnosing a number of celebrities (including O’Donnell) suffering from the fictional condition “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” The video was posted on Twitter by the official White House account and shared widely (in the past, President Trump has posted images on social media depicting Jesus and the Pope healing the sick).
“He was allowed to appear on the show. [‘The Apprentice’] it is reality “It was fiction, but it was sold as fact, because he was bankrupt – one of the many times he was bankrupt – and this was a man who had failed at everything he had ever tried, and he was beyond mediocre. , the fact that he’s running our country is abhorrent,” O’Donnell exclaimed, adding, “I think this is the worst thing that’s ever happened to our country, and it needs to be rectified ASAP,” if we want to remain a democratic republic.”Later. ”
Mr. Balogun’s intervention is especially hypocritical given that he is a birthright citizen, having been born in Brooklyn, New York, to Nigerian parents who were living in London at the time. Not only did Trump recently try to revoke birthright citizenship through an executive order (which was struck down by the Supreme Court), but last summer he angrily threatened to revoke O’Donnell’s birthright citizenship. But O’Donnell says he will everytime Be a U.S. citizen:
“i will do it never Please renounce my American citizenship. That’s the only way you can have that taken away from you if you’re an American citizen, no matter what the current president says. ”
