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President Donald Trump is responding to global outrage over his intervention with FIFA during the World Cup. The president said he didn’t initially know what a red card was or what its consequences were, but when he learned it could keep a star U.S. forward out of Monday’s knockout match against Belgium, he felt compelled to call FIFA president Gianni Infantino asking for a review. Belgium said it's appealing the suspension of the penalty. Infantino’s predecessor Sepp Blatter said “red cards are not overturned by political phone calls. They are overturned by rules, evidence and independent bodies.” Norway’s coach called the scandal “bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.”