Belgium’s message to Trump after knocking US out of World Cup drops jaws: 'They cooked'

What likely would have been an ordinary World Cup match between the United States and Belgium on Monday turned into a politically charged flashpoint after President Donald Trump meddled in last week's game, and following a lopsided win, the Belgium team sent Trump a message that left onlookers stunned.

Trump and his inner circle pressed FIFA officials last week to review a one-game suspension issued to one of the United States’ star players, a petition that ultimately proved successful after the penalty was overturned. However, Monday night’s match proved disastrous for the United States, which was defeated 4-1 and eliminated from progressing in the tournament.

Not long after Belgium’s fourth goal in the match, its national team – the Belgian Red Devils – issued a brutal two-word message directed squarely at Trump.

“Overturn this,” reads a social media post from the Belgian Red Devils’ X account, a post that was seen more than 5.5 million times as of 7 a.m. ET.

Despite the United States’ defeat, a number of American critics gave Belgium credit for the blistering rebuke.

“They cooked with this one. I’m sorry,” wrote Kevin Fredericks, a comedian and actor, in a social media post on X to his more than 463,000 followers.

Franklin Leonard, a California-based film producer, argued that the United States had “rightly” become a “laughingstock” amid Trump’s FIFA World Cup meddling, and Joe Denton, a popular UK-based streamer and content creator who’s amassed more than 100 million views, stated that “today, I feel Belgian.”

Journalist and former MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan offered a more solemn take on the Belgian Red Devils’ rebuke of Trump.

“Thanks Donald Trump for allowing the rest of the world to mock our football team because you couldn’t stop ruining everything you stick your nose into,” Hasan wrote in a social media post on X.

And Cihan Çelik, a German physician, concurred with Hasan’s solemn assessment.

“Up until Trump's intervention, this World Cup was a success story for the USA, including in terms of sympathy for the US team,” Çelik wrote in a social media post on X to his more than 37,000 followers, according to an automatic translation from German.

“Now it ends with a sporting humiliation that is drawing mockery worldwide. Remarkable, how consistently Trump damages everything he touches.”