{"id":812158,"date":"2026-07-20T11:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T11:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/812158\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T11:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T11:58:14","slug":"world-cup-player-appears-to-snub-trump-during-medal-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/812158\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup Player Appears To Snub Trump During Medal Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump<\/a> was on hand to give out medals and handshakes to both the winners and losers of Sunday\u2019s World Cup final at MetLife Stadium as Spain beat Argentina<\/a>, 1-0. <\/p>\n

But at least one player seemed to want nothing to do with the president. <\/p>\n

Argentina\u2019s Cristian Romero received his medal from FIFA President Gianni Infantino for his team\u2019s second-place finish in the tournament.<\/p>\n

He shook Infantino\u2019s hand, then skipped right past Trump on the receiving line: <\/p>\n

Romero also initially skipped past Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum<\/a>, who was standing after Trump in the receiving line, and shook the hand of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Sheinbaum is about 9 inches shorter than Romero and it seemed he didn\u2019t spot her at first. When he did, he turned back to shake her hand as well. <\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t do that for Trump. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s not clear if Romero was sending a political message, or if it was an unintentional snub in a fast-moving line during an emotional moment, given that his team just lost the championship match to Spain.<\/p>\n

Trump was also turned slightly away as Romero approached, getting a medal for the next player, and it\u2019s possible the player just kept moving. However, he appears to be the only one who didn\u2019t shake Trump\u2019s hand. <\/p>\n

Trump had another awkward moment<\/a> a few minutes later: After presenting the trophy to Spain, he stood with the players at the start of their celebration, until Infantino came back and helped him off the stage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump was on hand to give out medals and handshakes to both the winners and losers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,61101,70378,2490,596,13202,31866,85,21418],"class_list":["post-812158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-claudia-sheinbaum","tag-cristian-romero","tag-donald-trump","tag-football","tag-gianni-infantino","tag-mark-carney","tag-sports","tag-world-cup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812158","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=812158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}