Ronaldo Visits White House with Tech and Sports Elite

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00:00And joining me is Front Office Sports Editor-in-Chief Dan Roberts.

00:03Dan, good to see you as always.

00:05So let's start with some news in Washington.

00:06Soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo was at the White House this week.

00:10This is President Trump hosted Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for a glitzy dinner.

00:16But there were tech CEOs there.

00:17Tim Cook, Elon Musk were in attendance.

00:19You also had FIFA President Gianni Infantino was there.

00:22Commander's owner Josh Harris was there.

00:24You even had golfer Bryson DeChambeau there.

00:26But I guess the big question, Dan, why was Ronaldo there?

00:30Well, why not, right?

00:31I mean, I see it as he was a poster child for both the Saudis and also the World Cup.

00:36He was kind of there as an ambassador.

00:38Everyone was there.

00:39It looked like half the Fortune 500 was there.

00:41A lot of sports teams, by the way.

00:42You mentioned Josh Harris.

00:43I mean, you mentioned the biggies there, the head of the Saudi PIF, of course.

00:47By the way, very telling that in an interview with Piers Morgan, Ronaldo referred to MBS as his boss.

00:52Yes.

00:53We know where Ronaldo plays right now.

00:54Of course, Bryson DeChambeau, a real Trump pal.

00:57Multiple live executives.

00:59So what does it all add up to?

01:01Well, we already know he's the sports president.

01:03And we've been saying that in multiple FOS stories.

01:05By the way, I don't think that's a political statement.

01:07No.

01:07You can say whether you like Trump or not, he is the sports president.

01:10He was the first one to go to an NFL game, you know, for the first time in a while.

01:14I mean, he's everywhere.

01:15Supposedly there's still going to be that UFC fight on the lawn, right?

01:18Right.

01:18Big wrestling guy.

01:19And so all this makes a lot of sense.

01:21And I think what you've seen is a lot of sports figures really cozying up to him.

01:25And a lot of people can say they don't like it.

01:27But, I mean, they recognize the era we're in and they've realized that it's advantageous to them.

01:32We'll see what directly comes from this dinner.

01:35But let's look back to when Trump went to the U.S. Open at the invitation of Rolex.

01:40And, gee, what do you know?

01:41Two months later, a tariff deal with the Swiss.

01:44Even though Rolex at the time said it has nothing to do with tariffs and, well, say whatever you want.

01:48So I imagine that multiple things were discussed and hammered out at this dinner,

01:53even in those little quick drive-by conversations that he has when he drops by someone's table.

01:57But a lot of sports names in the room and in his orbit.

01:59Yeah.

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