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OMFG - Trump just won the very first FIFA Peace Prize (Original Post) OnlinePoker Dec 2025 OP
FIFA has a peace prize? Ocelot II Dec 2025 #1
I'm guessing they created this award just for him so he doesn't disrupt the World Cup next year. BannonsLiver Dec 2025 #4
I'm quite sure that's what it is. Ocelot II Dec 2025 #5
It's a peace-offering from one criminal organization to another. Corrupt through and through. Eugene Dec 2025 #10
Ding ding malaise Dec 2025 #22
For those who kill without using their hands lame54 Dec 2025 #13
It does now SSJVegeta Dec 2025 #30
At the Kennedy Center underpants Dec 2025 #2
Yeah, that was plainly telegraphed when FIFA announced they were making such a prize. RockRaven Dec 2025 #3
And they have him doing the draw itself...ruining everything as usual Prairie Gates Dec 2025 #6
WTF is it anyway malaise Dec 2025 #7
They're trying to protect themselves from a massive monetary shakedown. rubbersole Dec 2025 #18
FIFA officials would know all about monetary shakedowns EdmondDantes_ Dec 2025 #31
FIFA is perhaps the most corrupt sporting organization ever. CanonRay Dec 2025 #8
International Olympic Committee isn't far behind. n/t OnlinePoker Dec 2025 #12
Well let's be pellucidly clear malaise Dec 2025 #21
This is a made-up prize to deter Don-The-Con from . . . peggysue2 Dec 2025 #9
He got the made-up consolation prize. sinkingfeeling Dec 2025 #11
Right, to the fascist who tried violently overtake our government RiverStone Dec 2025 #14
FIFA Peace Prize is an oxymoron Raven123 Dec 2025 #15
For a malaise Dec 2025 #23
Who's surprised by this? MustLoveBeagles Dec 2025 #16
I'm shocked - shocked, I tell you muriel_volestrangler Dec 2025 #17
The Guardian's captions are priceless muriel_volestrangler Dec 2025 #19
ROFL malaise Dec 2025 #25
I don't believe anyone expected otherwise. Totally Tunsie Dec 2025 #20
That should make MAGATs thrilled knowing Trump is soccer fan. Emile Dec 2025 #24
I thought they hated Participation Trophies leftstreet Dec 2025 #29
He blew up a boat to celebrate, followed by some fine imported cocaine from his favored cartel Blues Heron Dec 2025 #26
Participation trophy. Drum Dec 2025 #27
FIFA Peace prize is such a disingenuous move. Baitball Blogger Dec 2025 #28
At last, peace between soccer teams Mysterian Dec 2025 #32
The only thing more embarrassing than creating this for Trump EdmondDantes_ Dec 2025 #33
Or to put it another way.. Permanut Dec 2025 #34
MaddowBlog-FIFA rewards Trump with a new, hastily arranged, entirely unwarranted 'peace' prize LetMyPeopleVote Dec 2025 #35
"Won" - another brownnosed bribe UTUSN Dec 2025 #36
I was very impressed by the presenter, keeping a straight face throughout. JustABozoOnThisBus Dec 2025 #37
trump is like a fat kid getting a participation trophy for most enthusiastic kickball player. LetMyPeopleVote Dec 2025 #38
We get So Much Mileage out of that Hillary & Obama Laughing photo! electric_blue68 Dec 2025 #40
"...Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence"...WTH does That even mean?! electric_blue68 Dec 2025 #39
The dementia-befuddled Orange Hellbeast looked like he genuinely believed he was being given a real honor. 🤣 ShazzieB Dec 2025 #41
Corrupt organization gives symbolic blowjob to corrupt politician. LoveSucky Dec 2025 #42

Ocelot II

(130,304 posts)
1. FIFA has a peace prize?
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 01:36 PM
Dec 2025

So when do MLB and the NFL and the NHL start handing out peace prizes? When they get the word that Trump wants one?

What the actual platinum-plated fuck is this lunacy?

