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'That Could Be A Good Incentive': President Trump Asked About Russia Being Banned From World Cup
Forbes Breaking News
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5/7/2025
President Trump held a meeting with the FIFA Task Force on Tuesday, where he was asked about Russia's involvement in the World Cup.
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Russia is banned from playing the next World Cup. What's your position on this?
00:04
Say it again?
00:05
Russia has been banned from playing the next World Cup. What's your position on this?
00:09
I didn't know that. Is that right?
00:12
That is right. They are banned for the time being, yeah, from playing.
00:16
But we hope that...
00:17
He's the boss. I'm not the boss on that.
00:19
We hope that something happens and peace will happen and then Russia can be readmitted.
00:25
So that's what we hope.
00:26
That's possible. Hey, that could be a good incentive, right?
00:29
We want to get them to stop. We want them to stop.
00:32
We want the 5,000 young people a week are being killed.
00:38
It's not even believable.
00:40
The Russian soldiers and the Ukrainian soldiers mostly.
00:43
Also people in towns every once every two weeks.
00:47
Horrible things going on over there.
00:49
So we're going to get that war stopped.
00:52
Okay.
00:52
When you were talking about all of the events that will be happening here in the U.S. over the next few years,
00:58
you mentioned the G7 and you said it used to be called the G8.
01:02
Yeah.
01:02
As the host country, you can actually invite Russia to the G7 plus one.
01:09
What's your thinking on that right now, Mr. President?
01:11
Well, Russia used to be a member of what was called then the G8 and I don't think I was really in politics at that point.
01:19
But I know that President Obama didn't like it and they voted Russia out.
01:25
I say if they didn't vote Russia out, which I thought was a very foolish decision because it's a group of people sitting around the table.
01:34
I've done it many times with them and you get to know them.
01:37
And I say that if it was the G8, if Russia were in it, I think you probably wouldn't have this ridiculous, deadly war going on right now.
01:45
I thought it was a very bad decision.
01:46
It was headed by Trudeau, by the way, and Obama.
01:50
They were the ones that really fought hard to get Russia out.
01:53
I think if Russia were in, you wouldn't be.
01:55
They threw them out.
01:57
And because of that, maybe millions of people are dying.
02:03
Millions, you know, millions.
02:04
The numbers are far greater than you think.
02:07
But millions of people are dying.
02:09
If he was sitting around a table with other people, seven people hammering him and saying, let's not do this.
02:16
I think you wouldn't probably have had the problems that you've had.
02:20
Will you make the push, Mr. President, to get Russia back into this group?
02:25
No, I think it's not good timing now.
02:28
No, right now, we missed that gate, didn't we, huh?
02:31
We missed that gate with another great decision by some people that shouldn't have been making decisions.
02:38
Yes, go ahead.
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