‘They’ll have to go home’: Trump’s World Cup task force touts welcome, warns visitors

US vice-president JD Vance, president Donald Trump and Fifa president Gianni Infantino, left to right, attend a meeting of the Fifa World Cup task force at the White House on Tuesday.Photograph: Kent Nishimura/ReutersUS president Donald Trump convened the first meeting of his administration’s 2026 World Cup task force on Tuesday in a public event in which he revealed that he did not know Russia had been banned from Fifa competitions and insisted the tournament would go off without a hitch.