Boston mayor Michelle Wu on Wednesday implied the city is ready for a faceoff with US President Donald Trump over his claim he could order FIFA to remove World Cup games scheduled to be played at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough next summer.
Wu appeared on the online talk show Java with Jimmy to respond to Tuesday’s criticism from the White House, which labeled the Democrat as “radical left” and said he would make a call to FIFA president Gianni Infantino if Boston does not “clean up its act.”
“Much of it is locked down by contract so that no single person, even if they live in the White House currently, can undo it,” the Taiwanese-American mayor said. “We’re in a world where for drama, for control, for pushing the boundaries ... ongoing threats ... are issued to individuals and communities who refuse to back down and comply or be obedient to a hateful agenda.”
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“We are going to continue to be who we are and that means, unfortunately, we are going to be in a conversation in a way that is targeting Boston’s values. Ten toes down for Boston,” she said.
Infantino was a guest of Trump at a news conference announcing the accord between Israel and Hamas earlier this week.
Trump on Tuesday was asked about violence in South Boston that included a police vehicle being set ablaze.
“If somebody is doing a bad job, and if I feel there’s unsafe conditions, I would call Gianni — the head of FIFA, who’s phenomenal — and I would say: ‘Let’s move into another location,’ and they would do that. He wouldn’t love to do it, but he would do it very easily.”
FIFA later on Wednesday shied away from a confrontation with Trump, with a spokesperson saying that the “government” would decide whether World Cup host cities are safe enough to remain hosts as scheduled.
The US, Mexico and Canada are joint North American hosts of next year’s FIFA World Cup.
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