Usually, the host nation of a tournament like the World Cup accrues a huge amount of goodwill from fans around the world.
People enjoy tournaments; visiting fans grow to like the cities they’re staying in and become fond of the people they meet. Visitors will often root for the home team, even when it’s America.
Yet Donald Trump has single-handedly taken all of that goodwill and fed it into a shredder.
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Last night, when the USA played Belgium in Seattle, he had managed to unite the world in rooting for the European team against the co-hosts. And the Belgians did not fail to deliver.
