Boston Mayor Michelle Wu responded to Donald Trump after he suggested Tuesday that he could pull 2026 World Cup games from Gillette Stadium over "unsafe conditions" in Massachusetts, citing recent street takeovers.
Wu appeared on a podcast on Wednesday and said it would be unlikely that the games could change venues so late in the process.
"Many, many months of planning now, much of it is locked down by contract, so no single person, even if they live in the White House currently, can undo it," Wu said.
On Wednesday, Trump doubled down on his suggestion to pull the games and on his attacks on Wu.
"Boston has a bad mayor who at least is a reasonable IQ person," Trump said. "She's got four areas that are wrong. Somebody said, would we think about taking the World Cup away from Boston if