{"id":656271,"date":"2026-05-07T20:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T20:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/656271\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T20:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T20:56:11","slug":"world-cup-2026-i-wouldnt-pay-it-says-us-president-donald-trump-on-ticket-price-for-usa-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/656271\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026: ‘I wouldn’t pay it’, says US President Donald Trump on ticket price for USA game"},"content":{"rendered":"

United States President Donald Trump says he “wouldn’t pay it either” when asked about the potential $1,000 (\u00a3736) ticket price to watch his country play Paraguay in their 2026 World Cup opener.<\/p>\n

The competition starts on 11 June and the US, who are co-hosting the tournament with Canada and Mexico, will open their campaign in Los Angeles on 12 June.<\/p>\n

“I did not know that number,” Trump told The New York Post, external<\/a> when asked about fans having to pay $1,000 (\u00a3736) to watch the USA’s first Group D match.<\/p>\n

“I would certainly like to be there, but I wouldn’t pay it either, to be honest with you.”<\/p>\n

Fifa has been criticised for its “extortionate” pricing strategy for the 2026 World Cup for which, in a departure from recent tournaments, group-stage games were priced based on the perceived popularity of the teams involved, rather than a flat rate. <\/p>\n

Fans also face having to pay vastly inflated prices<\/a> for most games through Fifa’s official resale platform, while world football’s governing body is taking a 30% fee – 15% each from both the buyer and seller – of each ticket which is sold.<\/p>\n

“If people from Queens and Brooklyn and all of the people that love Donald Trump can’t go, I would be disappointed, but, you know, at the same time, it’s an amazing success,” added Trump. <\/p>\n

“I would like to be able to have the people that voted for me to be able to go.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United States President Donald Trump says he “wouldn’t pay it either” when asked about the potential $1,000 (\u00a3736)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-656271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}