Donald Trump revealed that the 2026 FIFA World Cup draw will take place in Washington, DC during his surprise announcement on Friday.
Flanked by Vice President J.D. Vance and FIFA President Gianni Infantino, Trump said the draw will take place on December 5 of this year at the Kennedy Center.
He boasted that hosting the World Cup is ‘like having many Super Bowls in a short period of time,’ adding that it will bring a whopping $30 billion economic boom to the US.
The announcement comes as the FBI raid of former national security advisor John Bolton’s home enters its sixth hour.
Trump denied knowing about the FBI’s raid earlier in the day at a surprise visit to the White House Historical Association Museum.
Slamming his former aide as a ‘lowlife’ and ‘not a smart guy,’ Trump said: ‘He’s very bad at what he does.’
‘He doesn’t talk, he’s like a very quiet person except on television and then he can say something bad about Trump. He’ll always do that. But he doesn’t talk, he’s very quiet,’ Trump told reporters.
The raid at Bolton’s DC-area home is said to be tied to an investigation into his alleged use of classified documents in his 2020 memoir.
Bolton, who served as President Donald Trump’s NSA from April 2018 until September 2019, has been at odds with Trump ever since parting with the first administration.