President Donald Trump on Thursday suggested he might seek to move games in the 2026 FIFA World Cup — one of the world’s biggest sporting events — away from some of the U.S. cities currently planning to host, due to his concerns about safety.
It would appear the president has something in common with TV producers, out-of-state NFL fans and others, conflating San Francisco, the city by the bay, with Santa Clara, the home of Levi’s Stadium , some 45 miles south, where the games are scheduled to take place in June and July next year.
But Trump’s comments that he might decide to move games out of cities he views as “even a little bit dangerous” created at least a little bit of concern about whether the schedule will stay as set.
Trump made the comment during a gathering of reporters in th