Trump’s World Cup Czar Explains Why The President Hasn’t Made An Appearance At Any Games

President Donald Trump hasn't attended a World Cup 2026 lucifer yet, contempt nan U.S. being 1 of 3 big countries this year.

Andrew Giuliani — boy of erstwhile New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and nan main of Trump's World Cup task unit — sought to explicate nan president's absence truthful far.

Giuliani told The Telegraph the president hasn’t attended a game yet because he wants to "leave group watching."

“I cognize he’s sewage a mates of world trips that he has planned arsenic good arsenic Independence Day, truthful nan only point I’ll show you astir my boss—and I’ve known him for, heck, 30 years, and he’s benignant of for illustration an uncle fig to me—he likes a bully cliffhanger, right?” he told nan paper.

He said Trump “likes to time off group watching, truthful each I tin show you is ‘keep tuned in’, and I’m excited to spot what nan adjacent steps are.”

That suggests that Trump may, astatine immoderate point, be a match.

Even if Trump wanted to solely be matches featuring nan U.S. men's team, he's had 2 opportunities already. The U.S. won its opening lucifer against Paraguay and past went connected to hit Australia successful nan second.

While evidently a engaged man, Trump has managed to carve retired clip to be Game 3 of nan NBA Finals successful New York — nan only crippled nan New York Knicks mislaid — and to watch UFC 250, which took spot connected nan White House lawn.

Trump reportedly called nan squad earlier this week to show them “I deliberation you’ve sewage a really bully chance of going each nan way," according to The Athletic.

Perhaps his reception astatine nan Knicks crippled has persuaded him to debar venues filled pinch apt dispute crowds. During his sojourn to Madison Square Garden to watch nan Knicks, Trump was met pinch boos from nan crowd. After nan Knicks lost, fans filmed themselves burning sage extracurricular nan arena ahead of Game 4 to purge what they said was nan bad power nan president had brought.

While nan World Cup crowds whitethorn not respond good to Trump's presence, he's sewage astatine slightest 1 instrumentality very precocious up nan World Cup nutrient chain; FIFA President Gianni Infantino.

The Swiss-born World Cup main has been reasonably unfastened successful his efforts to triumph Trump over, moreover going truthful acold arsenic to create a FIFA World Peace prize conscionable to springiness to nan president aft he was denied nan Nobel Peace Prize earlier this year.

Infantino has not commented publically astir nan president seemingly snubbing 1 of nan world's top sporting events.

An unnamed root told The Telegraph that Trump would apt only make an quality if nan U.S. squad made it to nan semifinals.

“The president is preoccupied pinch nan U.S.’s July 4 celebrations. The World Cup conscionable isn’t connected his radar astatine nan moment,” nan root said. “He will springiness nan trophy astatine nan final, but I don’t deliberation we will spot him earlier then. It’s imaginable he’ll spell to a semi-final, but only if nan U.S. gets that far.”

Neither of Trump's chap host-nation leaders — Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney and Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum — attended their nationalist teams' opening matches either. Carney did be nan Canadian team's 2nd lucifer against Qatar.

Sheinbaum made clear earlier nan World Cup that she would not attend, and alternatively donated her summons to a young Indigenous female who won a title for nan chance to be a match.

“As president, it’s amended that I springiness my spot to personification who couldn’t person gone," she said during a news conference.

While Trump hasn't attended a crippled yet, different members of his management have.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin, Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy and Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy person each attended matches.

Democrats person besides made appearances, including California Governor Gavin Newsom — who attended nan U.S. opener — and New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who attended a lucifer betwixt Morocco and Brazil.