{"id":1067,"date":"2025-12-06T05:09:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T05:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/?p=1067"},"modified":"2025-12-06T05:09:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T05:09:31","slug":"ronaldo-meets-trump-inhigh-profile-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/06\/ronaldo-meets-trump-inhigh-profile-encounter\/sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronaldo meets trump inhigh-profile encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P20251118DT-1739-1-edited.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1073\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P20251118DT-1739-1-edited.webp 1200w, https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P20251118DT-1739-1-edited-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P20251118DT-1739-1-edited-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/P20251118DT-1739-1-edited-768x432.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Portugal\u2019s Cristiano Ronaldo attended a White House black-tie dinner with the US President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, reflecting his role in Saudi football and the kingdom\u2019s modernization drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event also included Elon Musk and Tim Cook. Ronaldo, Al Nassr captain, became football\u2019s first billionaire with a $400m deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Critics cite Saudi sports investments as \u201csportswashing.\u201d He may play a US friendly in 2026, marking his first match in America since 2014, while continuing to promote Saudi projects and the 2034 World Cup bid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portugal\u2019s Cristiano Ronaldo attended a White House black-tie dinner with the US President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, reflecting his role [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1074,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions\/1074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}