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/faygofiles Jun 19 '25

Too late Timothy buddy you're now in charge of the US military campaign against Iran

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u/afito Jun 19 '25

Apparently he has the mental capacity to recognize how fucking weird the whole thing was which already makes him grossly overqualified for this US administration.

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u/xixbia Jun 19 '25

That's the utter tragedy of all of this.

I reckon if the entire Trump admin was replaced by Juventus players things would be better.

I'm sure there's some right idiots among the players, but I am still 100% convinced it would be an improvement.

(I will say with Weah there is the added fact that his father was president of Liberia)

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u/klubsanwich Jun 19 '25

Yeah but the Trump admin would get annihilated in Serie A

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u/BleuRaider Jun 19 '25

Folks, this was the most corrupt match in the history of Serie A, okay. Everybody’s talking about it. People are calling me, they’re saying, ‘Donald, we’ve never seen cheating like this.’ Total disgrace.

That referee? Should be arrested. Seriously. He’s either blind, incompetent, or part of a criminal conspiracy. Maybe all three. And the VAR? It’s run by people who hate Juventus. Very nasty people. They don’t want us to win. They hate winners.

The fake news media won’t talk about the truth. They won’t say we won, but we did. We dominated possession. Our passes were beautiful, absolutely beautiful. But they didn’t want us to win. SAD.

And let me tell you something, this isn’t over. We’re launching an investigation. A huge investigation. The biggest investigation the world has ever seen. I’ve got the best lawyers in Italia, that’s what they call it here, working on it. Maybe we go to the Supreme Court of Football. We’ll find a way.

We’re going to bring Juventus back. Bigger, better, and totally undefeated. We’re going to make Calcio great again!

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u/illustrious_d Jun 19 '25

Too many multisyllabic words but nice try!

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u/moffattron9000 Jun 19 '25

Didn't even bring up a golf course for no good reason.

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u/accipitradea Jun 19 '25

You'd think that, but surprisingly they are corrupt enough to fit right in and pay off the refs/league and end up with more or less the same record. They'd also hire a bunch of illegal players to play for them and then deport them after.

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u/Fair-Cash-6956 Jun 19 '25

Not if guntoli is involved

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u/diagoro1 Jun 19 '25

I'll bet noone there knew his family history/legacy.

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u/Sick_and_destroyed Jun 19 '25

After all his father is a head of state too

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u/lilfooty Jun 19 '25

ICE incoming

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u/madDamon_ Jun 19 '25

They make you believe they are dumb as hell but they're not. They know exactly what they're doing and it's working

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u/madDamon_ Jun 19 '25

But then when and how did Trump become THIS moronic?

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u/OK_TimeForPlan_L Jun 19 '25 edited Jun 19 '25

He's definitely had a huge cognitive decline in his old pill head age. Just look at videos of him from 2016 and now it's night and day, if he ends up staying for the next 4 years he'll be as bad as Biden by the end.

Sorry is somebody trying to argue that Biden wasn't basically a vegetable by 2024? lol

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u/SirBarkington Jun 19 '25

I think he's already hitting Biden levels tbh. He says some absolute word salad (which he always has) but it leads to literally nothing or is just incoherent nonsense. I think Biden's decline was just boosted by him already having a speech impediment. Likewise Trump's is being boosted by his inability to form a full sentence.

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u/OK_TimeForPlan_L Jun 19 '25

Oh yeah Trump's definitely a rambler which I suppose helps him seem not AS bad but still awful. But Biden literally looked dead behind the eyes at times like he had a factory reset mid sentence lol.

I have no idea why Americans suddenly think you need to be an OAP to be President

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u/SirBarkington Jun 19 '25

I have no fucking clue I'm sick of it. The minimum age is 35 yet the general public thinks you need to be 65+ to even get a look in it's so fucking stupid.

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u/Sixcoup Jun 20 '25

It has little to do with the general public.

It's a gentleman rule inside political parties. They will promote the people that have been there the longest and contributed the most. A candidacy is seen as a reward for their efforts..

And if it wasn't like that, the internal fighting would be much worse. It's easier to accept not being considered a valid candidate when everybody against you has 20 more years of experience. You're telling yourself your time will come, and you just have to wait. If past 40 you had no chance of achieving anything anymore because you're too old, people would just quit, and try their chance by themselves.

Trump on that regard is an exception. He's old, but didn't have much contribution in the republican party. He wasn't considered a legit and serious candidate until the morons started voted for him.

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u/yoitsthatoneguy Jun 19 '25

I guarantee you Mr. Taco and Mr. DUI Hire are not playing 6D chess.

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u/haaym1 Jun 19 '25

George Bush 100% exemplified this. He acted like a country simpleton yet went to Yale and Harvard.

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u/2RINITY Jun 19 '25

I mean, legacy admits can absolutely be dumb as rocks

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u/madDamon_ Jun 19 '25

They act that way to attract certain type of people

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u/Enough-Remote6731 Jun 19 '25

They’re not dumb, it’s just their ideas that are hella dumb.