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President Donald Trump has threatened to take the World Cup out of the New England region if Boston’s Democratic mayor, Michelle Wu, did not crack down on crime.
Well, no threat has yet been made to the New York area, which will host the final on July 19, 2026, and New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, who Trump once called a “Communist lunatic,” told Martha MacCallum on Wednesday he would welcome Trump and his soccer-loving son, Barron, to MetLife Stadium.
Trump attended the Club World Cup final at the New Jersey stadium back in July.
“What we’re seeing is that FIFA’s approach to the ticket process of the World Cup is both without precedent in their own administration of previous World Cups and is also an approach that will price out so many New Yorkers from actually being able to be in the stands,” he said on “Pablo Torre Finds Out.”
Mamdani recently called for 15% of tickets to be set aside at discounted prices for residents and asked FIFA, soccer’s governing body, to reverse a plan to set ticket prices based on demand.
Tickets will start at $60 for group-stage matches and increase to $6,730 for the final, officials said earlier in September. However, pricing could fluctuate under the demand-based pricing model.
The Associated Press and Fox News Digital’s Louis Casano contributed to this report.
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