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无论哪支球队闯入世界杯决赛，7月19日在美国新泽西州举行的奖杯颁发仪式上，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普都可能陷入尴尬境地。
特朗普曾向本届赛事中的一个国家发动战争，还与多个国家展开口水战。他侮辱过多国的民众或领导人。他试图干涉南美国家的选举，对全球各经济体加征关税，并凭借“美国优先”的外交政策重塑世界秩序，同时打破了诸多旧有盟友关系。
尽管美国男足在小组赛阶段表现亮眼，让外界对其抱有期待，但美国队夺冠的可能性依然微乎其微。不过如果美国人最终夺冠，这支队伍的核心成员中会有多名移民球员。两场比赛过后的队内头号射手福洛林·巴洛贡，其尼日利亚母亲怀着7个月身孕的他时，因无法离开纽约而让他获得了美国出生公民权。他大部分人生在英国度过，目前效力于法国顶级联赛的摩纳哥俱乐部，但凭借出生地国籍规则可以代表美国参赛。
美国宪法第十四修正案保护了所有在美国出生的人获得公民身份的权利，但由保守派主导的美国最高法院目前正在裁决特朗普是否可以废除这项条款。如果特朗普得偿所愿，巴洛贡届时将只能为尼日利亚或英格兰队效力。
他曾向伊朗开战，尽管伊朗队在本届赛事中遭遇了额外限制，但该队至今仍未被淘汰。
他称夺冠热门西班牙是“恐怖秀”，只因该国反对他对伊朗发动战争，并威胁要切断与该国的所有贸易往来。澳大利亚是特朗普点名指责没有协助美国对伊朗开战的多个国家之一——尽管他在与以色列一同发动对伊战争前，并未试图组建作战联盟。
他与北约反复无常的关系让作为足球世界权力中心的西欧多国人心惶惶。
他曾将北约总部所在地比利时首都布鲁塞尔称为“地狱之地”。
他吐槽挪威是“笑话”，只因自己没能获得诺贝尔和平奖。国际足联（足球管理机构）反倒为他颁发了一个象征性的和平奖。
法国和德国领导人曾左右为难，既要时常安抚特朗普，又不愿疏远美国。与此同时，特朗普的盟友还与欧洲极右翼政党建立了联系。
他似乎对英国首相近期下台一事幸灾乐乐祸，而英国包括英格兰和苏格兰，他在当地拥有一座高尔夫球场，这座球场也让他对海上风力发电等可再生能源产生了反感。
他在第一任期内曾将海地和非洲国家称为“粪坑国家”，并在2024年总统竞选期间散布虚假阴谋论，声称海地寻求庇护者食用了俄亥俄州民众的宠物。如今，立场保守的美国最高法院将允许他驱逐那些曾在美国获得临时合法身份的海地人。
他还通过加征关税、修建边境墙以及反复威胁要削弱加拿大主权等方式，刁难本届赛事的联合东道主墨西哥和加拿大。
他还企图夺回吉米·卡特总统时期归还巴拿马的巴拿马运河。
他通过向阿根廷提供救助贷款，为其好友总统哈维尔·米莱助选，以此干涉南美政治。美国与巴拉圭也保持着类似的友好关系，有报道称美国认为该国具备发展数据中心项目的潜力。美国与厄瓜多尔关系同样友好，美军曾参与该国的缉毒行动。
但他对巴西加征了40%的关税，以此惩罚其好友前总统雅伊尔·博索纳罗的反对者。博索纳罗目前因未遂政变被判处27年监禁。
他在本月哥伦比亚大选期间支持该国极右翼反对党，该党领导人阿瓦拉多·德拉埃斯普列利亚拥有哥伦比亚和美国双重国籍，在目前势均力敌的首轮计票中处于领先位置。
他在椭圆形办公室指责南非总统“迫害”白人农场主。尽管特朗普几乎切断了全球各地民众赴美寻求庇护的途径，但特朗普政府曾接纳过南非白人。
椭圆形办公室的会面对到访的各国领导人而言往往是一场考验。今年特朗普在迎接日本新首相时，还拿珍珠港事件开过玩笑。
美国在加纳的政策似乎出现反转。拜登政府曾反对当地的反 LGBTQ+ 法案，而特朗普政府却对上月通过的相关法案保持沉默，该法案不仅将 LGBTQ+ 身份认定行为入刑，还将为 LGBTQ+ 群体发声的行为一并定罪。特朗普政府同样没有谴责塞内加尔通过的类似法案，这导致部分活动人士指责美国助长了部分非洲国家的反同性恋氛围。
刚果民主共和国目前正处于埃博拉疫情之中，这引发了人们对特朗普第二任期初期美国削减对外援助的担忧。
美国驻萨拉热窝大使馆在与欧洲国家发生外交争端后，曾威胁重新考虑美国在该地区的角色，小唐纳德·特朗普还会见了曾被波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那政府制裁的分离主义领导人。
最高法院此前驳回了相关诉求，但特朗普在2025年推行的大规模“互惠关税”政策，给波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那以及 tiny 突尼斯带来了极大的压力。
尽管沙特阿拉伯存在人权问题，但特朗普与该国王室关系密切。不过，美国与伊朗在瑞士日内瓦举行的谈判让海湾国家中的沙特等国深感担忧。此外，他近期呼吁更多中东国家加入《亚伯拉罕协议》，与以色列实现关系正常化，这引发了部分国家的不安，也给沙特、约旦、埃及和卡塔尔带来了意想不到的压力。
美国作为超级大国拥有广泛的影响力，但特朗普版本的外交政策尽管符合其优先事项和交友原则，也在全球范围内引发了诸多尴尬。不过，如果有球队能够举起奖杯，恐怕大多数球员都不会想这些烦心事。
Trump will present the World Cup trophy. It could be VERY awkward
2026-06-25T23:17:57.145Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/25/politics/trump-present-world-cup-trophy
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No matter who is in the final World Cup match, there could be some awkwardness in New Jersey on July 19 when US President Donald Trump presents the trophy.
