PBS welcomed hard-left professor and former Team USA U-23 player Jules Boykoff to the Tuesday edition of Amanpour and Company to preview the upcoming World Cup. Co-anchor Hari Sreenivasan wasn’t interested in who was going to win but rather in comparing the U.S. under President Trump to previous hosts Russia and Qatar with Boykoff, who claimed the U.S.-hosted tournament is actually worse than Qatar because, at least, Qatar being a small country meant its carbon emissions would be lower.
Sreenivasan began by rhetorically asking, “Each World Cup we have a conversation somewhat similar to this. We talked before the last World Cup in Qatar about the challenges, about labor violations, what Qatar had to do to get that World Cup on. Before that, it was Vladimir Putin. And, you know, what does it mean to have this on Russian soil, so to speak?”
PBS anchor Hari Sreenivasan quotes hard-left professor and former U-23 Team USA player Jules Boykoff, “The 2026 World Cup is not only the most politically combustible tournament in modern history, also on track to be the most polluting.”Boykoff then says the U.S. in 2026 is… pic.twitter.com/3PFSCOtjxQ
— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) June 10, 2026
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