'HORRIBLE'!: Trump reveals what he told FIFA after US World Cup controversy

[0:00] I wanted to ask you, can you just get your phone call with Johnny Infantino about the red card? [0:04] And Belgium is fulfilling the decision. [0:05] You're asking me about the whole soccer thing? [0:07] So, yeah, I did. [0:09] I spoke to Johnny, who's highly respected, [0:12] who's produced the most successful World Cup in history by, they say, four times. [0:18] This isn't just a success. [0:20] I actually said, Johnny, we've got all these games. [0:24] Each one is turning out to be a Super Bowl. [0:26] And we have all these games. [0:28] You know, when you think of it, every game is like a Super Bowl. [0:30] Yes, I watched last night. [0:32] What a game that was with Mexico and England. [0:36] I mean, two countries. [0:37] I don't know the players. [0:39] Although I think Kane is a great player. [0:41] See, I played golf with him, and I like him a lot. [0:42] He's a good golfer. [0:44] But he's really great. [0:48] But I watched, and no reason for me to watch, [0:51] and you couldn't take your eyes off the game. [0:54] Because I said, Johnny, you know, you have all these games because they edit games. [0:57] In a country where really we don't, it's not our main sport, to put it mildly. [1:03] And this has been four times more success. [1:05] You told me last night, the numbers are four times greater. [1:09] They think 50 or 60 million people are going to be watching the game tonight. [1:12] I mean, you know, these are getting to be Super Bowl numbers. [1:14] But you have a game tonight, and they think they're projecting a minimum of 50 million people watching. [1:21] A game, we call it soccer. [1:23] It's called football, I guess. [1:24] But we can't really call it football because it gets a little, there's a little confusion. [1:28] So, yeah, you call it soccer. [1:30] We're the only ones that do that. [1:31] But we have football. [1:32] And football is great. [1:34] But I've never seen anything like it. [1:35] So, I saw the play, and I'm a person that loves sports and was a good athlete. [1:41] And I understand sports really well, really well. [1:46] And that wasn't a foul. [1:49] That wasn't even an infraction. [1:51] That was two guys running full speed that happened to crash into each other. [1:54] You can't take your foot and properly place it on somebody else's foot when you're going. [2:00] No, these were two great athletes that got tangled up, and this referee, who is a little bit suspect, if you check his past. [2:15] I don't want to say that because I don't like to create controversy, but very suspect. [2:22] If you'd like, I'll provide you with the past. [2:25] He made a call that nobody could believe. [2:28] You know, even people on the other side, they say, oh, we got lucky. [2:32] Wow, that's... [2:33] And it's very interesting. [2:34] They say they don't show them in slow motion. [2:36] And I never realized that. [2:37] I'd never heard of that before, that they're not allowed to review in slow motion because it's so different. [2:42] Because you'll take one little quarter of a second, and you'll see that a hand is touching a neck or you'll see something. [2:49] Whereas when you see it in fast motion, it will look like two guys collided, which is really what happened. [2:54] They got sort of entangled. [2:57] He didn't do anything wrong. [2:58] And he's our best player or one of our best players, a very vital player. [3:03] And he gave him a red card. [3:04] I didn't know what that meant. [3:05] I didn't think it meant much. [3:06] Then I started hearing that that means he can't play in the next game, at least in the next game. [3:13] I said, boy, that's a big... [3:15] You know, if it happened to another player, it would have been unfair. [3:18] But when they take your best player or just about, they have some great players, but... [3:23] And they say you can't play. [3:26] That's very unfair. [3:27] That's, you know, it's one thing to penalize somebody for the game. [3:32] But how do you penalize them for a game that hasn't been played yet? [3:34] It's very unfair. [3:35] You can't do that. [3:36] So, yes, I asked for a review by FIFA. [3:40] I spoke to a man who's highly respected and, by the way, whose level of respect has gone up tenfold. [3:49] And he was good before this started. [3:50] But, you know, he really pushed it in this country. [3:53] I'm the one that got them to do it. [3:55] It was not Biden. [3:57] Biden was asleep. [3:58] I got him to do it. [3:59] In fact, it was very sad because I got him to do it. [4:01] And if the progression was normal, I would have been retired. [4:07] Now, the Democrats are saying, man, we should have just let him have his way. [4:11] We would have had him gone. [4:13] But I said, you know, the saddest thing is I got the Olympics and I got the World Cup. [4:18] I tried to claim 250 years, too, but that didn't work. [4:23] They said, that one is what it is. [4:25] No, I tried, but it didn't work. [4:26] But wait, wait. [4:27] So I got him. [4:28] I was so proud of