Cristian “Cuti” Romero does not appear to be a fan of Donald Trump.
Argentina lost a 1-0 extra-time heartbreaker to Spain in Sunday’s final of the 2026 World Cup. After the match at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., President Trump took center stage to help hand out medals to both Argentina (second place) and Spain (first place).
As Trump was alongside FIFA president Gianni Infantino and others, the Argentina centre-back Romero came up to receive his second-place medal. Upon getting the medal from Infantino, Romero appeared to completely snub Trump (despite circling back to shake hands with multiple others who were on the stage beyond Trump).
Here is the video, which featured other Argentina players acknowledging and greeting Trump as they walked by.
Cristian Romero (Argentinian football player) shaking the hands with everyone but ignoring trump pic.twitter.com/dkqky7WxLy
— ゛ (@saficnation) July 19, 2026
The 28-year-old Romero is a bedrock player for Argentina who serves one of their undisputed starting CBs and also started on the Argentina team that won the World Cup in 2022. But Romero had a forgettable showing on Sunday against Spain, largely due to the fact that he had to sub off in the 70th minute due to injury.
Romero, who plays at the club level for Tottenham Hotspur of the English Premier League, is already known as a controversial, dirty player who openly taunts opponents and is never afraid to deliver an eye-poke or a studs-up tackle if he feels it can give his team an advantage. That classlessness continued further Sunday with Romero’s apparent snub of President Trump (adding to the other disrespectful moves that Argentina pulled after losing).
