“You have to go home”: Trump's WM -Ask Force Touts Welcome, warns visitor | World Cup 2026

US President Donald Trump called in the first meeting of the World Cup group of his government on Tuesday in a public event of his government, in which he announced that he did not know that Russia had been banished by FIFA competitions, and insisted that the tournament would go out without a follower.

Returned that the World Cup 2026, which is to be organized by the United States, Canada and Mexico, will be the “largest, most secure and extraordinary football tournament in history”, Trump continued to claim that the tournament “Tournament and a thousand of jobs for American workers” and “thousand of jobs for American workers” and “thousands of jobs for American workers would generate.

The FIFA President Gianni Infantino, who is sitting in front of the Trophy for this year's Club World Championship, later put specific numbers into these advantages: $ 50 billion in economic production and almost 300,000 jobs due to this year's tournament and next year next year.

Last year, numerous doubts about the United States' ability to play the tournament in 2026 smoothly. In particular, the government must process a very large number of visas for foreign visitors who will visit the combined states in good time.

In February it was said in a report by a non-profit company that represents the travel industry: “We are not ready to organize the upcoming mega decade of the events that will draw millions of domestic and international travelers”. These concerns have increased by the Trump government since the US government's mass dilution.

At the meeting on Tuesday, Kristi Noem, secretary of the home protection authority, said that 2 million foreign visitors would come to the USA for the tournament. When asked about the concerns at the Task Force meeting on Tuesday, Noem said that their department would work with the Foreign Ministry and the FBI to deal with the travel documents of the visitors and that it would be “smooth”. Noem appeared at the Task Force, which together with the former US Football Association President Carlos Cordeiro, the leading advisor of Infantino, gathered, from whom she said he was partly responsible for being processed in good time.

“America will welcome the world,” said Infantino. “Anyone who wants to come here to enjoy, have fun to celebrate the game will be able to do this.”

However, numerous jokes about the potential of visitors who have exceeded their reception – remarkably in the face of the recent government against immigrants and Green Card owners, to whom the illegal deporting in El Salvador was deported to a megaprison.

“We want you to come, we want you to celebrate, we want you to watch the game,” said Vice President JD Vance. “But when the time has expired, you have to go home. Otherwise you have to speak to secretary Noem.”

The World Cup could also have fans who want to move within the cities of the cities, since most in the United States do not have well -developed public transport options. The transport secretary Sean Duffy said that most of the problems between the stations would be solved by buses and that no long -lasting transit projects would remain due to the organization of the tournament.

“This is a short -term urge that people who see football games and then go home,” said Duffy, who encouraged visitors to take the World Cup as an opportunity to take a road trip in the USA. “But don't exceed your visa,” he said.

Trump denied that the recent tensions with Mexico and Canada would have an impact on the ability of the countries to organize the tournament together, and said that the matter was discussed with the newly elected Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney during his visit to the White House.

Trump was later asked for his thoughts on the ban on Russia from FIFA competitions due to her invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Trump said he didn't know that Russia was prohibited, turned to Infantino and asked if that was true.

“You have forbidden to play for now, yes,” said Infantino. “We hope something happens that peace will happen and Russia will then be displayed again.”