JD Vance attempted a charm offensive on Tuesday, and failed with the charm while succeeding in being offensive.

It happened during an announcement that former Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s son, Andrew Giuliani, would be leading a task force for the 2026 World Cup, which will take place in the United States, Canada and Mexico next year.

Rather than stoke excitement for a global event that could be a tourism cash cow for North America, Vance decided to take a different approach — and joked about deporting the potential thousands of tourists visiting the U.S. for the occasion.

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[–] 143 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Oh hahahaha, now watch as you have the lowest WC attendance in history and be the first modern WC to lose money.

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  • [–] 106 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    losing money on a sure thing would be totally on brand for donvict & co.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    America will simply be the largest casino he's bankrupted so far

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Why people Talk about Casinos... He bankrupted Casinos but this destroyed the whole fucking City (anyway get my upvote)

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Ticket sales are already going so badly that they're CHEAPER on the secondhand market! Scalpers are taking a loss to get rid of them, which is pretty much unheard of for an event like a world cup.

    People are even more wary of traveling to Trump's US than to the Emir's Qatar or Putin's Russia.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Cities hosting the WC almost never recoup their investments. Sure, it's a windfall for a select few, but it is a bad investment for everyone else.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    I don't know why you're you were being downvoted, you're absolutely right.

    As documented by an excellent Last Week Tonight segment and also another, FIFA and a select few rich people and corporations profiting off of lucrative contracts snatch up all the income and leave everyone else with all the expenses.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I doubt FIFA is on the Republican take, and the event brings a bunch of brown people and Euros to town. Why would they care if it succeeds? If anything making it fail is part of their deliberate campaign of chaos.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I doubt FIFA is on the Republican take

    Well that would be the first corrupt administration they didn't jump in bed with at the first opportunity then.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah, holding the world cup in dictatorships is kind of their thing.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Countries like Qatar, Brazil want to host the games for the prestige and the affinity for the sport.

    US Republicans don't give a shit about "soccer." Being the brilliant dealmakers they are, they probably want FIFA to pay them.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    I doubt FIFA is on the Republican take

    Clearly you know very little about FIFA in general and Trump's buddy Infantino in particular..

    Neither have ever seen a despotic government they didn't want bribes from.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Genuine question, don't almost all countries lose money when they host the World Cup?

    FIFA literally keeps all ticket sales and broadcasting money. Your only hope is to entice more visitors in the future or be an European country that already has stadiums literally everywhere.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Genuine question, don't almost all countries lose money when they host the World Cup?

    No, they don't. A lot of money is generated from the attendance via hotel bookings, restaurant meals, alcohol sales, day excursions, VAT taxes, etc. For the tourism industry it's like shooting fish in a barrel.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    How does the world cup define losing money? Because the absolute devastation that the world cup leaves in it's wake to already poor and impoverished populations is definitely not being calculated. The human cost of labor exploitation alone is awful. But I guess that's what they mean by "profitable" anyway.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    That's for host countries that have to build stadiums. WC2026 is going to use existing stadiums in the US, Canada and Mexico, just like WC1994 the last time in the US. Not every WC is like Qatar that had to build all new stadiums for all the venues. It's always preferable that a host country already has capable stadiums like WC2014 in Brazil or WC2006 in Germany.

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