Trump has made war on one country in the tournament and verbal war on many others. He has insulted the people or its leaders of multiple others. He’s tried to influence elections in South America, imposed tariffs on economies everywhere, and broken old bonds as he’s tried to remake the world order with an America First foreign policy.
It is still a longshot for the US to win, although the US Men’s National Team is daring people to believe with a commanding group stage performance. But if Americans do win, it will be thanks to a team with multiple immigrant players. The team’s top scorer after two games is Folarin Balogun, whose Nigerian mother was seven months pregnant with him when she became unable to leave New York. He lived most of his life in the UK and plays professionally for Monaco in the top French league, but is able to represent the US because of birthright citizenship.
The right of anyone born in the US to be a US citizen is protected by the 14 th Amendment, but the conservative-dominated Supreme Court is currently deciding if Trump can invalidate it anyway. If Trump has his way, Balogun would be playing for Nigeria or England.
He made war on Iran, which has not yet been eliminated from the World Cup despite its team facing extra restrictions during the tournament.
He called top contender Spain a “horror show” for its opposition to his war on Iran and threatened to cut off all trade with the country. Australia is one of multiple countries Trump called out by name for not helping in the Iran war – even though he did not try to build a coalition for the war before launching it alongside Israel.
His mercurial relationship with NATO has much of Western Europe, the soccer world’s power center, on edge.
He once called Belgium capital Brussels, home of NATO, a hell hole.
He said Norway is a “joke” because he didn’t get the Nobel Peace Prize. FIFA, soccer’s governing body, gave him a consolation peace prize of their own.
Leaders of France and Germany have squirmed as they frequently tried to placate Trump without alienating the US. All the while Trump’s allies have made ties with far-right parties in Europe.
He seemed to delight in the recent political demise of United Kingdom’s prime minister, which includes England and Scotland, where he owns a golf course that helped spark his disdain for renewable energy like offshore wind farms.
He called Haiti and African nations “shithole countries” during his first term and during the 2024 presidential campaign he spread a false conspiracy theory about Haitian asylum seekers eating the pets of Ohioans. Now the conservative-leaning US Supreme Court will allow him to deport Haitians who had temporarily legal status in the US.
He’s poked at fellow host nations Mexico and Canada with tariffs, a border wall, and a recurring threat to take Canada’s sovereignty.
He wants to reclaim the Panama Canal, which was given back to Panama by Jimmy Carter.
He’s meddled in South American politics by offering Argentina a bailout to give his friend President Javier Milei a boost. The US has a similarly friendly relationship with Paraguay, where reports have suggested the US sees potential for data center projects. The US is also friendly with Ecuador, where the US military has been involved in drug raids.
But he imposed 40% tariffs on Brazil to punish the opponent of his friend former President Jair Bolsonair. Bolsonaro is serving a 27-year prison sentence for an attempted coup.
He endorsed the far-right opposition party in Colombia’s elections this month and its leader, Abelardo de la Espriella, who is a dual Colombia-US citizen, leads in the first count of a razor-tight runoff.
He accused South Africa’s president of “genocide” against White farmers in the Oval Office. While Trump has cut off paths to asylum in the US for much of the world, the Trump administration has welcomed White South Africans.
Oval Office meetings are something of a test for visiting world leaders. Trump made a joke about Pearl Harbor when he welcomed Japan’s new leader this year.
The US appears to be reversing course in Ghana. Where the Biden administration had opposed local anti-LGBTQ laws, the Trump administration stayed sileng on a law passed last month that includes prison time for people who are LGBTQ and also for people who advocate for those who are LGBTQ. It also did not condemn a similar law passed in Senegal, leading some activists to accuse the US of helping foster the anti-gay atmosphere in some African countries.
Democratic Republic of Congo is the site of an Ebola outbreak, which has raised questions about US foreign aid cuts early in Trump’s second term.
The US Embassy in Sarajevo threatened to reconsider the US role in the area after a diplomatic dispute with European countries and Donald Trump Jr. Visited a separatist leader who had previously been sanctioned by the government of Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The Supreme Court struck them down, but Trump’s sweeping “reciprocal tariffs” in 2025 put inordinate pressure on Bosnia-Herzegovina and tiny Tunisia.
Trump has warm relations with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, despite the country’s human rights issues, although they are among the Gulf states watching with concern as the US negotiates with Iran, which have taken place in Geneva, Switzerland. Separately, his recent call for more Middle Eastern countries to join the Abraham Accords and normalize relations with Israel has caused some consternation and put some unexpected pressure on the Saudis, Jordan, Egypt and Qatar.
The US is a superpower with wide influence, but Trump’s version of foreign policy, while it does recognize his priorities and friendships, also creates some awkwardness around the world. Not that many players will be thinking about that if they’re able to hoist the trophy.