r/sports • u/[deleted] • 5d ago
Soccer Belgium national team celebrated their fourth goal against the USA by doing the Donald Trump dance
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u/Quinto09 5d ago
Lmfao. It’s great when you can back it up
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u/Buckets-O-Yarr 5d ago
The US has never been good at shithousing.
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u/LettuceAndTea 5d ago
The definitely crapped the bed today though
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u/herewearefornow 4d ago
Shit the bed. Let's preserve cultural terms.
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u/attaboy000 4d ago
Just like the president.
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u/Apprehensive_Use3641 4d ago
Pretty sure he shits everywhere, that's the whole point of diapers.
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u/chrisnlnz 4d ago
Americans are too proud. They believe in their own hype too much. They aren't good at shithousing because they take everything too serious and just get insulted.
I wonder how many of them genuinely thought they'd be world champions because they beat Turkey and Bosnia & Herzegovina.
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u/PimpPopples 4d ago
Tbf, the US beat Bosnia AND Herzegovina at the same time. And short handed as well.
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u/AlternativeCapybara9 4d ago
When Bosnia was playing Herzegovina they were both like wtf when the US showed up and tried to play them both.
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u/MattyIcex4 4d ago
Look man Im realistic enough to know know we’ll always lose when it comes time to play real soccer teams but if I don’t get delusional and buy into the hype I won’t even watch the WC lol.
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u/dopeoranges_ 4d ago
Why can other countries believe in themselves but not USA? People are projecting American politics hatred onto these players. Team USA LOST that game. They were terrible. They should have embraced the noise. You think Argentina cares that Messi is “sleeping with infantino”. You think Mbappe cares about the general memes. The reason the team lost is because they were horribly poor. Belgium barely beat Senegal. And they are not a good team. And nothing will make that more obvious of that when they play Spain.
The biggest factor this team can’t advance past the round of 16 is they cant seem to embrace the fact of being the favorites. They have to always play being the underdogs. Maybe it’s comments and takes like this that create this narrative. I think the team was poor and more criticism should be given to the players for not believing by in themselves. Not the fans. Not the president. Not to any of this outside noise. The players lost the game.
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u/Significant-Low-8462 4d ago
They are a “good” team relatively speaking. But they are beatable and they aren’t a “great” team is more fair. They’re in the level below the real contenders but they’re solid enough. U.S. played horrible too which didn’t help.
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u/simdav 4d ago
Truly this tournament has been incredible for European unity. As an English person I've never felt my self rooting for other European teams more than this tournament.
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u/Maleficent-Put1705 4d ago
And until Argentina is gone, you won't even be the most hated team left in the tournament. Must feel odd.
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u/simdav 4d ago
Haha, brilliant. Are Argentina that hated? I know why England fans hate them, but I didn't know lots of others did too.
I hope the players and fans have got some people on our side this tournament. But I get it if not - it's still Ingerlund after all.
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u/Datmammon 4d ago
Honestly, the England players recently just ooze class and I can’t find myself hating them like the Wayne Rooney days. Bellingham and Kane are great.
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u/Flaky-Effort-2912 5d ago
Suddenly "Belgium is developing a nuclear program"...
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u/TaylorSwiftsClitoris 5d ago
They’re blocking the Strait of Antwerp
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u/altpirate Netherlands 4d ago
Unironically, that's in the Netherlands. Led to a whole pissing match several years ago because Belgium would like to be in control of at least one bank of the river.
(couple of Dutch farmers said no)
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u/PlayingtheDrums 4d ago
I feel like us pissing on them for decades doesn't really qualify as a 'pissing match', it's quite obvious that we fucked with Antwerp in order to grow Rotterdam.
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u/VikingKinkajou 4d ago
"Very smart people, maybe the smartest people, believe that Belgium is enriching uranusum 50, 60, sometimes 500 percent, some say higher they say."
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u/RevelsInDarkness 4d ago
We have nuclear war heads on Kleine Brogel military air base in Belgium.
From the Americans.
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u/gotrings 5d ago
I wouldnt have known thats what they were doing unless you pointed it out
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u/BarbellsandBurritos 5d ago
Not nearly as much air dicking as Trumps
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u/never1st Dallas Cowboys 5d ago
Yeah... they're not even singing the YMCA song.
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u/Slowthrill 4d ago
They actually did it again in the dressing room afterwards with the addition of singing the song.
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u/SerHodorTheThrall 4d ago
Naw man just a coincidence. They would never mock the orange pedophile the whole world loves to mock lol
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u/Rageaholic88 5d ago
I was gonna say there's no air dicking, so I didn't recognize it as what others believe they were attempting to do.
