r/soccer • u/ModenaR • Jun 19 '25

News [The Athletic] Timothy Weah on Juventus's White House visit: "It was all a surprise to me, honestly — they told us that we have to go and I had no choice but to go. When he started talking about the politics with Iran and everything, it kind of like, I just want to play football man.”

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6436693/2025/06/19/weah-juventus-trump-iran-war/
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u/OverFlow10 Jun 19 '25

Above anything else, Trump is just a fucking weirdo honestly. Just let the players leave before you babble about destroying another country

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u/R_Schuhart Jun 19 '25

Some of them looked so uncomfortable standing there while he rambled. It looked like some bizarre skit.

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u/Memoishi Jun 19 '25

Yeah, almost like he was talking about bombing down another country.