{"id":193119,"date":"2026-07-06T19:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T19:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/193119\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T19:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T19:00:16","slug":"the-latest-belgians-to-challenge-fifa-decision-to-let-folarin-balogun-play-in-world-cup-match-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/193119\/","title":{"rendered":"The Latest: Belgians to challenge FIFA decision to let Folarin Balogun play in World Cup match"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump is responding to global outrage over his intervention with FIFA during the World Cup. The president said he didn\u2019t initially know what a red card was or what its consequences were, but when he learned it could keep star U.S. forward<\/a> Folarin Balogun out of Monday\u2019s knockout match against Belgium, he felt compelled to call FIFA president Gianni Infantino asking for a review.<\/p>\n

Belgium said it\u2019s appealing the suspension of the penalty. Infantino\u2019s predecessor Sepp Blatter said \u201cred cards are not overturned by political phone calls.” Norway\u2019s coach called it \u201cbad, bad, bad, bad, bad.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump rang a ceremonial bell Monday as the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq opened, reflecting how much he’s counting on the stock market<\/a> as he promoted the launch of Trump Accounts<\/a> for children, which Republicans created in their 2025 tax and spending cuts bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And Trump will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a> and Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa on Wednesday at the NATO summit in Turkey<\/a>, as Kyiv tries to refocus his attention on the conflict with Moscow<\/a> and as Trump publicly mused about Syria\u2019s role<\/a> in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

The Latest:<\/p>\n

Trump tells lunch guests they won\u2019t have to talk to each other while music plays<\/p>\n

Trump offered his playlist as he wrapped more than 40 minutes of remarks in Washington, D.C.\u2019s heat that was held shortly after an earlier, lengthy press event in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n

\u201cShould we put on a little music, yes?,\u201d he asked. \u201cThis way you don\u2019t have to talk to each other. You just have to listen to music.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo we\u2019re going to put on a little music, the Trump playlist, OK, and we\u2019ll have a little fun,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYMCA\u201d began to play as the White House press pool was escorted back indoors.<\/p>\n

Rapper Nicki Minaj returns to White House for launch of Trump accounts<\/p>\n

Minaj got a shout-out from Trump as he spoke at a Rose Garden luncheon after an earlier event to highlight the accounts.<\/p>\n

The musical artist had joined Trump in January for an earlier announcement about the \u201cTrump Accounts\u201d for children born during his second term.<\/p>\n

Trump said Monday that Minaj is \u201cgreat\u201d and \u201cso respected.\u201d<\/p>\n

Minaj has described herself as Trump\u2019s \u201cnumber one fan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rubio also wades into the red card controversy<\/p>\n

In rare comments during a photo op ahead of his meeting with Chile\u2019s foreign minister, Secretary of State Marco Rubio echoed Trump by saying \u201cit was the right decision to reverse\u201d Balogun\u2019s penalty.<\/p>\n

Rubio acknowledged that \u201cthere\u2019s a lot of drama around\u201d the decision. But he mused about why Belgium would want to possibly win a match \u201cif everyone will argue you didn\u2019t really win it because their best, or their leading scorer was not on the pitch.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rubio joked that maybe it was \u201cturning into an international incident\u201d ahead of the NATO leaders summit in Turkey this week.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaybe we\u2019ll bring it up at NATO tomorrow or with the Belgians and everybody else,\u201d Rubio told reporters Monday, laughing. \u201cI just hope the match will go on, everyone will be at full strength and the winner will be the winner.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump says Cruz only SCOTUS appointee who would get 100 Senate votes<\/p>\n

Calling Sen. Ted Cruz \u201ca friend of mine,\u201d in the Oval Office earlier on Monday, Trump said the Texas Republican was the only potential Supreme Court nominee who could get unanimous approval for the post from the Senate.<\/p>\n

