Why the eff does the WH think it has a say about FIFA's Ethics rules?

[malaise]

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jul/18/white-house-backs-argentina-team-falklands-banner-world-cup-semi-final

The White House has backed Argentina’s footballers who displayed a banner supporting their country’s claim to the Falklands Islands after their World Cup semi-final victory against England.

In a fractious match in Atlanta on Wednesday, some players held up a banner after Argentina’s 2-1 win that said: “Las Malvinas son Argentinas” – using the country’s term for the South Atlantic islands.

Keir Starmer supported calls for Fifa to investigate the incident on Friday and appeared to back Spain ahead of the World Cup final against Argentina.

But Andrew Giuliani, the head of the White House Fifa taskforce, defended Argentina’s players, saying the US believed in free speech.
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I hate these people.
Go Spain!

[underpants]

1. They gave Trump a medal

Oh and just to set the record straight, Andrew Giuliani is by all accounts a major league asshole.

[Lovie777]

2. WH usually have a motive...................

they see potential ownership of the Islands. Yes, the WH will back stab Argentina.

As to free speech here in the USA, apparently free speech only pertains to who the WH feel deserves it which mean "them" and the cult only.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. I hope English supporters make a "he's fat, with piles, he's in the Epstein files" banner for today

if we're talking about free speech ...

[niyad]

4. Why the fuck is rudy ghouliani's son in charge of the wh fifa taskforce,

and WHY is there even such a task force? WHAT, EXACTLY, is its function?

[SheltieLover]

5. Function is the same as all kraznov regieme's initiatives: break the USA for pootin.

[niyad]

7. Sadly true.

[SheltieLover]

9. Yup. And every rethug in Congress is enabling his initiative!

Every. Single. One.

[Justice matters.]

20. Its function is to waste taxpayers money they don't pay. nt

[SheltieLover]

6. Of course the regieme backs Argentina, the most racist team in the tourney.

Not being into sports, I had no idea about Argentina's initiative in the 19th & 20th centuries to attract Southern Europeans to Argentina.

A friend enlightened me to the fact that Argentina is the only WC team to have no Black players. Grrrrrrr

She shared that many people are unaware of this because it happened so long ago, but the roots run deep.

GO SPAIN!!!!!

[malaise]

10. Racist to the core

Rec

[SheltieLover]

11. Sickening!

I hope Spain beats them 50 to nothing!

[Turbineguy]

8. An opinion from trump is considered a gift.

as is his full diaper.

[Johonny]

12. Because Trump is like the drunk guy at the bar

Given the biggest stage in the world. He thinks he knows everything, can fix everything, and every thought must be acknowledged.

[maxrandb]

13. Isn't Argentina the place with the weird combover vulgarian leader who was gifted a chainsaw by Eloon?

or is that just 'MuriKKKa?

Argentina, it was the Nazi Concentration Camp guards favorite destination after WWII, wasn't it?

The Nazis that didn't make it to Nuremberg made it to Buenos Aires.

[Jilly_in_VA]

14. Argentina is the most racist country in the Americas

Next to the US, that is. Have you nothiced that their team is all white? That's not an accident, people. Argentinians DO NOT LIKE people of other races. They have been very vocally nasty about Mexico, Colombia, and other Latino countries, to the point where fans from those nations were cheering for ENGLAND in that game and will likely cheer for spain in the champinship.

There's an old joke about Argentinians, told to me by a native Argentinian who was a flatmate of a guy I was dating at the time: "Argentinians are a bunch of Italians who speak Spanish, act like Germans, and wish to God they were British." (This was, of course, before both the Falklands War and Pope Francis, but I suspect it's still true from what I've seen at the World Cup)

[Initech]

17. 100% a fascist country will win.

[Initech]

15. Even more ironic is the least ethical administration in histroy lecturing others about ethics.

[Solly Mack]

16. It's not about supporting free speech. It's about supporting speech that attacks the people Trump wants to be attacked.

[MikeyDi]

18. FIFA has ethics rules?

Do FIFA members get that list after someone pricks their finger and burns a saint card in their hands?

You can do a lot of things.

But you cannot babyface FIFA under any circumstances. Trump versus FIFA is a fight where I’m cheering for the meteor.

I’m also strongly of the opinion that if you can’t talk insane shit over grudges that date back hundreds of years in international sports…..what’s even the point? Nationalism at sporting events should always be right in the cusp of violence. That makes them spicy.

[MikeyDi]

19. Also....hold on....Argentina was the bad guy in the Falkland's War

This is me being legitimately curious because I’ve given the Falklands War exactly 25 seconds of attention in my life.

[malaise]

21. Someone needs to explain how England owns

islands off Argentina.
That said eff both Argentina and Britain.

[MikeyDi]

22. So....we cheer for the sheep then?

I’m assuming we’re just all supposed to be mad at Rudy’s failson then?

I’m lost.