#BOYCOTTUSA UPDATE: The U.S. Preparing for a $90 Billion Dollar Economic Disaster as the World Cup Approaches
Soccer fans are cancelling their US bound World Cup Vacations as America's tourism industry collapses
As the 2026 World Cup looms, a tidal wave of economic fallout is crashing toward the United States—and it's coming from north of the border. Canada, once the U.S.’s most reliable travel and trade partner, is leading a full-scale boycott that’s rapidly turning into a global rebuke of Trump’s America.
International travelers are increasingly reconsidering trips to the United States, with Canada taking point following policy shifts under President Donald Trump. Concerns over arbitrary detentions, entry denials, and political targeting of non-citizens have prompted many to stay away. Goldman Sachs estimates the resulting financial fallout could cost the U.S. economy up to $90 billion in 2025 alone.
Canadian visitors have seen the sharpest decline. In February, visits from Canada dropped 12.5%, and in March, 18% fewer Canadians traveled to the U.S. compared to the previous year. Airbnb bookings from Canadians in the U.S. also fell 12% in March year-over-year. Airlines have adjusted schedules in response to plummeting demand.
States like Florida and New York—once bustling with Canadian tourists—are now bracing for massive losses. Hotel rooms sit empty. Seasonal staff are being laid off. And across the northern border, Canadian retailers are doubling down on "Buy Canadian" campaigns, further deepening the American economic wound.
European travelers are also abandoning their U.S. travel plans. The U.S. saw a decline of over 100,000 visitors from the U.K., Spain, and Germany in just one month. Accor, one of the world’s largest hotel groups, reported a 25% drop in forward bookings to the U.S., while their CFO Martine Gerow made the trend crystal clear: “If they don’t go to the U.S., they usually end up going somewhere where Accor is present”—namely, Canada and Mexico.
When you’re threatening people you’re trying to welcome as you lock up your own people, tourists get a little “skiddish.”
With the World Cup on the horizon, the stakes are rising fast. Trump’s return to power has brought with it an alarming escalation in anti-immigrant rhetoric, politicized border enforcement, and threats to international guests. Just last month, U.S. border agents detained and interrogated two members of a UN cultural delegation entering the U.S. for a conference in Boston. Their crime? “Suspicious travel histories.”
Now imagine what happens when hundreds of thousands of soccer fans from “shithole countries” Trump is targeting in the US try to enter Trump's America.
Republican VP pick JD Vance hasn’t helped calm fears. In recent statements, he warned that “foreign influence” must be closely monitored and suggested the U.S. may need to "temporarily restrict entry" for certain groups during major events like the World Cup. To fans across the world, this sounds less like a celebration—and more like a trap.
It’s scaring the shit out of soccer fans who are canceling their plans to watch the World Cup in the US in favour of Canada and Mexico in droves.
Nice, huh?
World Cup fans have been offloading their tickets for US-based World Cup Games, choosing to go to Canada and Mexico instead, according to French travel group Accor. Canada is seeing a massive influx of bookings from the EU and Latin America, with bookings around the World Cup doubling over the past month.
FIFA insists the U.S. will be a "welcoming host," but the writing is on the wall. Already, international fans are pivoting toward matches in Canada and Mexico, where entry is easier, borders are less hostile, and visitors aren’t treated as suspects.
For travelers, the message is clear: if you want to see the World Cup, don’t risk detention in a Trump-run airport. Go to Vancouver. Go to Toronto. Go to Mexico City. But stay far away from the U.S.
This isn’t fearmongering. It’s a fact. With travel advisories stacking up, tourism collapsing, and global trust evaporating, the U.S. is stumbling into a World Cup economic disaster of its own making.
Several countries have also issued travel warnings to citizens planning to travel to the US for the World Cup, with the following advice:
Close your social media accounts (especially if you’ve been critical of the Trump Regime
Take a phone you don’t mind being confiscated
Don’t travel to the US if you’re pregnant
Don’t provoke US Customs agents
Don’t take your kids
Make sure your travel documentation and Passports are with you all the time
Sound travel advice for anyone visiting North Korea or China, not the US, but here we are.
America chose this when they voted for Trump. Canada and the free world are just accelerating it, stealing America’s tourism lunch in the process.
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I don't think Trump ever cared anything about saving money. What he's done every step of the way has cost us more, not less. All he cares about is amassing power and $$Billions for himself and his family. He's as transparent as glass. The amazing thing is that he's managed to do all this so fast and with so little effective blow back. He won the war before most of us even realized there was one. The disappearing-tourist situation is just one more casualty about which he cares nothing. He's so out of touch with reality, he may not even know it's happening.
So much for tRump's money-saving ideas and tactics. He is costing our country much more than he is saving.. I feel very bad for the business owners who are taking hits they can't afford.