BannonsLiver

(20,515 posts)
4. I'm guessing they created this award just for him so he doesn't disrupt the World Cup next year.
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 01:47 PM
Dec 2025

What they’re going to find out - the hard way - is that once the initial dopamine rush goes away he will go back to holding them hostage with threats etc.

Ocelot II

(130,304 posts)
5. I'm quite sure that's what it is.
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 01:49 PM
Dec 2025

I'm also quite sure there weren't any other candidates for the "prize."

Eugene

(67,080 posts)
10. It's a peace-offering from one criminal organization to another. Corrupt through and through.
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 01:54 PM
Dec 2025

FIFA need need the Slobfather to back off from disrupting the World Cup (more than he already has). So FIFA concocts a sports "Nobel" peace prize to stroke his ego.

MF47 is the inaugural recipient, but wait there's more! Pedonald and his goons get to form a committee to select future recipients.

The Guardian covers FIFA's corrupt process in gory detail.

Revealed: Myanmar junta ‘crony’ given key role behind Fifa peace prize

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/dec/04/revealed-myanmar-junta-crony-given-key-role-behind-fifa-peace-prize

RockRaven

(19,207 posts)
3. Yeah, that was plainly telegraphed when FIFA announced they were making such a prize.
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 01:47 PM
Dec 2025
Another reason, not that we need more, why FIFA is the most disgusting corrupted scum of the earth.

rubbersole

(11,183 posts)
18. They're trying to protect themselves from a massive monetary shakedown.
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 02:03 PM
Dec 2025

A preemptive taint hickey designed to make tsf think they like him. Actually, so far it appears to be working. Like Finland giving him an engraved gold bar like the ones stacked up in Ft Knox. Quit pretending class and dignity carry any weight. Save time and energy - just put the shiny object in his lap and go on about your business unimpeded. Like Tim Apple....

EdmondDantes_

(1,705 posts)
31. FIFA officials would know all about monetary shakedowns
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 02:36 PM
Dec 2025

Sure they are usually on the other end of it, but but they know it better than most.

malaise

(295,470 posts)
21. Well let's be pellucidly clear
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 02:10 PM
Dec 2025

Back in the day, most of the international sports bodies were run by royals, aristocrats, barons, nobles, fascists, racists and woman haters.

peggysue2

(12,517 posts)
9. This is a made-up prize to deter Don-The-Con from . . .
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 01:54 PM
Dec 2025

Messing with the World Cup schedule and venues.

Another day, another scam to kiss Donnie's fat ass.

RiverStone

(7,278 posts)
14. Right, to the fascist who tried violently overtake our government
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 02:00 PM
Dec 2025

On 1/6!

What type of BS award is this?

muriel_volestrangler

(106,090 posts)
19. The Guardian's captions are priceless
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 02:08 PM
Dec 2025

"Ina shocking turn of events, Gianni Infantino gives Donald Trump a shiny gold bauble"
"Donald Trump with the First Annual Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence"
"The American president accepts his medal and puts it around his own neck, before Gianni Infantino blows smoke up his nether regions by reading from his official Fifa Award certificate and telling him how great he is. “We want to see hope, we want to see unity, we want to see a future,” says Gianni. “This is what we want to see from a leader and you definitely deserve the first Fifa Peace Prize. You can always count on my support to help you make peace around the world. Thank you Mr President.”

Pass the bucket."

"Donald Trump reveals that this is one of the biggest honours of his life and then proceeds to reiterate how great he is, for the benefit of anyone who might have been in the rest room while Gianni was talking.

He tells the audience about the “millions and millions of lives” he and Infantino have saved, before mentioning the huge number of tickets Fifa have sold for the World Cup, while steering a wide berth of mentioning Fifa’s dynamic pricing strategy. He also nods to his Mexican and Canadian counterparts. It’s a mercifully short speech."

