What kind of host will Donald Trump be for the World Cup and Olympics?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

82% : Trump called Infantino "my great friend".
75% : "Trump has a great relationship with Saudi Arabia.
69% : "Trump has cultivated friendships with sports personalities and spent election night in the company of the NHL legend Wayne Gretzky, Dana White, CEO of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, and the 2024 US Open golf champion Bryson DeChambeau.
64% : Infantino added in his victory message to Trump.
62% : The Olympics and World Cup were awarded to the US during Trump's first term and he clearly feels a sense of ownership: as the Paris Games closed, Trump credited himself with securing the Olympics.
59% : "Like Trump, Infantino spends much of his time in Florida:
52% : Rory McIlroy expressed optimism this month that Trump can act as a peace broker between LIV and the PGA Tour.
47% : If Trump were to pressure Ukraine into a ceasefire in the war with Russia, Vladimir Putin may see an opening, perhaps with Trump's help, to push for Russia's reintegration into Fifa, Uefa and Olympic competitions.
45% : It was the latest example of Infantino's oleaginous flattery of Trump, whom in 2018 Infantino called "part of the Fifa team".
44% : Though Trump is a friend of Fifa, relations are considerably cooler between the president-elect and the IOC, which has not commented on his victory.
43% : He targeted two female boxing Olympic gold medallists in his election campaign, claiming they are men as a justification for his plan to revoke anti-discrimination measures issued by the Biden administration.
37% : Friction between Democrat-run cities and Republican state and national leaders is a feature of American politics and it is not hard to imagine a war of words breaking out between LA 2028 organisers and the White House given the $900m in federal infrastructure funds committed ahead of the Games and since California is a liberal state Trump has routinely assailed as a hellscape.
35% : These are all sections of society that Trump has attacked, whether through rhetoric, policy, or both.
33% : But Trump has sought to blur the lines between sport and politics, looking for confrontations with the NFL, NBA and the US women's soccer team over national anthem protests against civil rights abuses.
29% : In January 2020, during Trump's first impeachment trial, Infantino introduced him at a dinner for CEOs in Davos and said Trump had the same "fibre" as world-class footballers.
29% : Trump is also expected to roll back federal protections for gay and transgender people.
28% : But Trump has vowed to reinstate and expand his first-term "Muslim travel ban", which affected countries including Iran and Nigeria.
24% : Environmental goals are now routine for sporting events - LA wants to be "no car" - but it is hard to imagine a Republican administration will push organisers to keep their promises given that Trump has called climate change "a hoax" and intends to scupper clean energy projects.
20% : "Trump is a leader with authoritarian instincts who swept to power with a dark and violent vision of "a nation that is dying", calling the US "like a garbage can for the rest of the world to dump the people that they don't want".
16% : After some Christians criticised segments of the Paris Olympics opening ceremony as blasphemous, Trump labelled the show "a disgrace" and promised to prevent any sacrilegious content appearing in 2028.
11% : In 2020, Karen Bass, now the mayor of Los Angeles, called Trump a racist who "essentially [gives] license to racists".

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