# The Trump Administration: The Clusterfuck Continues (Part 2)

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**Created:** [December 1, 2025, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298 "2025-12-01T20:32:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 9, 2026, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/6139 "2026-06-09T12:03:06Z")

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This is BEYOND outrageous!  
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> # Somali Referee Says His World Cup Dream Is Dashed After U.S. Denies Entry
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> _“I had the right papers and everything,” Omar Abdulkadir Artan said in his first interview since he was turned back. He would have been the first Somali to referee a game in the tournament._
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> [https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/world/africa/somali-referee-world-cup-us-entry-omar-artan.html?unlocked\_article\_code=1.o1A.7pPZ.RJE\_hwccfTjH&smid=url-share](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/world/africa/somali-referee-world-cup-us-entry-omar-artan.html?unlocked_article_code=1.o1A.7pPZ.RJE_hwccfTjH&smid=url-share)

Apparently, for you there are no “right papers.”

> A referee from Somalia said on Tuesday that the biggest dream of his professional life had been shattered after the American authorities [denied](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/world/africa/somalian-world-cup-referee-denied-us-entry.html?searchResultPosition=1) him permission to enter the United States to participate in the World Cup soccer tournament.
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> The referee, Omar Abdulkadir Artan, was one of 52 selected for this summer’s World Cup in North America. He was one of [seven African referees](https://www.cafonline.com/fifa-world-cup/news/caf-s-elite-match-officials-named-among-world-s-best-to-officiate-at-the-fifa-world-cup-2026/) to be chosen for the tournament and would have been the first Somali to referee a World Cup game.
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> Speaking for the first time since he was denied entry to the United States, Mr. Artan told The New York Times that officiating a World Cup game would have been a symbol for all Somalis of what they could achieve in spite of [their country’s difficulties](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/world/africa/somalia-mogadishu-fighting.html?searchResultPosition=1).
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> “I am very, very disappointed,” Mr. Artan said in a telephone interview from Istanbul, the city he had been flown to after he was refused entry. “I’m just simply a referee who’s trying to live his dream, the biggest dream of my life, to come to the World Cup.”  
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