"Moron in the middle
"Trump found the lure of the World Cup irresistible, comparing it to multiple simultaneous Super Bowls. It’s the kind of global spotlight that, like the women he boasted about, he simply cannot leave ungrabbed. He had blessedly mostly stayed out of the tournament’s earlier rounds, focused instead on the 250th birthday celebrations for the U.S., an event critics said he had also inserted himself into excessively. [snip]
"For 18 months, Americans have watched the Trump regime bend and break the rules while the Supreme Court puts its finger on the scale in his favor. As writer Anne Applebaum observed, Americans have grown so used to their president cheating and breaking rules that many missed why the rest of the world was quietly rooting for Belgium.
"Over the past few days, the world finally got a sample of what it’s felt like for us under Trump..." --Jay Kuo, in his Substack "Status Kuo," on the narcissistic sociopath Malignant Fascist's need for "inserting himself into something good and ruining everything," in this case, the USMNT's run in the World Cup. Sic transit gloria, America.
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