FIFA’s controversial decision to suspend the red card of USMNT F Folarin Balogun -- and President Trump‘s involvement in having it suspended -- have driven the news cycle throughout Monday. As of Monday afternoon, the online homepages of CNN, NBC News, Fox News, ABC News, the AP, N.Y. Times, Washington Post and plenty other news organizations all featured the story prominently -- most often as the top news story (SBJ).
Columnists also continued to weigh in throughout the day on the saga:
- The Palm Beach Post’s Tom D’Angelo: Did Trump pressure FIFA? Balogun ban overturned before World Cup clash.
- The London Guardian’s Pablo Iglesias Maurer: Unwelcome and undue: Trump’s red-card intervention hurts the US’s World Cup more than it helps.
- The N.Y. Times’ Jeanna Smialek and Ali Watkins: Greenland, Tariffs, NATO and Now Soccer. Trump Creates a New Clash With Europe.
- Miami Herald’s Greg Cote: Folarin Balogun back for U.S. is Trump, politics invading this World Cup.