Totally Tunsie

(11,799 posts)
20. I don't believe anyone expected otherwise.
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 02:08 PM
Dec 2025

FIFA needs Dozing Donnie's cooperation to not disrupt the games.
The FIFA president, Gianni Infantino, is "good friends" with DD.
The venue for the draw - the (still) Kennedy Center, managed by DD, was "donated" for FIFA's use.
Ivanka tRump was recently appointed to the advisory board of a new $100 million FIFA charity fund for education.
DD was selected to do the actual FIFA draw.

The "fix", as they say, was in.

Blues Heron

(8,738 posts)
26. He blew up a boat to celebrate, followed by some fine imported cocaine from his favored cartel
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 02:18 PM
Dec 2025

Baitball Blogger

(52,237 posts)
28. FIFA Peace prize is such a disingenuous move.
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 02:26 PM
Dec 2025

That's like getting a decoder ring out of a Captain Crunch cereal box and thinking you're in the same league as Alan Turing.

EdmondDantes_

(1,705 posts)
33. The only thing more embarrassing than creating this for Trump
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 02:45 PM
Dec 2025

Is that Trump is such a insecure toddler that he needs this as validation. I'd be embarrassed to get something like this, but Trump isn't cursed with a sense of self-respect.

Maybe we can get him a crown from a kid's meal at Burger King so he can be a "monarch" to go with his "peace prize".

LetMyPeopleVote

(179,022 posts)
35. MaddowBlog-FIFA rewards Trump with a new, hastily arranged, entirely unwarranted 'peace' prize
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 06:01 PM
Dec 2025

Last edited Fri Dec 5, 2025, 09:32 PM - Edit history (1)

FIFA rewards Trump with a new, hastily arranged, entirely unwarranted ‘peace’ prize

The fact that Trump put the ridiculous “FIFA Peace Prize” medal around his own neck added an unintentionally amusing — and oddly apt — twist on the award ceremony. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-12-05T18:01:52.369Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/fifa-rewards-trump-with-a-new-hastily-arranged-entirely-unwarranted-peace-prize

Donald Trump went to embarrassing lengths in his campaign for a Nobel Peace Prize — to no avail. Soon after, Gianni Infantino, who leads FIFA, soccer’s global governing body, got to work trying to make his friend in the White House feel better.

In fact, Infantino directed the international organization to create its own honor, called the “FIFA Peace Prize — Football Unites the World.” The New York Times reported that the effort “was so hastily arranged that it surprised several of the body’s most senior officials, including board members and vice presidents, according to four soccer executives briefed on the events.”

Take a wild guess who won the award.




.......The obvious problem with these developments is that Trump doesn’t deserve a peace prize. The president is, after all, embroiled in an ongoing controversy surrounding his administration’s alleged war crimes, which dovetails with a series of related incidents that include Republicans’ threats targeting Latin American countries and Nigeria, preemptive military strikes on targets in Iran and a bombing campaign in Yemen.......

But there are other problems just below the surface of this new peace prize. What we have here is an example of a foreign businessman trying to curry favor with the White House, concocting a dubious prize that he knows Trump will appreciate.

Infantino isn’t alone. Axios recently reported that officials in Switzerland persuaded Trump to lower tariff rates by deploying a delegation of industry tycoons to the White House bearing gifts, including “a special Rolex desktop clock, a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar, and loads of flattery.”

The report added, “Trump loves such pampering, and the word’s out among nations and companies seeking his favor. Tributes fit for a king — especially gold — catch his eyes and his heart.” (The Swiss gold bar, which sounds a bit similar to the gift that helped land former Sen. Bob Menendez in prison, was stamped with “45” and “47” in homage to Trump’s presidential terms.)

And now FIFA has rewarded the American president with a gold honor of its own.

ShazzieB

(22,521 posts)
41. The dementia-befuddled Orange Hellbeast looked like he genuinely believed he was being given a real honor. 🤣
Sun Dec 7, 2025, 11:30 AM
Dec 2025

And he grabbed it like a child bring given a new toy by Santa! Surreal.

I have to admit that it was an ingenious move from FIFA. They knew exactly what to do to get on his good side. He and FIFA are truly a match made in hell!


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