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President Trump did something sane and straightforward at the World Cup draw this week: he pointed out that the sport most of the world calls football ought to be called football here too, and that the NFL might reasonably be relabeled since it bears little resemblance to what the globe understands as football. The predictable outrage machine kicked into gear, howling that this was somehow unpatriotic, but ordinary Americans know it was common sense — a reminder that language can reflect reality, not the other way around.
The setting for the remark was not some backroom radio hit but the high-profile World Cup draw at the Kennedy Center, where Mr. Trump was also presented with FIFA’s inaugural peace prize — a spectacle the legacy media immediately tried to spin into controversy instead of reporting the facts. The global football community uses the same name for the sport that Americans oddly call soccer, and a president willing to call out that inconsistency deserves credit, not derision.
Meanwhile, in Minneapolis, Mayor Jacob Frey staged a p.r. moment that exposed the hollowness of liberal virtue signaling: a now-viral clip shows him grimacing and clearly uncomfortable as he chews through a plate of traditional Somali fare, a stunt intended to show solidarity but instead revealing performative pandering. Conservatives and regular citizens alike spotted the disconnect immediately — when your political gestures look more like fear than conviction, constituents smell the fakery.
This isn’t just about a bad photo op. Frey has been accused by critics of prioritizing showy ethnic outreach over basic responsibilities like public safety and honest communication with voters, even delivering portions of speeches in Somali during recent campaign events. When a mayor’s gestures read as theater, it feeds a growing impression that American leaders would rather posture for niche constituencies than govern for all their citizens.
Put these two stories together and the contrast could not be sharper: one national leader wants to realign American language with the rest of the world and calls out absurdities, while a local politician chooses optics over substance and forces down a bowl of beans to prove a point. Conservatives should call out both the elites who reflexively scold common sense and the local officials who treat cultural identity as a campaign prop instead of addressing the real problems — crime, border security, and the rule of law.
Hardworking Americans are tired of hollow gestures from their leaders. We want representatives who protect our neighborhoods, respect our shared culture, and speak plainly about difficult issues instead of staging melodramas for cable television. It’s time to demand leadership that honors the flag, the language, and the safety of the people who actually pay the bills and keep this country running.
If politicians want to win back trust, they should stop with the manufactured stunts and start delivering results — honest debate about immigration, enforcement where laws are being broken, and a return to common-sense patriotism that unites rather than divides. Real leadership is action, not performative eating contests or cultural grandstanding, and the voters are watching.
