President Donald Trump compared his phone call about a controversial red card in the FIFA World Cup to his baseless claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

On Monday, the president was asked about his alleged role in FIFA overturning the suspension of U.S. soccer star Folarin Balogun. Balogun received an automatic suspension after he was handed a red card in USA’s round of 32 match against Bosnia and Herzegovina, and that ruling was met with widespread outrage domestically. FIFA then announced on Sunday that Balogun’s red card had been suspended, allowing him to play in Monday’s round of 16 match against Belgium. In response, the Belgians rushed to challenge that decision. FIFA shot it down.

Trump confirmed that he spoke with FIFA President Gianni Infantino and asked for a review of the red card. While talking about the situation, Trump argued that if the suspension was upheld and Belgium won, fans would have claimed the match was rigged in Belgium’s favor. He then drew parallels to his own repeated claims that the election was rigged against him six years ago.

“This game would have a big mark on it if we lost, if we won– no matter what happened,” Trump said. “You have to let them use their best players, and the game tonight’s going to be amazing. And we’re gonna have a full team, and Belgium’s gonna have a full team. And you know what? If they beat us, then they can be really proud. The other way, if they beat us, we’ll say it was– I say it was rigged just like the election was rigged in 2020, but I won’t get into that.”

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Hunter Biden called out President Donald Trump on Sunday for profiting during his presidency — after attacking his overseas business interests.

“I hope everyone had a great 4th of July. I know @realDonaldTrump and family did,” Hunter began his social media post. “250 years ago we declared independence from a king who ran the colonies as a family business. In just 18 months the Trumps have made King George look like an amateur.”

Hunter then listed off ways in which Trump raked in $2.2 billion during the first year of his second term — while Trump’s sons Don Jr. and Eric, as well as son-in-law Jared Kushner, also cleaned up.

A $620 million Pentagon loan, the largest in the program’s history, to a company Don Jr.’s firm bought into three months before.

An Air Force drone contract to a startup the princelings took public through a golf course company they own a piece of.

The Army’s largest drone motor order ever, to a company where Don Jr. sits on the board and holds millions in stock.

A $24 million Pentagon robotics contract to the company that employs Eric as Chief Strategy Advisor.

A stake in the largest undeveloped tungsten deposit on earth, in Kazakhstan, backed by $1.6 billion in US government support.

Jared’s fund seeded with $2 billion from the Saudi crown prince, now $6.2 billion, 99% of it foreign money from Gulf governments. Over $110 million in fees collected from the Saudis alone. He negotiates American foreign policy with the governments that pay him.

$2.3 billion from crypto ventures their father regulates. More than a million people bought in and lost $2.3 billion. The money didn’t grow. It simply moved from the subjects pockets to the crown’s coffers.

And the next one is already drafted. A proposed ATF rule that will allow guns to be shipped straight to your front door. The government’s own estimate is 3.3 million home gun deliveries a year. Don Jr. sits on the board of the online gun megastore built to cash in. He holds 300,000 shares.

And that’s only the fraction they’ve allowed us to see. Not one subpoena served. Not one search executed. Why hide anything when you own the investigators?

“Me?” Hunter continued. “They searched a laptop for six years. Federal prosecutors. Grand juries. Subpoena power. Congressional hearings. They found nothing. I made about $200k a year selling paintings when my Dad was President, and they made my paintings part of an impeachment inquiry.”

“For six years they’ve asked Where’s Hunter? What about the laptop? Wrong questions,” Hunter wrote. “The right one is 250 years old. Does America belong to a family? They’ve given their answer. Long live the King.”

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President Donald Trump lauded FIFA, governing body of soccer’s World Cup, for lifting a suspension of U.S. star Folarin Balogun — who is a birthright citizen

In a Sunday afternoon post to Truth Social, the president praised the shocking ruling which clears Balogun to play Monday night against Belgium in the pivotal Round of 16 World Cup match.

“Thank you to FIFA for doing what was right, and reversing a great injustice!” Trump wrote.

FIFA’s ruling was shocking in that it invoked a seldom-cited bylaw to suspend the red card which was given to Balogun in his previous match. Had the red card not been suspended, Balogun, by rule, would have been ineligible for Monday’s match.

But the irony of Trump heralding FIFA’s decision is that Balogun is only eligible to be part of the U.S. squad in the first place thanks to birthright citizenship — which the president and his administration have heavily fought against. Balogun’s mother, a British citizen, traveled to New York City while pregnant with him in 2001. An airline prohibited her from flying home, deeming her to be too close to delivery, so she gave birth to Balogun and remained in New York for two months before returning to the U.K.

Balogun is a citizen of the U.K., the U.S. and Nigeria but opted to play for the Stars and Stripes following a recruiting battle in which all three nations courted him.

Trump has been a vocal opponent of birthright citizenship. On Tuesday, after the Supreme Court ruled against his administration in Trump v. Barbara — in which the majority of Justices found Trump’s 2025 executive order violated the 14th Amendment — the president raged against the decision and called on Congress to pass a new Amendment.

“The Supreme Court upheld Birthright Citizenship, which is too bad for our Country, but we can easily make it up in Congress through Legislation, with the support of the President, that has now been determined during this process,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. “No long and unwieldy Constitutional Amendment is necessary! Congress should start TODAY to work on ending expensive and unfair to our Country, Birthright Citizenship.”

Trump’s praise of FIFA is also likely to draw renewed scrutiny on the cozy relationship between Trump and FIFA’s president Gianni Infantino — who created an award called the FIFA Peace Prize and gave it to the president in 2025.

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A Freedom 250 crowd roared as President Donald Trump declared, “In America we speak English” and dropped the defiant assassination-attempt-associated “Fight, fight, fight!” tagline

The president delivered the keynote address at a Mount Rushmore event celebrating the nation’s 250th year, or the American Semi-Quincentennial or the United States’ Quarter-Millentennial or the Bicentennial-and-a-Half — whichever you prefer.

