President Donald Trump’s recent remarks on football have enraged one of his strongest supporters in the Senate.
During the FIFA World Cup draw last week, Trump suggested in a stream-of-consciousness moment that Americans should stop using the term “soccer” for association football, and just call it “football” as much of the rest of the world does.
“When you think about it, shouldn’t it really be called … this is football, there’s no question about it. We have to come up with another name for the NFL. It really doesn’t make sense when you think about it.”
This remark drew some anger from Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), a Trump loyalist who, nonetheless, as a former college football coach, was less than happy about Trump’s attitude.
“We kick the ball too,” Tuberville, who is leaving the Senate to run for governor, told HuffPost politics reporter Igor Bobic. “We’re not changing football in our country.”
This comes after FIFA presented Trump with the “FIFA Peace Prize,” an award created after the president spent months raging about how he was not given the Nobel Peace Prize.
This deal has led FIFA head Gianni Infantino to be accused of violating the organization’s neutrality in a new ethics complaint.
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