it. [4:29] And then I realized, you know, I wouldn't be president during that because I would have been out of office by that time. [4:35] I felt badly. [4:36] The beautiful thing about what I did is I ran. [4:39] I never thought of it. [4:41] And then all of a sudden I realized, you know, I just got the Olympics and I totally got that myself. [4:46] And I just got FIFA. [4:47] FIFA, I got that myself. [4:48] We gave a little peace to Canada, gave a little peace to Mexico. [4:51] I got that myself. [4:53] And a lot of people helped, like that man right there, Kevin. [4:57] A lot of people, you know that. [4:58] We worked hard on that. [5:00] And we got it. [5:01] But what we didn't know is how successful it was going to be. [5:04] I thought, I didn't know. [5:06] I said, Johnny, is anyone going to show up? [5:08] Because, you know, we're not, again, we're not really, I think soccer is doing much better. [5:13] But I couldn't imagine. [5:14] If you would have said to any very smart of these, like people like this, that the numbers [5:22] they're doing now would be happening, they've never seen anything like it. [5:26] Think of it. [5:27] Take the most successful Olympics or the most successful FIFA and you look at what's happened. [5:34] You look at the numbers for this in the United States, just compared to FIFA, and it's numerous [5:42] times more. [5:43] It's not like 10% more, 2% more, 5% more, which is more expected. [5:48] It's like four times more successful than anything they've ever done. [5:53] And in fact, I said to Johnny, let's do it again next time. [5:59] And he said, that would be hard. [6:01] I said, no, no, you do it again. [6:02] But at the same time, you give it to somebody else for the next one. [6:06] I don't know. [6:07] It's a little crazy idea. [6:08] But all I did, all I did, I asked for a review because I didn't think it was a foul. [6:14] And, you know, again, I'm good at this stuff. [6:16] I didn't think it was a foul. [6:17] I thought it was two great athletes that crashed into each other and got entangled. [6:21] That was not a guy punching somebody in the face or anything that, you know, would be [6:26] different. [6:27] And I think it's a terrible, if they wouldn't allow, you know, a top player, maybe the best, [6:36] maybe among the best players on the team to play, I think it would have had a big stain. [6:42] And I related just that feeling. [6:43] I didn't tell him what to do. [6:44] I can't tell him what to do. [6:45] But, and I don't believe he made the decision. [6:49] I think it was a committee that made the decision. [6:51] And they made the right decision because, number one, it wasn't a foul. [6:55] And you want to see a game with your best players. [6:57] You don't want to say, how would you feel if I took, you know, we take Messi out. [7:03] Look, you know, he ran into somebody. [7:06] Or we took Ronaldo. [7:08] Ronaldo, you bunked into somebody. [7:11] We're going to take you out of a game. [7:12] He's great. [7:13] Well, Harry Kane. [7:14] Harry Kane, we're going to take you out of the game, Harry. [7:16] Because you happen to hit somebody a little bit harder than, you can't, you can't do that. [7:22] If you would have taken him out, I think, I think it would have really stained this incredible [7:27] champion. [7:28] We got to have our best players. [7:29] And they've got, Belgium's got a great team, by the way. [7:32] We got to have our best players. [7:34] And they have to have their best. [7:35] And if we win or we lose, it's fair. [7:38] Otherwise, let's say we lost him and we lose the game. [7:43] It would be a terrible thing. [7:45] So I think they made a really brilliant decision. [7:48] I think the referee's call was horrible. [7:50] And nobody talks about that. [7:51] They talk about the red card like it's fine. [7:54] Nobody talks. [7:54] The referee's decision to red card. [7:57] I didn't know what the hell a red card was. [7:59] When I found out, I said, you've got to be kidding. [8:01] This guy just hands up. [8:02] Okay, your best player is not going to play next week or in the next game. [8:07] I said, wow, that's a lot of power. [8:09] That's terrible. [8:10] But then I looked at his past and it wasn't so great. [8:15] Okay. [8:18] I didn't think of it, but I would. [8:24] He's a good man. [8:24] I will tell you this. [8:28] The people in Belgium, if they win the game, they can be very proud. [8:34] If they would win the game with a player missing, it would have been a different feeling. [8:40] You can't do that. [8:41] And I'm very glad. [8:43] All I did was ask for a review. [8:45] I didn't say you have to do this. [8:46] This man is a smart, tough man. [8:48] Johnny Infantino. [8:50] He's a smart, tough man. [8:52] And his stock has gone through the roof because the job he's done has been great. [8:57] And I feel we have to have all the best players in the field. [9:01] You can't take the best players. [9:02] Yeah, please. [9:02] Be sure to like and subscribe for all the Fox News latest on YouTube and catch full shows [9:08] streaming now on Fox One.