United States President Donald Trump has said he would not pay the ticket prices for his nation\u2019s opening World Cup game next month.<\/p>\n
The US open their Group D campaign against Paraguay in Los Angeles on June 12th, with tickets reported to be priced at $1,000.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s comments come after FIFA president Gianni Infantino defended high ticket prices for this summer\u2019s tournament during an appearance at the Milken Institute Global Conference.<\/p>\n
At the event in Beverly Hills, Infantino addressed criticism that was directed at FIFA over the prices set and the use of dynamic pricing.<\/p>\n
In an interview with the New York Post, Trump said: \u201cI did not know that number.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would certainly like to be there, but I wouldn\u2019t pay it either, to be honest with you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speaking about prices, he added: \u201cI haven\u2019t seen that, but I would have to take a look at it.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf people from Queens and Brooklyn and all of the people that love Donald Trump can\u2019t go, I would be disappointed.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut, you know, at the same time, it\u2019s an amazing success.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would like to be able to have the people that voted for me to be able to go.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United States President Donald Trump has said he would not pay the ticket prices for his nation\u2019s opening…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-438166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}