Trump talked at length about how the two were \u201cgreat friends\u201d before they duked it out for the GOP nomination during the 2016 presidential campaign, \u201cbut then it came together better than ever before.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cruz has been laying the groundwork for a possible run at the presidency again, stumping for Republican candidates in early-voting states including South Carolina<\/a>. Frequently floated by Trump for a post on the high court, Cruz has said he would decline it, preferring to stay in politics and policy.<\/p>\n

Trump says he\u2019s putting \u2018a lot of love\u2019 back into the White House<\/p>\n

Trump reviewed several of his White House renovation projects at a lunch on the Rose Garden patio for his investment accounts that bear his name for children born during his second term.<\/p>\n

He referenced work being done to the columns on the Pennsylvania Avenue entrance to the mansion and said he was having layers and layers of paint removed.<\/p>\n

Trump also talked about the ballroom he\u2019s building and his decision to replace the lawn in the Rose Garden with patio stone.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re putting a lot of love back into the White House,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Nonprofits and brands navigate this partisan 250th in search of a unifying tone<\/p>\n

The United States\u2019 250th birthday carries ambitions to galvanize Americans<\/a> behind nationwide community-service drives and patriotic brand launches. Well-known U.S. nonprofits hope to inspire a record-setting level of volunteerism, while major companies such as Walmart and Coca-Cola are sponsoring tributes and selling limited-edition merchandise.<\/p>\n

But the private sector\u2019s unifying ambitions have been met with a mixed response, complicated by an uneasy national mood. Fewer Americans see their country as exceptional compared to 10 years ago, according to a recent survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research<\/a>, part of a broad decline in patriotic sentiment<\/a>. Views of the American flag \u2014 a prominent feature of semiquincentennial celebrations \u2014 are divided by politics, age and race<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u25b6 Read more<\/a><\/p>\n

Hamas dissolves Gaza government, plans power transfer to UN-backed committee<\/p>\n

The Hamas militant group said Monday it had dissolved its government in Gaza<\/a> and is preparing to transfer power to a technical committee backed by the United Nations as part of a U.S.-brokered ceasefire<\/a> deal.<\/p>\n

Hamas did not say whether it planned to take the crucial step of disarming or handing over security to an international force, but described its decision as evidence of its commitment to Gaza\u2019s reconstruction<\/a> after years of war.<\/p>\n

It was unclear if the move, announced by a lower-level official, would lead to any meaningful change on the ground.<\/p>\n

The Board of Peace<\/a>, led by Trump<\/a> with the mandate of governing and rebuilding Gaza, said it would assess the impact of the Hamas announcement based on \u201cactions, not promises\u201d and stressed in a statement on X that the technocratic committee must control all weapons in Gaza, as laid out in the ceasefire agreement.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu urges US not to sell F-35s to Turkey<\/p>\n

Speaking Monday on the morning show \u201cFox & Friends,\u201d Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan \u201ccalls openly for the annihilation of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Turkey and Israel have acrimonious relations. Erdogan frequently accuses Israel of committing genocide in its war in Gaza, triggered by the deadly Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack on southern Israel.<\/p>\n

Turkey was barred from the F-35 program in 2019, after it purchased Russian-made S-400 missile defense systems. However, Trump, who has warm relations with Erdogan, has hinted ahead of his planned visit to Ankara for the NATO summit that the sales could soon resume.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu said selling Turkey F-35s would \u201cupset the power balance in the Middle East, which is ultimately guaranteed by Israeli air superiority and also, I think, by America\u2019s posture in the Middle East.\u201d<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s Air Force depends on hundreds of U.S. fighter jets<\/a>, including F-35s, F-16s and F-15s.<\/p>\n

Trump points to George Washington to justify enriching his family<\/p>\n

The president has drawn sharp criticism after financial disclosures showed his family made more than $1 billion<\/a> in crypto last year.<\/p>\n

He says his sons are running the family business<\/a>, the Trump Organization<\/a>, while he\u2019s president.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t talk to them,\u201d Trump said, adding, \u201cI\u2019m allowed to, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n

