Throughout the 2026 World Cup draw on Friday, FIFA awarded President Donald Trump its first-ever “FIFA Peace Prize” — a gold medal and enormous trophy which can be completely, completely not a comfort prize after he misplaced out on the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this yr.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino lavished reward on Trump whereas handing over the award “in recognition of his exceptional and extraordinary actions to promote peace and unity around the world.”
A video that performed earlier than Trump took the stage described him as “a dynamic leader who has engaged in diplomatic efforts that created opportunities for dialog, de-escalation and stability, and who has championed the unifying power of football on the world stage.”
Earlier within the day, when reporters requested in regards to the upcoming award, the president repeated a model of his deceptive declare, saying he has settled “eight wars.”
Trump gave a brief acceptance speech after he was awarded FIFA’s obsequious new award, calling it “one of the great honors” of his life earlier than pivoting to ticket gross sales for the upcoming FIFA World Cup, which he claimed are shifting effectively.
“The numbers are beyond any numbers,” the president noticed.
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This yr’s Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Venezuelan opposition chief María Corina Machado. Trump claims Machado referred to as him afterward and mentioned she accepted the prize in Trump’s honor as a result of he was the one who “really deserved it.”
Infantino and Trump are shut allies. So shut, even, that in July, Infantino let Trump preserve the Membership World Cup’s 24-karat-gold-plated trophy, forcing FIFA to provide a duplicate to the event’s precise profitable group.
Trump’s acceptance of a peace prize coincides with rising furor over actions being checked out as a possible conflict crime carried out by his administration throughout an assault on alleged drug smugglers in September.
The president additionally just lately pardoned a former Honduran president who had been sentenced to a long time in jail for swamping america with a whole lot of tons of cocaine.
