Trump on red card: 'Yes, I asked for a review from FIFA'

[0:00] phone calls of Johnny Infantino about the red card, and no one was appealing the decision. [0:04] You're asking me about the whole soccer thing? So, yeah, I did. I spoke to Johnny, who's [0:09] highly respected, who's produced the most successful World Cup in history by, they say, [0:15] four times. This isn't just a success. I actually said, Johnny, we've got all these games. Each one [0:23] is turning out to be a Super Bowl, and we have all these games. You know, when you think of it, [0:27] every game is like a Super Bowl. Yes, I watched last night. What a game that was with Mexico and [0:33] England. I mean, two countries. I don't know the players, although I think Kane is a great player. [0:39] See, I played golf with him, and I like him a lot. He's a good golfer, too. But he's really great. [0:46] But I watched, and no reason for me to watch, and you couldn't take your eyes off the game, [0:53] because I said, Johnny, you know, you have all these games because they edit games. [0:56] In a country where really we don't, it's not our main sport, to put it mildly. And this has been [1:02] four times more success. He told me last night the numbers are four times greater. They think 50 or [1:08] 60 million people are going to be watching the game tonight. I mean, you know, these are getting [1:11] to be Super Bowl numbers. But you have a game tonight, and they think they were, they're projecting [1:17] a minimum of 50 million people watching a game. We call it soccer. It's called football, I guess, [1:23] but we can't really call it football because it gets a little, there's a little confusion. So yeah, [1:27] you call it soccer. We're the only ones to do that. But we are football, and football's great. [1:32] But I've never seen anything like it. So I saw the play, and I'm a person that loves sports and was [1:39] a good athlete. And I understand sports really well, really well. And that wasn't a foul. That wasn't [1:48] even an infraction. That was two guys running full speed that happened to crash into each other. [1:53] You can't take your foot and properly place it on somebody else's foot when you're going. No, [1:59] these were two great athletes that got tangled up. And this referee who is a little bit suspect [2:10] if you check his, if you check his past. I don't want to say that because I don't like to create [2:16] controversy. But, but very suspect. If you'd like, I'll provide you with the past. [2:23] He made a call that nobody could believe, you know, even people on the other side. They said, [2:29] oh, we got lucky. Wow. That's, and it's very interesting. They say they don't show them in [2:34] slow motion. And I never realized that. I'd never heard of that before, that they're not allowed to [2:38] review in slow motion because it's so different because you'll take one little quarter of a second [2:43] and you'll see that a hand is touching a neck or you see something. Whereas when you see it in [2:48] fast motion, it will look like two guys collided, which is really what happened. They got sort of [2:55] entangled. He didn't do anything wrong. And he's our best player or one of our best players, a very [3:00] vital player. And he gave him a red card. I didn't know what that meant. I didn't think it meant much. [3:05] Then I started hearing that that means he can't play in the next game, at least in the next game. [3:11] I said, boy, that's a big, you know, if it happened to another player, it would have been unfair. But [3:17] when they take your best player or just about, they have some great players, but, and they say [3:22] you can't play. That's very unfair. That's, you know, it's one thing to penalize somebody for the [3:29] game, but how do you penalize them for a game that hasn't been played yet? It's very unfair. You [3:34] can't do that. So yes, I asked for a review by FIFA. I spoke to a man who's highly respected. And by the [3:43] way, whose level of respect has gone up tenfold. And he was good before this started. But, [3:50] you know, he really pushed it in this country. I'm the one that got them to do it. It was not [3:54] Biden. Biden was asleep. I got him to do it. In fact, it was very sad because I got him to do it. [4:00] And if the progression was normal, I would have been retired. Now, the Democrats are saying, [4:07] man, we should have just let him have his way. We would have had him gone. But I said, you know, [4:13] the saddest thing is I got the Olympics and I got the World Cup. I tried to claim 250 years too, [4:20] but that didn't work. They said, that one is what it is. No, I tried, but it didn't work. [4:25] But wait, wait. So I got him. I was so proud of it. And then I realized, you know, [4:30] I wouldn't be president during that because I would have been out of office by that time. I felt [4:34] badly. The beautiful thing about what I did is I ran. I never thought of it. And then all of a sudden, [4:40] I realized, you know, I just got the Olympics and I totally got that myself. And I just got FIFA. [4:46] I got that myself. We gave a little piece to Canada, gave a little piece to Mexico. [4:50] I got that myself. And a lot of, and a lot of people helped like that man right there, Kevin, [4:55] a lot of people, you know that we worked hard on that and we got it. And, but what we didn't know [5:01] is how successful it was going to be. I thought, I didn't know. I said, Johnny, [5:05] is anyone going to show up? Because, you know, we're not, again, we're not really, [5:09] I think, I think soccer is doing much better, but I couldn't imagine if, if you would have said to [5:15] any very smart of these, like people like this, that the numbers they're doing now would be [5:23] happening. They've never seen anything like it. Think of it. Take the most successful Olympics [5:28] or the most successful FIFA. And you look at what's happened. You look at the numbers for this [5:34] in the United States, just compared to FIFA. And it's, it's numerous times more. It's not like 10% [5:43] more, 2% more, 5% more, which is more expected. It's like four times more successful than anything [5:51] they've ever done. In fact, I said to Johnny, let's do it again next time. And he said, that would be [5:59] hard. I said, no, no, you do it again. But at the same time, you give it to somebody else for the next [6:05] one. I don't know. It's a little crazy idea. But all I did, all I did, I asked for a review because [6:11] I didn't think it was a foul. And, you know, again, I'm good at this stuff. I didn't think it [6:15] was a foul. I thought it was two great athletes that crashed into each other and got entangled. [6:20] That was not a, that was not a guy punching somebody in the face or anything that, you know, [6:24] would be different. And I think it's, I think it's a terrible, if they wouldn't allow, you know, [6:31] a top player, maybe the best, maybe among the best players on the team to play. I think it would [6:38] have had a big stain. And I related just that feel. I didn't tell him what to do. I can't tell [6:43] him what to do. But, and I don't believe he made the decision. I think it was a committee that made [6:49] the decision and they made the right decision because number one, it wasn't a foul. And you want [6:54] to see a game with your best players. You don't want to say, how would you feel if I took, you know, [6:59] we take a messy out with low, you know, he ran into somebody or we took Ronaldo, Ronaldo, [7:08] you bunked into somebody. We're going to take you out of a game. He's great.