CNN’s Erin Burnett on Monday highlighted Donald Trump’s apparent lack of knowledge about soccer, despite his highly controversial intervention that saw the sport’s global governing body, FIFA, overturn US striker Folarin Balogun’s red-card suspension ahead of the Americans’ World Cup loss to Belgium. Burnett aired footage of Trump admitting to the red card: “I didn’t know what that meant.”
“I didn’t think it meant much,” admitted the president, who has confessed to asking FIFA for a review of the decision. He added: “Then I started hearing that that means he can’t play in the next game.”
Trump’s admission struck Burnett. “I mean, can we just take a pause to be like, he actually didn’t even know what a red card was, right?” she said. “So somebody told him about it and, ‘Oh, I guess I’ll just call my buddy, you know, who gave me the peace prize.’”
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FIFA’s Peace Prize-awarding President Gianni Infantino, of course, is a longtime Trump ally.
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Watch the segment here:
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This article originally appeared on HuffPost.
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