How Trump Entrusted His World Cup to Another Giuliani [View all]

Mr. Giuliani, 40, is the executive director of the White House Task Force on the FIFA World Cup 2026 — the nation’s steward for what he has billed, with Trumpian (and not inaccurate) flair, as “the largest sporting event in the history of the world,” which begins next month.

The job would have been complicated enough before the war in Iran, one of the countries competing in the draw; or the 76-day homeland security shutdown that waylaid vital funding (and left Mr. Giuliani and much of his team unpaid); or the jittery incoming messages from blue host cities unsettled by Mr. Trump openly musing about relocating matches that have been planned for years.

But it has fallen to Mr. Giuliani, a Trump super-loyalist and regular golf partner who once played professionally, to reassure the soccer-loving masses that he is on the case, that the president hears their concerns, that everything will probably be fine.

“This guy,” Markwayne Mullin, the homeland security secretary, said in a recent Instagram video, pointing double finger-guns at Mr. Giuliani, “is in charge of making sure it goes smooth.”



https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/us/politics/world-cup-trump-andrew-giuliani.html