But he also said he doesn\u2019t bother because being president is more important: \u201cThis office is a much higher calling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump also offered a dubious history lesson, suggesting that, as president, George Washington had two desks \u2014 one for business matters and another for the presidency.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had two desks in the same room,\u201d Trump said. \u201cAnd so, you\u2019re allowed to. But I choose not to. I don\u2019t talk to my kids about, you know, this stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump confirms he\u2019s building a helipad on the White House lawn<\/p>\n

The president argued that landing Marine One on the South Lawn, as has been done for years, was tough on the grass. He said the process has sometimes singed the grass or even torn it away.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe hardest thing to get is a helipad,\u201d Trump said. \u201cThere\u2019s no harder zoning thing to get.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added \u201cwe\u2019re building a helipad\u201d that will feature the presidential seal and be made of granite.<\/p>\n

The plan marks yet another building project for Trump, who has shaped the White House and its grounds in his own image in myriad ways.<\/p>\n

Trump questions dangers of TikTok because he\u2019s No. 1 on it<\/p>\n

Asked whether SpaceX shares would be donated for use in Trump Accounts, the president instead talked about how TikTok helped him become president again.<\/p>\n

Citing a news segment about the social media app\u2019s purported dangers, Trump said he had seen that he is \u201cNo. 1 on it,\u201d then questioned how dangerous it could actually be.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it helped me win the election in a landslide, if you want to know the truth,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

As for SpaceX, Trump said he\u2019s \u201ca cheerleader for geniuses\u201d and speaks to many of them, including Elon Musk, who founded the rocketmaking company.<\/p>\n

Trump says he called FIFA president to review red card, called it a \u2018horrible\u2019 call<\/p>\n

Asked about his role in getting Balogun\u2019s red-card penalty suspended, Trump acknowledged calling Infantino and asking that FIFA take a second look.<\/p>\n

The president said he didn\u2019t initially know what a red card was or what its consequences were. When he found out that it could keep Balogun out of Monday\u2019s match against Belgium, Trump said he felt compelled to intervene.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll I did was ask for a review,\u201d Trump said to press at the White House. \u201cI didn\u2019t think it was a foul,\u201d he added. \u201cI thought it was two great athletes that crashed each other and got entangled.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the red card was a \u201chorrible\u201d call, arguing that the slowed-down video review made it look worse than it was.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s very unfair,\u201d he said. \u201cHow do you penalize them for a game that hasn\u2019t been played?\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump warns of \u2018communists\u2019 who want to destroy US<\/p>\n

\u201cCapitalism\u201d has been the word du jour of the Trump Accounts event, with speakers talking about how the investment vehicles will energize children about financial investing.<\/p>\n

But Trump found a way to weave in a reference to the opposing socioeconomic system of communism \u2014 applying the label to the Democratic socialist candidates whose primary wins have energized many anti-Trump voters.<\/p>\n

Asked by a reporter if the program would go down as one of his \u201csignature policy achievements,\u201d Trump took the opportunity to accuse these candidates in the upcoming midterm elections of being \u201ccommunists\u201d who \u201cwant to destroy our country.\u201d The rhetoric is reminiscent of similar narratives he has employed throughout his political career.<\/p>\n

Cruz thanks Trump for intervening against \u2018ridiculous\u2019 red card<\/p>\n

Speaking alongside the president, Sen. Ted Cruz began his remarks by thanking Trump for working to get FIFA to reverse Balogun\u2019s red card penalty of a one-game suspension.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn behalf of all Americans, thank you for getting rid of that ridiculous red card,\u201d Cruz said. \u201cIt was spectacular. There was a reason the FIFA trophy sat here for as long as it did.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cruz appeared to be referring to a White House visit by FIFA President Gianni Infantino, who in a rare move brought the World Cup trophy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trump thanked FIFA over the weekend after he and the White House intervened to enable Balogun to play in Monday\u2019s match against Belgium.<\/p>\n

