“We could take them away,” the president said Tuesday of games in Boston that he said were already sold out.
“If somebody is doing a bad job, and if I feel there’s unsafe conditions, I would call Gianni – the head of FIFA who’s phenomenal — and I would say, “Let’s move into another location” and they would do that.”
President Donald Trump meant FIFA head Gianni Infantino. He said Infantino “wouldn’t love to do it, but he’d do it very easily.”
The 2026 World Cup games scheduled in Massachusetts will be played in Foxborough at Gillette Stadium.
The president didn’t offer specifics, but suggested that crime threats were hurting Boston and that his administration could solve those.
He’s already deployed National Guard troops to Washington and Memphis, and Trump’s efforts to increase military presence in Chicago and Portland, Oregon, have sparked legal fights.
GBH News contributed reporting.