The Argentine football star Lionel Messi met with the President of the United States of America Donald Trump with his Inter Miami club team at the White House.
The president of the United States congratulated his club for winning the Major League Soccer championship for the first time in December.
Their meeting took place before the MLS match against DC United in Washington.
On this, Trump spoke to the media and congratulated this victory, and in that meeting they gave information about the continuous attacks of America and Israel in Iran.
When Trump mentioned these attacks, he mentioned the explosion in Iran, where hundreds of children were martyred in recent days.
Meanwhile, his teammates, including Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez, applauded Trump’s remarks in what appeared to be an unusual and controversial reaction.
Donald Trump unfairly announces the illegal bombing of Iran in front of the entire Inter Miami team.
Hundreds of children were killed in Iran in the last few days.
Lionel Messi and his teammates responded with applause. religion pic.twitter.com/rT0E2tlm9L
— Leyla Hamed (@leylahamed) March 5, 2026
After the video went viral, social media users attacked Messi.
Some users shared the video of the innocent girls martyred in Iran and questioned whether they are applauding for killing those children or not.
Applause for killing these children?! pic.twitter.com/rpmAcf1i3A
— Dr. JH Raza (@jibranhr) March 6, 2026
A user shared some photos of Messi with Netanyahu and wrote that Messi is associated with Zionism.
Messi is a Zionist, this is a fact! pic.twitter.com/fxwv8ZepXd
— MayaDeMéricourt/People Did It Again: GazaHolocaust (@XanaKalinda) March 5, 2026
However, some users also supported Macy and argued that Macy did not understand what the president of the United States was talking about.
Messi is autistic and doesn’t speak english lol
– Catbread (@ToastCatbread) March 5, 2026
Some of Messi’s allies say “Trump doesn’t understand what he’s saying. Maybe he doesn’t, but Iran was mentioned and he and others have seen what’s happening in the last few days, so there’s still no excuse.”
— Hamza C 🇵🇸🍉🇨🇩🇸🇩✊🏼 🇵🇰 (@TMC_V2) March 5, 2026