Trump says he believes an end to the Russia-Ukraine war is close<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019re getting much closer than people realize. And President Putin wants it to end, I will tell you that very strongly,\u201d Trump said Monday while talking to press at the White House. He added that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy also wants to end the war \u201cnow.\u201d<\/p>\n

The war and efforts to end it are forecast to be a central topic at the upcoming NATO summit this week. Trump plans to meet with Zelenskyy<\/a> at the meeting in Turkey.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019re going to get it ended,\u201d Trump said. \u201cIt\u2019s been a terrible situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cruz tries to make Trump Accounts relatable to kids in Oval Office<\/p>\n

To the children assembled for the investment accounts event, Sen. Ted Cruz tried to break down the stakes in a way they might grasp: McDonalds.<\/p>\n

Referencing a brand no doubt recognizable to all of them, the Texas senator said the Trump Accounts and their stock market investments mean the children could go into the restaurant knowing they \u201cnow own a little bit of McDonalds.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cruz made a similar reference for the kids, feeling a different connection to aeronautics manufacturer Boeing, the next time they fly in an airplane.<\/p>\n

Can older kids get any bonuses for their Trump Account?<\/p>\n

Yes, thanks to contributions from some of the country\u2019s wealthiest investors and executives.<\/p>\n

Dell Technologies founder Michael Dell and his wife, Susan, pledged to give $6.25 billion<\/a> targeted so children 10 or under can get $250 in seed money if they live in ZIP codes with a median family income of $150,000 or less.<\/p>\n

Trump announced that Sanjay Mehrotra, CEO of Micron Technology, would give $250 million. Hedge fund founder Ray Dalio and his wife, Barbara, pledged $75 million<\/a> so kids under 10 in qualifying ZIP codes in Connecticut can get $250. And Trump said investor Brad Gerstner would donate $250 to Trump Accounts for every child under 5 in Indiana.<\/p>\n

Corporations are being urged to add such contributions to their benefits packages through what Bessent calls the \u201c50 State Challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump: \u2018Nobody cares\u2019 about World Cup red card controversy<\/p>\n

The president preemptively waved away potential questions from the press about the White House\u2019s involvement in getting FIFA to reverse a red card<\/a> against U.S. star Folarin Balogun.<\/p>\n

After introducing the press at an Oval Office event on Monday, Trump said: \u201cThey don\u2019t want to know anything about soccer slash football. Fortunately, they won\u2019t be asking any questions on that. Nobody cares about that, right?\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump said he wanted to keep attention on his administration\u2019s new investment accounts for U.S. children, the topic of Monday\u2019s Oval Office event.<\/p>\n

What are critics saying about the child investment accounts?<\/p>\n

Critics point out that the accounts do little to help children in their early years, when they\u2019re most vulnerable and most likely to be in poverty. The accounts, they say, also fail to offset the cuts the Trump administration and congressional Republicans have made<\/a> to other programs that benefit young people and the adults in their lives, including food assistance and Medicaid.<\/p>\n

And even with government contributions, critics say the Trump Accounts will widen the wealth gap. Affluent families that can afford to make the maximum pretax contributions will realize the greatest benefits. Poor families that can\u2019t afford to set aside money for the accounts will benefit the least. Assuming a 7% annual return, the $1,000 in seed money would grow to roughly $3,570 over 18 years.<\/p>\n

\u25b6 Read more<\/a><\/p>\n

Bessent says 6 million American children signed up for Trump Accounts<\/p>\n

Ahead of the president ringing the market bell, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave an overview of the program so far.<\/p>\n

He said that 86% of the 6 million signed up came from families earning less than $200,000.<\/p>\n

Under the program, parents can open special investment accounts<\/a> for any child born during Trump\u2019s second term and automatically receive $1,000 from the government. Accounts can be opened for older children \u2014 as long as they don\u2019t turn 18 before the end of the calendar year \u2014 but they will not receive the $1,000. The accounts were set to open for deposits July 4, which was also the day the Treasury Department plans to transfer the $1,000 bonus.<\/p>\n

