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The Trump Suite

Columbia Journalism Review · Jon Allsop · last updated

Yesterday, President Trump attended the final of the Club World Cup, a soccer tournament featuring (as the name suggests) a selection of the best club teams in the world that doubled as a warmup event for the bigger, national-team version of the World Cup that the US will host with Mexico and Canada next summer. According to reports, Trump was joined in his suite by Rupert Murdoch, Pam Bondi, Sean Duffy, Kristi Noem, Gianni Infantino, and Tom Brady. As a cast of characters, it was exquisitely revealing of the impulses guiding Trump’s second term. It was also, in some ways, a dramatis personae for the current news cycle.

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