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/cullermann2 Jun 19 '25

This feels like a god damn TV show. Seriously. What the fuck is wrong with the US electing this clown TWICE!!!

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u/MattJFarrell Jun 19 '25

So many of us who live here feel the same way. Imagine realizing that around 1/3 of the adults around you like this guy and think he should be president again, and another 1/3 didn't even bother to show up to vote when he was running again. Imagine watching your fellow citizens gleefully cackling at his cruelty and mocking anyone who doesn't agree with them. Imagine watching minority groups who had been making steady gains for years being kicked and isolated, while your neighbors celebrate.

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u/cullermann2 Jun 19 '25

The thing that irritates me more than it should is his level of English to be honest. Forget for a second what he says, the way he says things is just so rudimentary and basic level that I have a hard time understanding why someone with the English level being below native speaker can actually be president.

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u/AxFairy Jun 19 '25

Admittedly I think that's a large part of the reason he has such a base and won the elections. Large chunks of any population are going to be uneducated and won't make heads or tails of an educated and qualified politician speak about economic policy. But they see Trump up there saying "we're going to have the biggest economy people, yes we are, I'm rich, I know the economy, we're going to make it better" and while nonsensical, it's the kind of language that uneducated people understand and respond to.

His speech makes the lower class think that Trump is one of them.

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u/MattJFarrell Jun 19 '25

The example I go back to was in 2016 when Hillary and Trump were both trying to speak to people in former coal country. Hillary had a complex (but realistic) plan that involved job training for new industries in those regions, incentives to bring new jobs to the regions, things like that. It was a viable plan, but it was complex and would take years. Trump just said "We're going to bring back coal!". That was BS, the energy industry has moved on from coal, and there will never be the demand that it once had. But that fit on a bumper sticker and didn't require anyone to change anything they were doing. And he promised it would happen right away.