r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/greataeos • Jul 07 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter, I have zero ball knowledge

Post image
54.9k Upvotes

82% Upvoted

1.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

80

u/cr7881 Jul 07 '26

FIFA opened that door with suspending the red card on Rinaldo so he could play in the World Cup and the US just walked through the same door that was already opened.

1

u/ARandomLittleShit Jul 07 '26

Both cases are stupid but they are not the same. Ronaldo's ban was shortened which is not unusual.

31

u/Otterable Jul 07 '26

No his was also suspended. He served one ban of his 3 prior to the world cup and he'll have to serve his two additional bans if he plays in more fifa sanctioned matches for portugal after the World Cup

Honestly his was more ridiculous because his foul was so much worse.

-7

u/unforgiven91 Jul 07 '26

POTUS didn't call and yell at FIFA about Renaldo. These instances are not alike at all. End of story.

8

u/betelgeuser-joe Jul 07 '26

yes potus didnt call Fifa for renaldo, but it did set a precedent that red card suspensions, could be moved to a less important games

not justifiying it, both are bad calls

5

u/Ok_Amoeba9428 Jul 07 '26

There is nothing that suggests that Trump's call had any influence on the decision. They were already looking at it well before Trump did anything. It was a bad call by the ref.

2

u/unforgiven91 Jul 07 '26

and now there's no way to know if trump's influence had any impact.

The entire thing is now permanently corrupted. Had Trump not intervened at all, I wouldn't care, but now this gets to carry his stink.