You will never guess what Knut Hamsun did with his Nobel Prize medal. María Corina Machado is desperate, but all that ever interested Donald Trump in Venezuela was control of where its oil went, and he has that. Half a billion dollars has already been deposited in Qatar.
Trump is the only holder of the FIFA Peace Prize, yet he has just blocked United States visas for citizens of 75 countries, including 15 that have qualified for the World Cup, from Brazil that has won more times than anywhere else, to Uzbekistan that has qualified for the first time. All three of Scotland's Group C opponents are under the ban: Brazil, Haiti, and Morocco, which in 1777 was the first country to recognise American independence, and in 1787 was the other party to the first international treaty contracted by the United States.
The line is that players and fans will be applying only for temporary business or tourist visas and will therefore be unaffected, as if that would cut any ICE. And having mentioned ICE, how could the World Cup be conducted in what was now the civil warzone of urban America? Even if that had de-escalated in two years' time, which seems the opposite of all likelihood, then would this visa ban still be in place, rendering the Los Angeles Olympics impossible? Trump would no doubt declare the Americans the winners by forfeit, and decorate them with gold medals that they would be expected to present back to him.
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