Posted on 07/02/2026 6:08:35 AM PDT by Red Badger
It's certainly been an up-and-down 24 hours for Freddy, the World Cup tourist from Germany.
He was inundated with negative attacks from people who apparently had to try to upend him for posting his love of America. They claimed he had been to the U.S. before. But he never said he hadn't - he said he hadn't been to the South or seen a lot of the things he was seeing for the first time. And some claimed he was "psy-op" for the government because he was - gasp - positive about America. This despite the fact he'd been posting about European soccer for the last three years. It was an ugly moment intruding on a wonderful story about a student who said he had saved to be here and have this experience.
But despite that negativity, Freddy appears to have rebounded on Instagram. He posted something pretty phenomenal - his last experience before he headed out of Boston to drive to Dallas to see more of America. He had lunch at Gordon Ramsay's restaurant in Boston - Ramsay's Kitchen. And yes, Ramsay has an "idiot sandwich" on the menu, for those familiar with one of his more common insults.
First is a picture of some of the food, then is the video from Ramsay, third is the lobster roll, and then the final picture is Ramsay's classic Beef Wellington.
That lobster looks fabulous. The Beef Wellington and potato puree looked pretty great, too.
Freddy expressed his gratitude, "Super thankful for this experience and the amazing hospitality by everyone in the restaurant."
Ramsay said he was sorry Germany had lost, that they had been his pick to win the World Cup. But he told Freddy to enjoy the lunch, and "take care!" Good on Ramsay for following through on the "treat." Ramsay also helped set him up in the nice hotel in the center of Boston. I thought that was a treat with some of the swag, but he had a treat on top of that with the lunch.
Then Freddy was off on his way to Dallas.
On Wednesday, he went through Connecticut and saw the Saville Dam in Barkhamsted Reservoir. They had breakfast in a parking lot, then hit Kent Falls State Park. They saw the Bulls Bridge covered bridge. You can see those clips if you click on his avatar in the post above and click on the "Day27us" clip. If you have Instagram. He may post them later as a regular post. Otherwise, it's not embeddable.
But there was other big news as well - that Freddy's White House visit was on. Nick Adams, the special presidential envoy for American Tourism, Exceptionalism, and Values in the Trump administration, confirmed the invite.
"Freddy’s only ‘crime’ was loving America and documenting his travels in a completely non-partisan way," Adams said in a statement. "As the Special Presidential Envoy for Tourism, I am proud that Freddy enjoyed his trip here." Adams termed them "radical left." I had said there were leftists involved in my prior story, because I recognized some folks. But there were certainly others.
Adams said he wanted to make sure the "mob tactics would not win."
The visit will go ahead as planned. America remains open for business and open to visitors who simply want to experience the greatest country on Earth.
So it sounds like we're going to see a fun White House visit coming soon.
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Good for him!
And the fake claim that he’s a Trump plant because he loves America is so baseless. How do those making such claims then explain the hundreds and hundreds of other world cup fans posting all over social media how much they love it here?
They can’t. So typical of the Left to lie to ‘prove’ their points.
Or they’re just idiots. I think both.
Leftists keeps surprising me with an ever increasing level of hate and incoherence. It’s to the point of being scary.
How many people from these teams will try to stay in the US and live for free off the taxpayers ? LOL
The Communists hate the visitors loving everything they despise about America. Big cars, big meals, freedom, and love of country.
Their heads are exploding over soccer fans.
He’s still posting on Instagram.
Same here.
Same here.
That’s because leftists are of their father satan.
I heard a news jockey recently say that these visitors were of the type of people that most of us envision when we talk about legal emigration, not the diseased, low-IQ illiterates that the left champions.
Ramsay's $72 Beef Wellington.
I’m not trying to be cynical, but there are accusations that this Freddy fellow is being paid by some rich and monied entity to be a PR promoter of the USA.
Can Anybody refute this ?
The people who speak out against Climate Change Alarmism are the best example of this type of Leftist slander.
If it paints America well, I don't care if he is being funded, honestly. If you look at the plethora of foreigners visting the US, this is completely a one-sided love-fest that they are having.
I love this country, and it warms my heart to see others who are not American that genuinely appear to as well, such as these two:
LINK: The World Cup Is Proving America Was Right
I love this. I personally think soccer is the most boring sport known to man, but that is just my opinion. What I love about this World Cup stuff is seeing people who have been brainwashed about the United States by their own governments and media getting the opportunity to see them for themselves that they have been lied to.
That is very valuable.
Good post. Thank you. 👍
Thank you, Allegra, haven’t had discourse with you for a while, hope all is well...:)
Can you prove its true?
At current prices (which are outrageous) that’s a good price for Gordon Ramsey Beef Wellington.
That’s half of the posters here now
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