Trump rings bell at the White House as US markets open<\/p>\n

Trading had begun just before Trump rang the ceremonial bell brought to the Oval Office to mark the opening of trading in U.S. markets on Monday.<\/p>\n

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said it was the first time the opening bell had been rung in the Oval Office. Trump joked that he wanted to keep the large, silver bell for the White House.<\/p>\n

A crowd gathered in the Oval Office to watch as Trump rang the bell, including a group of children who were visibly \u2014 and vocally \u2014 excited to be there.<\/p>\n

Someone whispered \u201cbe quiet\u201d to a child who began speaking just as the president was launching into an intro about the importance of the moment.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s emphasis on stock market gains ring hollow for many Americans<\/p>\n

The Oval Office bell-ringing is aimed at promoting the launch of Trump Accounts<\/a>, which were created as a vehicle for children to have investments in stock indexes as part of Republicans\u2019 big 2025 tax and spending cuts bill<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has emphasized that millions of people \u2014 38% of American adults have no direct exposure to stocks, so don\u2019t immediately benefit from investments that largely accrue to more affluent households \u2014 \u201cbut with Trump Accounts, over time, we can get that number down to zero.\u201d<\/p>\n

The S&P 500 posted gains of 17.9% in 2025, after annual returns of 25% in 2024 and 26.3% in 2023 under President Joe Biden. The benchmark stock index has risen roughly 10% so far this year. But just as inflation crushed public support for Biden<\/a>, Trump has also seen his approval fall as his tariffs<\/a> and the start of the war in Iran<\/a> created new inflationary pressures.<\/p>\n

Trump rings opening bells for NYSE and Nasdaq<\/p>\n

Trump<\/a> rang the opening bells for the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq from the golden confines of the Oval Office on Monday, a symbolic act that reflects how he has increasingly tied his presidency to the stock market.<\/p>\n

With high inflation<\/a> hurting Trump\u2019s popularity, the Republican president has tried to get more Americans to focus on their 401(k) investments, claiming that his policies should get the credit for any gains, particularly as the November midterm elections draw closer.<\/p>\n

Only 33% of U.S. adults approve of Trump\u2019s economic leadership, according to a June survey<\/a> by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.<\/p>\n

White House takes fresh aim at Smithsonian Institution<\/p>\n

Trump may be preparing to install his own team<\/a> at the Smithsonian Institution<\/a> after a White House report<\/a> branded its leadership, especially at the National Museum of American History<\/a>, as radical activists who cannot be trusted.<\/p>\n

Trump already revealed his intention to force changes<\/a> at the Smithsonian with an executive order<\/a> targeting funding for programs advancing what he called \u201cdivisive narratives\u201d and \u201cimproper ideology.\u201d<\/p>\n

Historian Lonnie Bunch, the Smithsonian\u2019s current secretary, is the first African American to lead the institution. In an unrelated interview that aired Sunday on NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press,\u201d Bunch said \u201cAmerica\u2019s greatest strength, it\u2019s not running away from its history, but it\u2019s understanding how that history shaped us and continues to shape us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u25b6 Read more<\/a><\/p>\n

Trump won big spending promises from NATO last year. This week in Turkey, he\u2019ll try to enforce them<\/p>\n

Trump got what he wanted from NATO at last year\u2019s summit:<\/a> an alliance whose members had largely acceded to his demands to step up their defense spending.<\/p>\n

This week, when he meets leaders in Turkey,<\/a> his mission is to enforce that pledge.<\/a><\/p>\n

The speed with which most NATO countries have tried to heed Trump\u2019s call to spend 5% of their annual gross domestic product on defense over the next decade underscores how the U.S. president has reshaped the alliance and bent it to his will \u2014 even as he continues to spar with its members over the Iran war<\/a>, his flirtation with annexing Greenland<\/a>, and various personal tiffs.<\/p>\n

