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Trump: "I call it soccer. You know, it's just easier to do, because we have football and they have two footballs."

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I know US Bluesky knows this, but to the vast majority of the world, this World Cup is the least looked forward to ever. I feel sorry for Mexico and Canada who have to be associated with this farce.

A real FIFA president would have canceled the games in the USA and split them between Mexico and Canada. Blatter was a corrupt scumbag, but Infantino is taking it to a whole new level. I'd rather watch the kids play football.

At English public schools and universities, people often added “-er” slang endings to shortened words: * “Rugby” became “rugger” * “association” became “assoc.” * then “assoccer” * eventually shortened to “soccer”

Australia: Soccer, 2 kinds of rugby, Aussie Rules. All can be called football. American football is called gridiron. Not confusing at all. But soccer should be called football because it’s played using the feet. No hands except the goalkeeper.

Actually out of US the "american football" is almost unknown. There is another football, this is true, but it is "rugby". Anyway, the real football is the one played with feet, not with hands.

“Soccer” is English, not American. Comes from “association football”. Anyways, he’s lying. For those who aren’t soccer heads, ticket sales in the USA are pathetic. Prices are insane. Hotels are empty. That’s the reporting. And it’s hard to be “the most successful” when it hasn’t yet happened.

“It turned out the most succesfull worldcup from the standpoint they’ve ever had”? Wut? What is he even trying to say? The q was, was it worth it for the US to host it (I think?), this guy is just “winging it” and no one steps in. He is unfit. And they’re all complicit, just sitting there.

And it’s soccer, like the sport, not like what you put on your feet to keep your toes warm. That has a K in it, but soccer has two C’s in it and one is silent. I don’t know why it needed the second C but here it is and that’s a C not like the water or what you do with your eyes.

Trumps head would explode. The fact he thinks there's two footballs when globally football, American football, 2 codes of rugby, Aussie rules, gaelic. Are we counting Canadian football league as diff?

Canadian Football has different rules, different number of players on the field and different size fields. As a Canadian, I consider our game to be unique and different from the game played in the US

Wrong! Here’s what happened. Secondary resale assholes bought all the tickets, and now they are available for thousands of dollars that we don’t have because Dumpy has trashed our savings accounts, screwed over immigrants, and destroyed our country. This will be the worst WC and it’s because of POS.

What happens when you never prepare for any public event, know for absolute certainty that your base will never stop loving and everyone else will never stop loathing you, and your cognition is declining. There it is.

My favorite genre of Trump is him attempting to display his intelligence and sophistication by regurgitating whatever extremely-widely-known fact he just learned from his staff as some great new pearl of wisdom.

I said to my dressing up guy "How do you keep my shoelaces from coming loose?" He said, "Sir, I tie them with one set of rabbit ears and then I tie those ears together again!" Isn't that just incredible? Not many people could come up with a smart idea like that!

He calls it "soccer." Huh, so he's the one who started that, huh? Pretty amazing, considering it comes from the same guy who just learned there's a "b" in dumb, and that there's a word called "groceries" for stuff you buy at a supermarket.

It’s an abbreviation of “association” from the official name Association Football. We also have rugby football, in Ireland Gaelic football, in Australia they have their own Aussie rules football. Others are available. He’s exhausting