Trump Inserts Himself into Club World Cup Trophy Lift

[Prairie Gates]

I know a lot of people here don't follow soccer, but this one is yet another international embarrassment.

In a shocking result, the underdog Chelsea defeated Paris Saint-Germain in the Club World Cup final at Met Life Stadium in New Jersey today, on the strength of two goals and an assist by Chelsea star Cole Palmer. PSG was highly favored to win after destroying Inter Milan in the Champions League final and running through the best teams in the tournament (Bayern Munchen, Real Madrid) with outrageous score lines.

Now, a trophy lift is an important ceremony in soccer. The team captain brings the trophy to the podium in front of the team, then does an orchestrated lift as the whole team celebrates. I have never seen anyone else on the podium for a trophy lift. It is the team's moment. For today's lift, the trophy was brough to the podium by Trump and the President of FIFA (two corrupt assholes). While the FIFA President at least had the good sense to get off the podium, Trump stood there like an idiot, as if he were part of the team. Both Cole Palmer and Reese James (the Chelsea captain) looked at him confused (Palmer actually looked disgusted). James did the trophy lift with Trump standing next to him, realizing that Trump wasn't going to leave!

It was, as the kids used to say, AWKWARD.

Another disgrace. God knows what he will do at the actual World Cup next year.

[Baitball Blogger]

1. Wrong forum for Trump.

Soccer is an international sport. Most of the fans would be people he would deport.

[Prairie Gates]

2. Trump has for some reason glommed on to this tournament

Remember he had the full Juventus team in the Oval a few weeks ago and he started making statements about Israel-Palestine while the players, most of whom were Italian, stood behind him completely bewildered (Weston McKennie and Tim Weah, of course, are American).

[Baitball Blogger]

3. God only knows how he twisted his cognitive dissonant brain to get to this point.

[newdeal2]

4. Good thing JD was at Disneyland

At least he didn't break this trophy.

[Totally Tunsie]

5. I can't wait for the Olympics...

A$$hole will probably demand a GOLD medal for himself.

[Prairie Gates]

6. Oh God!

[GoCubsGo]

8. The way he's looking these days,

I'm not so sure he's going to last that long.

[Initech]

7. This just furthers my theory that he ruins everything!

[Prairie Gates]

9. For sure

[maxrandb]

10. The baby at every baptism. The bride at every wedding. The corpse at every funeral.

Wait! One of those doesn't sound so bad.

[Prairie Gates]

11. I want a freeze frame of Reece James' face looking over at him

Remember, none of the players on the Chelsea team are even American. Completely flummoxed by his nonsense.

[Kid Berwyn]

12. It's like he did to the PM of Montenegro.

NAZI Orban laffs.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

13. Chelsea photoshopped trump out of their official trophy raising photo

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[Prairie Gates]

14. Is there evidence that this is from an official Chelsea account?

Chelsea did show images from after Trump finally went away, when Reece James did a second trophy lift, but I don't see any evidence that Chelsea itself is responsible for that ghostly and rather poor Photoshop?

That said, all the pics on the CFC web site are without Trump, so that's a bit of a sign!

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. Chelsea appears to have retaken their official trophy photo without trump

Chelsea’s official photo does not have trump

Link to tweet

Chelsea does not want to be seen with trump

[Prairie Gates]

16. As I said, they did a second trophy lift but they did not Photoshop Trump out of a photo

The fact that they have ZERO photos of Trump out of the many photos of the trophy celebrations pretty much tells us what they think of his antics. There's no need to make up stories about it.