Trump welcomes Messi to the White House and asks: ‘Who is better, Pelé or Messi?’

➡️ Context: the Brazilian played for the New York club, now extinct, in the second half of the 1970s. Trump was born and raised in the city — in the 1980s, he would venture into sports, founding a league to rival the NFL, in American football. The initiative lasted a few years and failed.