Trump Threatens to Move World Cup Out of Seattle Due to Mayor-Elect’s Politics

https://murica.website/2025/11/trump-threatens-to-move-world-cup-out-of-seattle-due-to-mayor-elects-politics/

On behalf of my city i would like to wish Donald Trump a very heartfelt FUCK YOU. 🖕🦄🖕

President Donald Trump has again dangled the prospect of moving the World Cup out of Seattle next year while calling Mayor-elect Katie Wilson “another beauty” and a “very, very liberal slash communist mayor.”

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/trump-threatens-seattles-world-cup-calls-mayor-elect-wilson-communist/

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Katie Wilson says she ‘will be a mayor for everyone,’ critics should try taking her at her word

Seattle, we are entering uncharted territory. We have not had a mayor like Katie Wilson in recent memory if ever. She is a genuine community organizer who challenged a seemingly-invincible incumbent and won using volunteer power in the face of the largest attack ad campaign in city history. As she takes office, she owes most of her win to people who were inspired by her campaign messages to volunteer their time, which is a remarkable position to be in as a politician. She does not owe any big debts to major donors, and though she calls herself a socialist she did not even run as part of a specific socialist organization.

Her relative lack of political restrictions is an opportunity for everyone in Seattle to toss out some of their own political cynicism. Formerly hardened political alliances may have new space to change. In her victory speech last week, Mayor-elect Wilson described a very different version of mayor’s office access than our city is used to.

“I am a community organizer, and I will not stop being a community organizer once I step into City Hall,” she said. “I intend to govern in a way that creates opportunities for that organizing” because “what I am able to accomplish depends on you.”

Though Wilson touted her victory as “a strong mandate,” noting that the political attack ads went after her personally rather than her popular campaign vision, she also said, “I am a coalition builder […] I will be a mayor for everyone.” Perhaps the line “I will be a mayor for everyone” sounds rote to folks old enough to remember when politicians used to say it more often, but in 2025 it is not a particularly common sentiment. Even Zohran Mamdani didn’t say it during his long and rousing victory speech in New York City. For all the simplified comparisons national media wants to make, Katie Wilson is not Zohran Mamdani. She didn’t build up a cult of personality to help carry her into office, instead focusing on the vision and building partnerships. She even seemed hesitant at times to defend herself from personal attacks, a vulnerability the megadonors behind the pro-Harrell PAC spent nearly $2 million hammering. Yet she won anyway.

We have so completely assumed that our politicians are all motivated by selfishness and ego that political commentators are already making fools of themselves trying to apply this assumption to Wilson. Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post penned an embarrassing editorial opposing her plan for public child care funding by mocking her personally for accepting money from her parents to help pay for child care by saying she wants to “let them off the hook.” Maybe this seems like a brilliant attack line over in D.C. or inside the top corporate offices at Amazon (where it sure seems this editorial was actually penned), but anyone who has watched the Wilson campaign this year knows that she never made this election about herself or her family. It is sad the WA Post Editorial Board (or whatever is left of it) cannot comprehend a person running for office because they genuinely care about city policy.

The Seattle Times Editorial Board also ran a mostly poor piece attacking Wilson for failures of our current and previous administrations like closed parks and poor 911 response times (did they receive the same instructions from our Amazon overlords?), but to their credit they ended with an actually good concept: “The job of mayor is not an easy one. Seattle has had four straight one-termers. If Wilson breaks that cycle, Seattle will be better off.” On this point we agree.

The strategy the city has been trying since Ed Murray was elected in 2013 has not worked, and Wilson brings a dramatically fresh approach. It would be ridiculous and undemocratic to suggest that everyone should fall in line praising her. Of course she and her ideas should have critics. Instead, I hope critics act in good faith and embrace Wilson’s genuine approach to politics. If you think your policy idea is better, than make your case on its merits. Organize your neighbors. Wilson is presenting the city with the opportunity to drag our city’s longstanding problems out into the open so we can organize around a way to finally take action.

Let’s take one example that the Seattle Times Ed Board brought up: “As Wilson and her allies take a victory lap, they must recognize that three Lake City (sic) parks are currently closed due to crime and chaos.” The closed parks in the story they linked are actually in Lake City, Capitol Hill and the Central District (they do read their own paper, right?), but the point stands that closing our parks is an unacceptable response to our city’s problems. Jenny Durkan was the first mayor I remember who really embraced the park-closure strategy, but Bruce Harrell continued the practice. It’s a ridiculous idea that if there is crime in a park then the public park must be the problem. Parks belong to the people, and closing a park makes our city worse. Closing a park also does nothing to address the root cause of the persistent crime or poverty problem that was on display there, it just shoves people somewhere else and creates a gaping hole in our public spaces. Mayor-elect Wilson in her victory speech suggested how people who care about their closed park can do something about it: Get organized. Whether you supported her campaign or not, take her at her word. Gather some neighbors, come up with some ideas for reopening, improving and activating the park space, then bring those ideas to her office and see where it can go.

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#Seattle Mayor-elect #katiewilson vocally supporting the Starbucks union strike!

https://bsky.app/profile/wilsonforseattle.bsky.social/post/3m5otzf65bk2p

With the help of an “army of grassroots volunteers” and the support of Seattle’s working-class neighborhoods, progressive candidate #KatieWilson was named the winner of the city’s mayoral election on Wednesday night, beating corporate-backed Democratic Mayor Bruce Harrell after a campaign that focused heavily on how unaffordable #Seattle is for many families—including Wilson’s

https://therealnews.com/progressive-challenger-katie-wilson-elected-mayor-of-seattle

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Progressives notch another win as Katie Wilson tops incumbent Bruce Harrell for Seattle mayor

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Seattle's new Mayor, Katie Wilson

Acceptance speech 👏 👏👏

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAy5U6lLmpE

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