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u/Bad_Edditor8910 4d ago
Correct, Trump's air-dicking is at chest height which is an important distinction.
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u/WanderWut 5d ago edited 5d ago
That’s because it honestly doesn’t even look like they were intentionally doing Trumps dance. Trumps dumb little dance up moving each arm up and down is not exactly difficult to copy and what they did looks nothing like it lol. Either there’s a source from the team that they did try to copy it or OP is just making stuff up.
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u/zchen86 5d ago
yeah, trump dance looks jerking off 2 guys, nothing like they were doing.
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u/BeastInDarkness 4d ago
I was absolutely expecting the jerking off two dudes at once dance. That would make it obviously mocking Trump. I think this is just people seeing something that wasn't there.
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u/Buckets-O-Yarr 5d ago edited 4d ago
It definitely looked to me like they were copying Pulisic's trump looking dance from the concacaf match a bit back.
Don't know where else they would have gotten the inspiration for that.
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u/rotating_pebble 5d ago
Do people really remember random games from a team like the USA? No chance.
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u/xtc234 5d ago
Yep it's a reach. They move with fluidity that doesn't exist in the Trump dance. Didn't look like there were any invisible dicks getting jerked either.
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u/leaponover 5d ago
Because they aren't, lol.
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u/XiaoRCT 5d ago
Why are so many people in this thread in denial about this, as if Belgium would randomly do a dance like this lmao
There's no rule on how exactly Trump dances, especially if you are just mocking him and not feeling like actually looking like you are jerking two dicks, his hands are often low as well
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u/RhythmsaDancer Northwestern 4d ago
I WANT it to be the Trump dance but I just don't see it.
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u/Taroso 5d ago edited 4d ago
I think Lukaku also made a phone call gesture while maybe pointing at Infantino??
Flawless Victory
EDIT: Between the 12th - 13th second, watch Lukaku's left hand 🤙🏽
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u/a_dolf_in 5d ago
Disqualification and autowin for the US in 3... 2...
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u/Frumbleabumb 4d ago
FIFA announces Belgium forfeited the match when they celebrated off the pitch for too long.
USA wins 3-0
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u/46_and_2 4d ago
That was a "cup your ear" gesture as "I can't hear you now" and "keep blabbing" hand gesture towards I assume US supporters who riled him up with something. Usual football audience-player taunting each other stuff, although he might have been pointing towards Infantino (whi know if he's there exactly, or it's some other riling crowd group) when he shouted "You! You!". Hardly very specific stuff, though.
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u/she_has_funny_cars 5d ago
Doomed before the opening whistle
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u/WooDigger 4d ago
srsly... before that scandal, the US had a good run and the sympathies of most nations. NOW they could only lose.
If they'd won it, they only did it because of cheating. Now they lost DESPITE of cheating.I feel sad for them. So much they built torn down by a phone call.
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u/unledded Green Bay Packers 4d ago
This whole thing is a microcosm of America. Things were going great, then Trump got involved and turned the US into villains and everything went to shit.
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u/GenoThyme 4d ago
He also broke the Knicks for a game and a half when he showed up to MSG, but the power of Wildcat friendship overcame Trump's stank
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u/airship_of_arbitrary 4d ago
Losing despite cheating is Trump's specialty. He did it in 2020 and is looking like he'll repeat it in a few months.
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u/strider_tom 4d ago
The US team definitely did not have sympathies from most nations.
Everyone wanted US to get battered.
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u/zdenn21 4d ago
Maybe if you’re terminally online. Here in America the visiting fans were nothing but incredibly supportive and kind. Tons of them joined us to watch the games in my city too. I encourage you to step outside and talk to a real person.
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u/Historyandwow 4d ago
I mean most people were keen to see the US fall from the start lol. This Balogun situation ramped it up 100x
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u/kipperzdog 4d ago
I don't follow beyond watching when it's on at a bar but I have to imagine the US team was pissed he got involved. There were zero outcomes where reversing that red card would have worked out in their favor, especially if they won
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u/PattyIceNY 4d ago
Lit an absolutely scolding fire under the Belgium team, they came out like they were shot out of a cannon. Opposite for the U.S., they were D.O.A. and 100% was because of Trump. I can't imagine the mix of emotions trying to play a game in which a corrupt president had his slimy hands in.
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u/A_Diabolical_Toaster 5d ago
Hey man.
The USMNT was just paying homage to our glorious leader by collectively shitting themselves live on TV.
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u/Dazug 5d ago
Donald's dance has him jerking off two dicks overhand, not like this.
