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{"id":24167,"date":"2026-06-13T02:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T02:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/the-american-left-has-a-favorite-player\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T02:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T02:18:07","slug":"the-american-left-has-a-favorite-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/the-american-left-has-a-favorite-player\/","title":{"rendered":"The American left has a favorite player"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>INGLEWOOD, Calif. \u2014 Timothy Weah wasn\u2019t among the eleven Americans who took the field at the start of Friday\u2019s match against Paraguay. But he may already be the American left\u2019s favorite player.<\/p>\n<p>In the run-up to the World Cup, the Olympique de Marseille winger has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7299016\/2026\/05\/21\/usmnt-world-cup-tickets-mayor-mamdani\/\" target=\"_blank\"><u>appeared at an event with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani<\/u><\/a> and echoed Democrats\u2019 \u201caffordability\u201d messaging in his <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/tim-weah-doubles-down-pricey-033631816.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAAfILsLnq6A-Cvpl90stPUazS2u6u_Es2Ol4ughjtvwcmuOSkO2RCW87tXM0fa94_gv1BNmZ62jw602FehR4qJjBOAY1ALR3Mzh7VOskBe1289kPHfv0k8EEb8Dd7ZqtNtJpL6LjB9bKNY9U1ANNLyUBL82QP_8BSPmzQv2lKT6J\" target=\"_blank\"><u>critique of FIFA\u2019s ticket prices<\/u><\/a>, earning a rebuke from Coach Mauricio Pochettino.<\/p>\n<p>Hours before kickoff on Friday, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton showcased only Weah \u2014 the New York-born son of Liberian president George Weah \u2014 in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/HillaryClinton\/status\/2065463706381897750?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\" target=\"_blank\"><u>social-media post saluting<\/u><\/a> the men\u2019s national team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m looking forward to seeing the USMNT represent us in this World Cup,\u201d wrote Clinton, accompanied by an image of Weah on the ball.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, at an Oval Office photo op with his then-club team Juventus, Weah was among a group of players who stood behind President Donald Trump as he floated a possible military attack on Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u201cIt was all a surprise to me, honestly \u2014 they told us that we have to go and I had no choice but to go,\u201d Weah <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6436693\/2025\/06\/19\/weah-juventus-trump-iran-war\/\" target=\"_blank\"><u>later told journalists of the White House visit<\/u><\/a>. \u201cI was caught by surprise, honestly. It was a bit weird. When he started talking about the politics with Iran and everything, it\u2019s kind of like, I just want to play football, man.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INGLEWOOD, Calif. \u2014 Timothy Weah wasn\u2019t among the eleven Americans who took the field at the start of Friday\u2019s match against Paraguay. But he may already be the American left\u2019s favorite player. In the run-up to the World Cup, the Olympique de Marseille winger has appeared at an event with New York City Mayor Zohran [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}