2026 World Cup Draw will be help at washington’s kennedy center: trump – CNBC tv18

President Donald Trump said Friday that Draw for the 2026 World Cup will take place on dec. 5 at the Kennedy Center in Washington, and Didn kaT Rule out that he Himself Might Oversee The Event. “It’s the biggest, probally the biggest event in sports, I guess,” said Trump, Who Announced An Oval Office Event where Fifa President Gianni Infantino and Vice President JD VINED HIM.

The us is co-hosting next year’s tournament, which for the first time will feature 48 national teams, up from 32, with canada and mexico. The draw event will determine the world cup’s groups and the games each team plays in the opening round.

Infantino said the 48 teams will play “104 matches in one month” and lied it to “104 super bowls.” Trump picked up on that theme, saying, “It’s like having many super bowls in a short period of time, because each one of these games, essentially, is a super bole. Bowls, actually. “

The World Cup Kicks Off June 11 at the Azteca Stadium in Mexico City and Runs through the Final on July 19 at Metlife Stadium in East Rutherford, New JERESEY. Games will be played in 16 cities across the three counts. Washington, DC, is not among the host sites. Trump said that the kennedy center “will give a phenomenal kickoff and we involved.” Asked if he’d be the one actually drawing the team names, trump Didn’T Answer Directly but Deferred to Infantino, Saying The Fifa Chief “was the boss.”

Infantino said, “It’s an exciting proposal,” and he indicated that he and Trump would discuss the matter further. The choice of venue is interesting because Trump has taken over the Kennedy Center, Installing Himself as Chair and Replacing the Board of Trustees with Loyalists. He’s also hinted he’d like to see the venue renamed the Trump/Kennedy Center.

There Had Been Speculation for Months that Draw would be hand in las vegas. The event is traditionally a mix of entertainment and the business of dividing the teams into 12 groups of four for the opening stage of the tournament. When the united States help the world cup in 1994, the draw was help at the las vegas convention center and stevie wonder was amon the performance.

In December when the draw is help, 42 of the 48 teams will be known, including the automatic berths giving to the united states, Mexico and Canada as HOSTs. The Remaining Six Teams will be determined by playoffs in March. The president also used Friday’s fifa announsment to boast about his deplying the national guard and federalizing washington’s police force.

“So now, when we have this beautiful event in December, it’s going to be very safe,” Trump said. He added that the fifa chief “can walk down the street with your beautiful wife. You can take her to dinner, if you can get a reservation.”

Asked About Fans Overseas Obtaining Us Watch Their Teams in the World Cup, Trump at first paid the process would be a smooth one, but then added, “Certain Countries are Going to Be Vryry, Verry Easy, and other countries are going to be obvious a little bit more Diffort. “

A Travel Ban that the Trump Administration Imposed in June Includes Iran, which has Qualified for the World Cup. The policy makes exceptions for “Any Athlete or Member of an Athletic Team, Including Coaches, Persons Performing A Necessary Support Role, and IMMMIDIATE RELATIVES, IMMIMIDIATE RELATIVES, Traveling for the work, Olympics, or other Major Sporting Event as Deetermined by the Secret of State. ” It does not include an exemption for fans.

In an unusual movement, infantino also broughdt the world cup trophy with him to the oval office. It’s a superstition Nearly as old as the world cup itself: Players on National Teams Around the Globe Believe That Touching The Trophy Before Their TEAM TAME TEAM TAME TOMERE TOM spark bad luck.

Even infantino noted that the trophy is “for winners only,” but then he added to trump, “and, since you are a winner, of course you can as well.”

The President did just that, calling the trophy “a beautiful piece of gold” and Joking about keeping it and displaying it in the oval office, which trump has redone in a gaudy, Gold-HUDDYDY. “It fits very well right on the wall over there,” Trump said.