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President Donald Trump has made a point to make himself the center of the national conversation on countless topics. But it turns out the president\u2019s insistence on inserting himself into sports may be spoiling the popularity of even that.<\/p>\n

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\u201cYoung people are getting very into the World Cup, hosting watch parties, making fan-edits, and leaning into sideline fashion,\u201d wrote Gen Z analyst Rachel Janfaza on her \u201cUp and Up\u201d substack. \u201cAnd while Team USA is out, many young Americans still have a team to cheer for because they weren\u2019t rooting for the US men\u2019s national soccer team in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe U.S. kind of seems like they don\u2019t really need the support right now,\u201d said Nicholas, 18, from Arizona in a survey. <\/p>\n

After he heard that Trump had appealed directly to FIFA President Gianni Infantino to overturn American striker Folarin Balogun\u2019s red card (the White House maintains the phone call between Trump and Infantino was just an inquiry and didn\u2019t exert any pressure), Nicholas said he was even less interested in backing his home team.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump calling FIFA and getting it dropped like that\u2019s just really embarrassing on a world stage. This is why people don\u2019t really like the U.S. for a lot of reasons,\u201d said Nicolas. \u201cIt seems like we have this power imbalance over the rest of the countries. It\u2019s kind of like the parallel with Trump having a lot of corruption problems right now in his administration. It\u2019s just, it\u2019s a bad look for the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPoll after poll has shown that President Donald Trump\u2019s support among young people has plummeted since he retook office, with his economic policies being a major reason,\u201d wrote MS NOW political analyst Ja’han Jones on Monday. \u201cAnd Trump hasn\u2019t helped his likability by describing the affordability crisis as a \u2018hoax\u2019 and downplaying the need to lower housing costs.\u201d<\/p>\n

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt made no improvements on things Monday when she blasted her own generation for having no love for the privileged billionaire president \u2013because of their sense of privilege. <\/p>\n

Read more The 1987 warning sign about Trump everyone missed<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cMy generation \u2014 I hate to say it, Gen Z and those younger than me \u2014 have been raised with just silver spoons in their mouths, just getting everything handed to them,\u201d Leavitt told Fox News host Jesse Watters last week, ignoring the fact that Trump derived his own wealth from his father. And despite surveys showing the generation has less access to money and housing than their parents and grandparents.<\/p>\n

Jones added that \u201cas a 27-year-old member of the most corrupt and shamelessly self-enriching administration in modern U.S. history \u2014 and someone who has used her taxpayer-funded job to spread lies and launch childish insults on its behalf \u2014 Leavitt is arguably the epitome of entitlement.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Janfaza reports young Americans\u2019 choice to back a foreign team comes amid a growing generational gap in national pride, with only 34 percent of young Americans 18\u201329 being proud of being American. Meanwhile, 43 percent of Americans ages 30\u201349 a proud of their status and 59 percent of Americans ages 50\u201364 are proud of being American.<\/p>\n

These numbers appear to reflect the younger generation\u2019s financial insecurity.<\/p>\n

Other young Americans speaking with Janfaza said they felt the sting of a missed opportunity by disliking their own team and its connection to such a decisive president.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like, in a country where so much division already exists, it\u2019s unfortunate to put aside an event like sporting, which can unite a country so much,\u201d said Marianna.<\/p>\n

Read more Conservative mocks Mark Kelly for being in love with his wife<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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