The World Cup Had One Champion But Someone Else Tried to Win the Spotlight Spain spent years earning the right to lift the 2026 FIFA World Cup trophy. President Donald Trump apparently thought he had earned a spot in the victory photo. If you've followed Trump over the years, none of this came as a surprise. He has long demonstrated a remarkable ability to turn virtually any event, whether it belongs to him or not, into a stage where the spotlight somehow drifts in his direct

eorge Washington never knelt in the snow at Valley Forge with his cocked hat resting beside him and a shaft of light breaking through the trees. Historians who have spent careers on the man say so plainly. Thomas Tweed, professor emeritus at Notre Dame, has traced the image to a story invented by Mason Locke Weems, the same early biographer who gave America the cherry tree. Weems never witnessed anything himself. He wrote up an account from a secondhand source, a Quaker named