The world booed Trump off the stage

The final, which was designed to celebrate the triumph of the king, transformed into the specter of regicide. The people loudly booing Trump and Infantino were not “Antifa” but people wealthy and white enough to be there.

The emperor has no clothes. When Donald Trump grabbed the trophy to personally hand it to the captain of the world champion Spanish team, not only did Rodri motion for him to leave – making it clear he had no business even thinking about staying with the team for the celebratory photo – but the entire stadium began to boo. In the society of the spectacle, being expelled from the symbolic frame that captures the image of triumph is tantamount to decapitation for a king. This is especially true if we take into account how much the sovereign has invested in constructing this mythological framework in recent years, enabled by the total acquiescence of FIFA and its president, Gianni Infantino, who was still following him around like a lapdog on Sunday night.

It was supposed to be a night of absolute triumph for King Trump and Caudillo Infantino. But after countless side-by-side trips to the Gulf states – the major financial backers of FIFA and the political sponsors of the United States’ endless wars – and after awarding Trump the absurd “FIFA Peace Prize,” the narrative finally unraveled. Following a tournament marked by visas denied to referees, officials and fans, by Iran’s forced exile to Mexican territory and by a pricing policy more exclusionary than ever, the farce continued with the revocation by royal decree........

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