
A huge international soccer event is being held in the United States; FIFA is hosting the inaugural reformatted Club World Cup, and the Trump administration took all but a couple of weeks to tank the entire thing. One misguided, now-deleted tweet was all it took for ticket prices to tumble from hundreds of dollars to about $4 each.
There are layers to this. FIFA is hosting the World Cup partly in the USA in 2026, and as a precursor to that tournament, the international organization booked a club version featuring teams from every corner of the globe. The announcement was initially warmly received, and the trophy presentation even took place at the White House in the presence of President Trump.