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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Leander Schaerlaeckens

With or without Lionel Messi, Inter Miami’s Trump visit means something

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a ceremony to honor the 2025 Stanley Cup Champion Florida Panthers in the East Room of the White House on January 15, 2026 in Washington, DC., United States.
Donald Trump has welcomed other league champions, like the NHL’s Panthers, to the White House in his second term. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Donald Trump was not at the White House when the military he commands began bombing Iran over the weekend. He was at Mar-a-Lago, his estate in Florida, following the action from a makeshift situation room apparently built from those curtains that you can wheel away. That’s also where he was when American forces kidnapped Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife a few weeks earlier.

On Thursday, however, Trump will be at the White House for the really important business – namely, receiving Inter Miami as winners of the 2025 MLS Cup.

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