After American President Donald Trump dismissed a question about the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018 as an insult to his state guest Mohammed Bin Salman, after Trump described Khashoggi as someone “not liked by many people” and said of the murder and disappearance of his body “like it or not, everything happens,” there was dinner at the White House.
The Saudi Crown Prince not only appeared at the dinner as part of his first state visit to the United States since Khashoggi’s murder, during which American intelligence concluded that Bin Salman had “authorized” the operation in Istanbul. But also the most famous employee in the cosmos of the Saudi sovereign wealth fund PIF, which is controlled by the crown prince: Cristiano Ronaldo.
“One of the people who can change the world”
The Portuguese footballer for FC al-Nassr recently described Bin Salman as “our boss” in an interview with British journalist Piers Morgan and said he would like to meet Trump. “My main goal is to discuss world peace and the equality we have,” but without explaining specifically what that means. After all, Trump is “one of those people who can change the world.”
At least in the world of Rona Ldo, who has not appeared publicly in the United States since 2016 and has refrained from playing with his club there. A civil lawsuit filed by a woman accusing him of raping her in Las Vegas in 2009 was dismissed in June 2022; The player has always denied these accusations.
Trump said in Washington on Tuesday that he had introduced Ronaldo to his 19-year-old son, Barron, who is a big fan. The extent to which world peace is discussed remains unclear. Ronaldo took a selfie later in the evening, in which Elon Musk, President of the International Football Association FIFA, Gianni Infantino and American Trade Minister Howard Lutnick showed off their sparkling white teeth.
