The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/09/26/trump-now-threatening-to-move-world-cup-games-out-of-dangerous-sf-bay-and-seattle/It could be an empty threat and more blowhard BS from President Donald Trump, or it could be something he'll actually try. But Trump mentioned on Thursday that he might want to move next year's World Cup matches out of cities that are "even a little bit dangerous." Locally, there are six World Cup matches scheduled to be played at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara next June and July. And while Santa Clara is 45 miles south of San Francisco — which is not a dangerous city by any rational marker but which Trump continues to paint as a crime-ridden hellscape — it may not matter because it's the SF Bay Area and it's where the 49ers play and nobody w

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