{"id":96243,"date":"2026-06-27T09:43:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T09:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/speaker-mike-johnson-world-cup-lets-visitors-see-the-genius-of-american-freedom\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T09:43:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T09:43:37","slug":"speaker-mike-johnson-world-cup-lets-visitors-see-the-genius-of-american-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/speaker-mike-johnson-world-cup-lets-visitors-see-the-genius-of-american-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Mike Johnson: World Cup Lets Visitors See The Genius Of American Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> House Speaker Mike Johnson uipped about foreign visitors to the U.S. for the FIFA World Cup:   <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON: We&#8217;re triumphantly hosting the World Cup games all around the country, and we&#8217;re seeing people from different countries come and get a little taste of America, a little taste of freedom, of our culture and our society, and they appreciate it so much more than these socialists running for Congress.  Don&#8217;t forget your blessings. The people from Europe and Latin America, many countries around the world, many of whom, here&#8217;s the key, they grew up under repressive, state-controlled economies. They&#8217;ve never known freedom. They&#8217;ve never known these kinds of things, and they&#8217;re seeing them for themselves: the genius of America&#8217;s system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2026\/06\/26\/speaker_mike_johnson_world_cup_lets_visitors_see_the_genius_of_american_freedom.html\">RealClearPolitics Videos<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Mike Johnson uipped about foreign visitors to the U.S. for the FIFA World Cup: SPEAKER MIKE JOHNSON: We&#8217;re triumphantly hosting the World Cup games all around the country, and we&#8217;re seeing people from different countries come and get a little taste of America, a little taste of freedom, of our culture and our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[258,852,22649,3418,4383,1838,10080,9882,4863],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}