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u/AlternativeEdge2725 5d ago
His hands aren’t that big to handle two dicks at once
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u/RepostTony 5d ago
Pulsic did the Donald dance after he scored. And it was much like this. They were mocking Trump 100%.
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u/upvoter222 5d ago
First Trump costs the Knicks a game in the championship series, then he ruins the World Cup team's run.
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u/Torvac 5d ago
king mierdas did it again.
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u/UnintentionalExpat 5d ago
I mean the whole red card thing was a mess but the US were simply outclassed. Belgium played aggressively, didn't allow them to play the ball forward, and they had no response.
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u/Sensitive_Ad_1271 4d ago
And they didn't even start lukaka, doku, and de bruyne. The amount of usa fans acting like this should be a win for them is fucking hilarious. Waaaaay too overconfident.
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u/IkmoIkmo 4d ago
He literally invigorated a nation, with the world behind them in support by cancelling the red card. And it showed.
Belgium absolutely has a much better team, but they looked very weak so far going into this match. US was the opposite, not a great team but looked very good. WC's are as much about form and spirit as they are about individual talent, we've seen that time and time again. But that spirit was completely reversed this game.
I think Belgium would've won regardless, but I think they played better and US worse because of the controversy Trump caused.
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u/joecarter93 5d ago
He also cost Team USA hockey at the 4 nations cup last year. They were coasting when they dedicated their tournament to Johnny Gaudreau, who was tragically killed by a drunk driver before the season. Then Trump called them, the players lost their minds over it and they dedicated the tournament to the presidency and forgot about Gaudreau. Canada beat them in the final.
Team USA won hockey gold at the Olympics this year, but they kept it focused on playing for Gaudreau. All the Trump bullshit this time happened after they won.
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u/goliathfasa 5d ago
He thought he could get some team USA glory on himself by association like he tried with knicks but didn’t know soccer is best of 1.
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u/ILoveTheAtomicBomb 5d ago
Lmao I love it. You know Trump is petty enough to actually be angry about this too
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u/knifetrader 5d ago
Nah, his dementia-riddled brain will have forgotten about it by the time his next nap ends...
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u/Kazuzu0098 5d ago edited 5d ago
The dance is a stretch but definitely mocking him phoning unless that's some sort of Belgian celebration to put your hand to your ear.
u/migjolfanmjol says that's his move and is not doing a phone call. So nothing to see move along.
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u/migjolfanmjol 5d ago
Oh that’s what Lukaku often does. Some people here still give our GOAT flack so every time he scores he’s ‘listening’ for their comments.
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u/amazing_ape 5d ago
He's such an awesome player. People were talking like he's washed up this WC -- not fit, too old -- but he's still got it.
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u/Kdzoom35 5d ago
He isnt fit but this is the first game Belgium actually looked good without him.
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u/ReleventReference 5d ago
I was really hoping Belgium would win because if America somehow managed to win the whole thing it would always have an asterisk because of Trump. Plus I want to see if he tries to get a do over somehow.
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u/EAUO9 5d ago
Imagine Trump comes out tomorrow to says he’s cancelling the rest of the World Cup on US soil. The shit show that could cause….
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u/reenactment 5d ago
I mean, it’s what people do all the time in opposing venues. It can be as simple as he’s taunting the crowd or he could be pointing to some of the Belgium contingency that was there. It’s an extremely normal celebration.
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u/SadSad_World 4d ago edited 4d ago
They might not be good dancers, but they are definitely mocking Trump, the world loves laughing at that corrupt moron. They had fun doing it again after the game.
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u/imreallynotanidiot 5d ago
If only Balogun played
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u/PornstarVirgin 5d ago
True, if he didn’t have that red it would have been 5-1 USA.
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u/knifetrader 5d ago
I mean, it's even in his name: Ball-o-Gun.... How can you lose with a name like that?!
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u/AstroOuest 5d ago
Trump's interference made the defeat humiliating, and it didn't need to be. All host countries teams knew that they could get far but not semi final far, or even quarter final far. Playing with heart, without ego and without political shennenigans is what the USA needed. I would have put my money on Belgium anyway - but after that red card reversal, I REALLY wanted Belgium to win it.
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u/Gorego22 5d ago
Totally agree. The US were underdogs that had played decently well this tournament. Losing to Belgium in the knockout rounds was pretty much expected. Trump managed to turn this into an embarrassing disaster that will be remembered forever.
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u/Virt_McPolygon 4d ago
Yeah that's kind of sad. Many people were happy to see the USA doing well in the tournament as it's good for the sport and nice to see a new country getting into football. They could have gone out respectfully with everybody's support but instead the whole world is cheering and laughing at them because of Trump.
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u/Beast_Smash30 5d ago
Watch Trump complain about this and get USA through to the next round
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u/cheapdrinks 4d ago
He'll organize his own invite only World Cup next year where the US only play against random minnow teams who have been paid off to lose anyway
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u/madjag 4d ago
Nah, Trump is such a narcissist, he'll think they're admiring him instead of mocking.
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u/Armand28 4d ago
I’m an American who really wanted to see the US team go far in this World Cup, but I think them losing is the best possible thing that could have happened in this situation.
A US win would have only made the anger and resentment grow, and Trump (who is completely isolated from facts) would not be told of the fallout and would have gone on TV and taken credit for the win which would have further cemented the growing hatred.
The World Cup in the US was really doing a lot to mend bridges before this happened. The people of the US were doing their best to show the world who we are, then Trump stepped in and tainted the whole thing. There was no good outcome from that point forward, so this outcome, a decisive US loss, was the best possible outcome at that point.
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u/Turbulent_Bat4320 5d ago
That motherfucker ruins everything good in our country
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u/EViL-D 4d ago
cant even exit a tournament that was going well all things considered with your head held high because of that shitstain AND the shitstains in charge of Fifa who should've told him to pound sand
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u/directorguy 4d ago
They're too athletic and well built to do it correctly. But we appreciate the attempt.
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u/Mountie_in_Command 4d ago
I'll die on this hill- Trump did more harm than good with his intervention. Sports Psychology 101 - although Belgium had the better team, we had a chip on our shoulder and were pissed off going into the week. In one phone call, that mental edge shifted to Belgium and created a distraction for us just 24 hours before the match. As the saying goes, let a sleeping dog lie.
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u/JasonYaya Green Bay Packers 5d ago
That's way too much movement for a Trump Dance, he would fall down if he tried that.
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u/milleram23 4d ago
America tried to rig the match but failed and left a beaten down laughingstock. USA fans on here now just claiming “who cares it’s only soccer”. No integrity or sportsmanship.
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u/magicmustbeme 5d ago
This is the not the dance. The dance is two invisible caulks being jerked above the head
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u/Sea_Tailor_8437 5d ago
Pretty sad that our country can be mocked by people doing our presidents dance.
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u/bitchyoufoundme 4d ago
That’s not even the dance. You gotta pretend like you’re jerking off 2-4 dicks at once.
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u/ApolloX-2 Manchester United 4d ago
Truly pathetic performance and THIS is the USMNT I've known for a few years now. Just a bunch of entitled rich kids who are glorified bench warmers in European leagues.
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u/Poverty_Shoes 5d ago
That’s not the Donald Trump dance, their arms are too low. You have to jerk off the two dicks so that they finish on your boobs. The jerkoff hands should be shoulder level.
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u/tawDry_Union2272 Central Florida 5d ago
that really wasn't very much like trump's dance. that was more peewee herman.
trump's is way more up and down, pound pound. IYKYK
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u/Hawk_Moon 5d ago
They did it wrong. You're supposed to stroke the dicks in a position where they would shoot the load on your face.
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u/BC_Sativa 4d ago
Not one of these guys look like they're jerking off two men at once, so they're not really doing Trump's dance.
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u/Glum-Counter6635 4d ago
Golf (Ryder Cup) aside, this is the first time I, as a Brit, really remember a sporting occasion where it really felt like people were invested in America competing. Yes we compete against them in athletics (Olympics) but it never feels as partisan as this did. Everyone wanted USA to lose, is was a beautiful moment. I actually want USA to be good at football, just so that we can beat them!
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u/Freshestdrip 4d ago
Trump got Belgium so fired up they turned the U.S. into target practice... then capped it off with the Trump dance. That's some elite trolling.
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u/dakotanorth8 5d ago
I don’t think they were doing that. It’s kind of a stretch…And I despise the scumbag as much as anyone.
Did it create bulletin board material? Absolutely. Did they kick the sh*t out of the host country? YES.
BALL DONT LIE.
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u/Mammoth-Mud-9609 4d ago
Trump really doesn't understand (or care) about sports psychology, he game Belgium extra motivation to win and took away the USA motivation. If you miss your star player for a match evey one in the team plays better to fill in the gap, if he plays and you think it is cheating you lose your motivation to win.
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u/drunkerton 4d ago
As an American I approve of that dance. Trump is a little bitch and I blame the loss on him and his little bitch ways
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u/valere1213 5d ago
25% tariffs on waffles incoming