JD Vance attempted a charm offensive on Tuesday, and failed with the charm while succeeding in being offensive.
It happened during an announcement that former Donald Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani’s son, Andrew Giuliani, would be leading a task force for the 2026 World Cup, which will take place in the United States, Canada and Mexico next year.
Rather than stoke excitement for a global event that could be a tourism cash cow for North America, Vance decided to take a different approach — and joked about deporting the potential thousands of tourists visiting the U.S. for the occasion.
That’s for host countries that have to build stadiums. WC2026 is going to use existing stadiums in the US, Canada and Mexico, just like WC1994 the last time in the US. Not every WC is like Qatar that had to build all new stadiums for all the venues. It’s always preferable that a host country already has capable stadiums like WC2014 in Brazil or WC2006 in Germany.