The president of the United States was at the men's World Cup final yesterday in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
He did the thing where he tried to photobomb the winning team during their big trophy hoisting moment again.
Based on recent World Cup final viewership numbers, more than a billion people were watching him embarrass himself.
The president addressed the nation in primetime late last week,
and he'd be lucky if a million people were watching him embarrass himself.
NBC and ABC decided not to air it.
Ditto over at CNN and MSN Now.
Fox took it and CBS took it too, but they did the whole truth sandwich
thing where they blast you with facts before and after to cushion the blow of what comes between.
The speech was low energy and kind of confusing.
We had transgender for everybody.
The president's living in the past and trying to drum up concerns about election security in advance of the midterms.
It's not worth spending a ton of time on what he said, but...
On today's Explained from Vox, we're going to spend a ton of time on why he's saying it.
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