You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load.Credit...Al Drago for The New York TimesAndrew Giuliani, the son of Rudy and a longtime Trump loyalist, is overseeing American hosting duties for the World Cup next month. It’s a big promotion.Credit...Al Drago for The New York TimesListen · 21:13 min May 19, 2026Andrew Giuliani was haggling in a Florida hospital room, defending his presence to his recently comatose father — a man so stricken a short time earlier that a priest had been called.At least dad sounded like himself again.“What are you doing here?” former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani asked after waking earlier this month, according to Andrew Giuliani, who had scrambled south from Washington, where he holds a senior federal post conferred by a president whom he has described as a second father figure. “You’ve got to get your ass back up to D.C.”Five weeks remained before the highest-stakes professional moment of Andrew Giuliani’s zigzagging, sometimes painful, increasingly consequential public life.And President Trump had made his own expectations clear.“You better do well, Andrew,” he said for the cameras last year, after making Mr. Giuliani the top-ranking administration official who once smiled at the boss through baby teeth.ImageAndrew Giuliani, second from left, with President Trump and others in the Oval Office in November. Mr. Trump had told Mr. Giuliani “you better do well.”Credit...Allison Robbert for The New York TimesMr. Giuliani, 40, is the executive director of the White House Task Force on the FIFA World Cup 2026 — the nation’s steward for what he has billed, with Trumpian (and not inaccurate) flair, as “the largest sporting event in the history of the world,” which begins next month.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT