{"id":68022,"date":"2026-03-04T06:55:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/with-or-without-lionel-messi-inter-miamis-trump-visit-means-something-leander-schaerlaeckens\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T06:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T11:55:20","slug":"with-or-without-lionel-messi-inter-miamis-trump-visit-means-something-leander-schaerlaeckens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/with-or-without-lionel-messi-inter-miamis-trump-visit-means-something-leander-schaerlaeckens\/","title":{"rendered":"With or without Lionel Messi, Inter Miami\u2019s Trump visit means something | Leander Schaerlaeckens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The MLS champions face a familiar conundrum: lend credence to a warmongering administration, or sit out and draw heat<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump was not at the White House when the military he commands began bombing Iran over the weekend. He was at Mar-a-Lago, his estate in Florida, following the action from a makeshift situation room apparently built from those curtains that you can wheel away. That\u2019s also where he was when American forces kidnapped Venezuelan president Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and his wife a few weeks earlier.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, however, Trump <em>will<\/em> be at the White House for the really important business \u2013 namely, receiving Inter Miami as winners of the 2025 MLS Cup.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2026\/mar\/04\/lionel-messi-inter-miami-white-house-visit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MLS champions face a familiar conundrum: lend credence to a warmongering administration, or sit out and draw heat Donald Trump was not at the White House when the military he commands began bombing Iran over the weekend. He was at Mar-a-Lago, his estate in Florida, following the action from a makeshift situation room apparently &#8230; <a title=\"With or without Lionel Messi, Inter Miami\u2019s Trump visit means something | Leander Schaerlaeckens\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/with-or-without-lionel-messi-inter-miamis-trump-visit-means-something-leander-schaerlaeckens\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about With or without Lionel Messi, Inter Miami\u2019s Trump visit means something | Leander Schaerlaeckens\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}