Trump leaves Monday evening for the summit, and for days leading up to the trip has been airing grievances about how much the U.S. spends on defense compared with other countries. That\u2019s despite efforts from Mark Rutte<\/a>, the alliance\u2019s secretary-general, who tried to feed the ego of the tempestuous U.S. leader in an Oval Office meeting last month.<\/p>\n

\u25b6 Read more<\/a><\/p>\n

Trump posts a doctored photo of the Obamas and Air Force One with graffiti spray-painted on plane <\/p>\n

Trump on Sunday posted a falsified image of former President Barack Obama<\/a> and his wife, Michelle Obama<\/a>, waving before boarding an Air Force One that had been spray-painted with graffiti.<\/p>\n

It came months after another racist post<\/a> by the president that showed the couple as primates in a jungle. That one was deleted after stiff, bipartisan backlash.<\/p>\n

The latest image shows the Obamas smiling and waving at the top of stairs alongside a baby blue and white presidential plane with graffiti painted on it that included the Democrat\u2019s campaign slogan \u201cYes We Can,\u201d \u201cObama\u201d and \u201cBLM,\u201d short for Black Lives Matter. The post also shows graffiti in Arabic on the plane that says the phrase \u201calhamdulillah,\u201d which means \u201cpraise be to God\u201d or \u201cthank God.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump has a yearslong record of intensely personal criticism of the Obamas, and of using incendiary, sometimes racist, rhetoric. That includes everything from feeding the lie that Obama was not born in the United States to crude generalizations about majority-Black countries and posts that have sparked anger on his Truth Social website.<\/p>\n

\u25b6 Read more<\/a><\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s administration won\u2019t seek new bids to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool<\/p>\n

The Trump administration will not seek new bids to repair the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum<\/a> said Sunday as he faced new questions about the troubled project and the taxpayer money involved.<\/p>\n

Like Trump<\/a>, Burgum said he was 100% sure that vandals caused the damage<\/a> to the century-old Reflecting Pool on the National Mall. Trump has charged that a 350-foot gash was cut into the pool\u2019s liner in the midst of recent renovations, while Burgum described it as multiple cuts adding up to that figure. He also said the pool would have to be at least partially drained in the coming week to finish the repairs.<\/p>\n

The repairs will not be opened up to new contractors, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll use the same company, because they did a fantastic job,\u201d Burgum told CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union.\u201d \u201cThankfully, the vandalism was small. It was bad. I mean, it could cost tens of thousands of dollars to repair, so then it could fall into a felony … just like damaging any other government property could. But the job that was done to fix the Reflecting Pool was done extremely well.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u25b6 Read more<\/a><\/p>\n

Trump to meet with Ukraine\u2019s Zelenskyy and Syria\u2019s al-Sharaa during the NATO summit <\/p>\n

President Donald Trump<\/a> plans to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a> and Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa on Wednesday while attending the NATO summit in Turkey, the White House said. Those discussions will come as Kyiv tries to refocus Trump\u2019s attention on the conflict with Moscow<\/a> and as Trump has publicly mused about Syria\u2019s role<\/a> in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

White House spokesperson Anna Kelly confirmed the meetings in a call with reporters while previewing the upcoming summit in Ankara<\/a>, where Trump also plans to meet with Turkey\u2019s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan<\/a> on Tuesday. Before returning to the United States on Wednesday, Trump is scheduled to have a news conference, Kelly said.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s meeting with Zelenskyy comes as Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine is now in its fifth year. Both Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin held phone calls with Trump on Saturday, congratulating him on the July Fourth commemoration of the 250th anniversary of American independence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u25b6 Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump is responding to global outrage over his intervention with FIFA during the World Cup. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[605,989,197,1829,196,27394,81,549,2423,95,782,771,82],"class_list":["post-193119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-syria","tag-a","tag-diplomacy","tag-general-news","tag-international-agreements","tag-iran-war","tag-p","tag-politics","tag-sports","tag-stocks-and-bonds","tag-syria","tag-u-s-news","tag-washington-news","tag-world-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116874577363816235","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}