In a sports-heavy Monday segment, Washington Post columnist, ESPN commentator, and professor Kevin Blackistone declared on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House declared that the state of human rights in the United States is so bad, we are unfit to host the World Cup and the Olympics. Additionally, liberal lawyer Marc Elias attacked Major League Baseball for returning its All-Star Game to Atlanta after removing it from there in 2021 when Georgia enacted “voter suppression laws.”
The genesis for the segment was a youth baseball coach, Yeoman Wilder, who was also the panel, claiming that he prevented ICE from interviewing members of his team about their parents. Wilder claims the kids are all citizens, but it is unclear from news reports if their parents are or if they are here illegally. When CNN asked Wilder if the kids were all here legally, he simply said they were “born and raised” here.
With that as context and amid everything else the left doesn’t like about President Trump, Blackistone declared, “You know, I, for one, don't think that this country, under this administration, is really fit to host the World Cup or fit to host the Olympics coming up, because those organizations have information in their charters about what they stand for and who they stand for. FIFA has an entire section about human rights, and yet Gianni Infantino, the head of FIFA, had the nerve to embrace President Trump the other day at the championship game of the Club World Cup, someone who does not stand for human rights but instead is trampling human rights.”
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