In one chunk of the speech, Trump got a huge reaction from the crowd for his ode to speaking English, then weaved his Butler, PA slogan into his speech by telling them “We will always fight, fight, fight, and win, win, win!”:

Americans honor excellence. We admire boldness. We respect ambition. We are a nation of dreamers and believers, warriors and explorers, doers and fighters. In every human endeavor, Americans see an unfinished competition. What is strong can be made stronger. What is fast can be made faster. What is great can be made greater than ever before. And that’s what’s happening with America.

Show us a mountain, and we’ll just climb it. Show us an ocean, and we’ll just cross it. Show us a problem, and we will just solve it. Show us a task the world calls impossible and Americans will get it done.

Americans are strong and always ready to stand firm for a good cause. We treasure justice, fairness, family, honesty, and human dignity. Unlike societies based on class, clan, or tribe, we see every citizen as an individual equal under the law and equal under the eyes of the Lord.

In America, we speak English because that is the language of our founding. For a thousand years, that has been the language of freedom.

An American always wants peace and order, but we will never shrink from danger or threat. We will always fight, fight, fight, and win, win, win! We’ve got to do that.

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Comedian and pundit Bill Maher whined to Trump Vice President JD Vance about Democrats not coming on his show, but conveniently left out the reasons why. I still wish they’d do it.

Maher interviewed Vance on Friday night’s edition of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, and while he got in some tough talk here and there, he began with a little bit of mutual knob-polishing.

He began by congratulating Vance and other Republicans for their bravery in coming on his show, and lamented how he can’t get New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), former Vice President Kamala Harris, and others to come on his show:

BILL MAHER: Do I have the nicest crowd?

VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE: I’m sure it’s the only applause I’ll get, but I’ll take.

BILL MAHER: No, I mean, I’m just glad you’re talking to me, you know. I mean I say it every time when the Republicans come here, they take their beating like a man. The people I vote for, they’re the ones who won’t talk to me. It’s odd, isn’t it?

VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE: It is very odd.

BILL MAHER: I mean, and I… I’m.

VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE: Like this new woman who was elected to New York. Do you think she’ll come on the show?

BILL MAHER: Oh, I know you want… No, I can’t get AOC, I cant get Mandami, I couldn’t get Kamala Harris, you know.

Took me eight years to get Obama. Anyway, let’s not talk about my problem. And I promise this is going to be a lot easier than talking to the Iranians. Or even more, The View.

VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE: The question is whether it’s harder than The View, that’s right.

And when he’s not ripping Democrats who won’t come on his show, he’s congratulating himself for having dinner with Trump, while also demonstrating how thoroughly Trump played him.

Here’s what Bill won’t tell his audience, or maybe even himself: it’s because he trafficks in despicable bigotry of multiple stripes.

Most ostentatiously, he’s a virulent and ignorant transphobe, but he has also made mocking any and all concern for marginalized groups — Black people, LGBTQ people, really anyone whose concerns are derided by bigots as “woke” — his entire personality. He’s also spent decades deriding Islam to non-Muslim guests— and even got called out on it on his show.

And he does all of this with a near-complete ignorance of the facts.

So it’s not a big mystery why someone like Mamdani — who is also pretty busy — or AOC or Harris don’t want to sign up for the intellectual labor of educating Maher, or the frustration of dealing with his practiced rationalizations. But they also don’t want to contribute to the success of such a toxic personality.

But I wish they would. As much of a cranky, ignorant, liberal-until-it-hurts-me Boomer as Maher can be, he’s still useful and his audience is still reachable. They hate Trump, but they’re also being trained to hate caring about marginalized communities.

Maher is a skilled communicator, as many comics are, which is probably part of the reason liberals aren’t lining up to do fruitless verbal combat with him. He surrounds himself with Democrats who are willing to sit there and laugh along with whatever he says, but rarely books someone who might push back against his pet “woke” bogeymen — or persons with bogey.

But what if he did? What if Maher’s viewers were exposed to someone who was willing to push back? If someone like Trump could work Maher so thoroughly that he made Maher literally think up reasons to praise him, what could Mamdani — who took over Trump’s own office — do with 12 minutes on Real Time? What could AOC do on a panel with Maher and Joe Rogan?

I’d love to see it. I probably won’t get to.

Watch above via HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher.

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) praised the rise of Democratic Socialists within the Democratic Party and argued ahead of the July 4th weekend that the “country is on the verge of the political revolution that we have fought for for such a long time.”

Sanders released a lengthy video message on social media earlier in the week and said, “When I look at the huge turnouts for our Fight Oligarchy rallies and No Kings events—I mean, millions of people all over the country coming out to these events.”

Sanders spoke after Democratic Socialists continued their momentum beyond New York City with a massive Tuesday night win in metro-Denver, with Melat Kiros unseating a 15-term incumbent.

“When I look at a billionaire tax qualifying for the ballot in California, which is no easy task. When I look at worker organizing campaigns sprouting up and succeeding across the country. When I look at public support for trade unions at an all-time high—I believe that it may just be possible that this country is on the verge of the political revolution we have fought for, for such a long time,” Sanders crowed, adding:

Now, I do not have a crystal ball to tell you what will happen next, but last night and the last several months have given me hope and optimism, and I hope it does the same for you. It has given me hope that all across this country, people understand that, given the dangerous and unprecedented moment in which we are living, we need to rethink, rebuild, and fundamentally reform the Democratic Party. We need a party that is not just in opposition to Trump and his disastrous policies. That is vitally important, and progressives are going to lead the way in opposition to Trump. But that is not enough.

Watch the full clip above.

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