However, a comment he made later suggested he would have tried to put his thumb on the World Cup scale even if FIFA didn’t reverse the call.
“The game tonight is going to be amazing,” he said. “And we’re going to have a full team, and Belgium is going to have a full team, and you know what? If they beat us, then they can be really proud. The other way, if they beat us, I say it was rigged, just like the election was rigged in 2020.”
Considering Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was rigged have been debunked repeatedly, many people had thoughts about his open admission that he would’ve tried to influence the game regardless of FIFA’s decision.