{"id":89746,"date":"2026-07-13T08:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T11:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/donald-trumps-white-house-back-england-to-win-the-world-cup-after-co-hosts-were-thrashed-by-belgium-and-harry-kanes-golf-game-with-the-us-president\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T08:34:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T11:34:00","slug":"donald-trumps-white-house-back-england-to-win-the-world-cup-after-co-hosts-were-thrashed-by-belgium-and-harry-kanes-golf-game-with-the-us-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/donald-trumps-white-house-back-england-to-win-the-world-cup-after-co-hosts-were-thrashed-by-belgium-and-harry-kanes-golf-game-with-the-us-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump&#8217;s White House back ENGLAND to win the World Cup after co-hosts were thrashed by Belgium &#8211; and Harry Kane&#8217;s golf game with the US president"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"js-article-text\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How much is David Beckham set to pocket from his World Cup brand deals? Take on our quiz in our newsletter <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/link.news.dailymail.co.uk\/join\/world-cup-newsletter-sign-up?utm_source=dailymail.com&#038;utm_medium=organic_editorial&#038;utm_campaign=conversion_newsletter&#038;utm_term=beckham_quiz_blob&#038;utm_budgetpot=organic\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>See more Daily Mail on Google &#8211; <a rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=dailymail.com\">save us as a Preferred Source<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/profile-343\/nick-pisa.html\">NICK PISA, SENIOR REPORTER<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><span> <span>Published:<\/span> <time datetime=\"2026-07-13T09:44:01+0100\"> 04:44 EDT, 13 July 2026 <\/time> <\/span> | <span> <span>Updated:<\/span> <time datetime=\"2026-07-13T12:34:24+0100\"> 07:34 EDT, 13 July 2026 <\/time> <\/span> <\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/news\/donald_trump\/index.html\" id=\"mol-b365d580-7e8d-11f1-91c0-e12885565643\">Donald Trump<\/a>s World Cup point man Andrew Giuliani said America is backing <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/sport\/england_football\/index.html\" id=\"mol-f5ebc080-7e8e-11f1-91c0-e12885565643\">England<\/a> to win the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>He told the Daily Mail: You know, if the United States can&#8217;t win on our 250th birthday, then a great story line would be the English coming to America and winning during our anniversary celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been 60 years of hurt I gather for England, so that would be beautiful victory for them if they won the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>I do absolutely think England can go all the way, they are one of the top teams left now.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Giuliani said President Trump &#8211; who wrote last week on social media that <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/sport\/harry-kane\/index.html\" id=\"mol-b388ede0-7e8d-11f1-91c0-e12885565643\">Harry Kane<\/a> was a &#8216;great player&#8217; and a &#8216;great guy&#8217; &#8211; was firmly following the England striker&#8217;s progress in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8216;A few years ago I was among a group of people playing golf with President Trump and <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.com\/sport\/wayne_rooney\/index.html\" id=\"mol-b3880380-7e8d-11f1-91c0-e12885565643\">Wayne Rooney<\/a> was with us, and the president knows his football pretty well, I think that&#8217;s through his relationship with (his son) Barron.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Donald Trump and America are backing England to win the World Cup, the president&#8217;s representative Andrew Giuliani has said<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Mr Giuliani added: Harry Kane is the number one goal scorer for the England team, and if they are going to win the tournament, he will be the main reason.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He is one of the main players on the team, and he and Jude Bellingham are fine athletes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;England strike me as being an exceedingly well-balanced team you have to be confident and what the coach has to drill it into them that they have the potential to win.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The revelation comes after England skipper Harry Kane confirmed he once had played golf with the US leader describing it as a pretty surreal experience.<\/p>\n<p>Kane said that it happened in later 2024 in Florida and that he was envious of Trumps play considering he was then 78 years old.<\/p>\n<p>He said: I played all right to be honest, but 18 months ago he invited me to play when I was down in Palm Beach.<\/p>\n<p>So, when the president invites you somewhere, it was a pretty surreal experience just to meet him and obviously play golf with him.<\/p>\n<p>His golf is pretty good to be honest with you. I hope I can play golf as good as him when Im his age, thats for sure.<\/p>\n<p>A unique experience, but I was just grateful that he invited me to play.<\/p>\n<p><span>How much is David Beckham set to pocket from his World Cup brand deals? 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Take on our quiz in our newsletter HERE See more Daily Mail on Google &#8211; save us as a Preferred Source By NICK PISA, SENIOR REPORTER Published: 04:44 EDT, 13 July 2026 | Updated: 07:34 EDT, 13 July 2026 Donald Trumps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-donald-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}