Trump loves making deals.
Trump loves shiny things and status symbols and spectacle.
So does his buddy, FIFA president Giovanni Infantino. Having supported the president’s failed bid for a Nobel peace prize, Infantino today presented Trump with the inaugural FIFA peace prize—for someone who has undertaken “exceptional and extraordinary actions for peace and by doing so have united people across the world”—during a tacky and nonsensical spectacle at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. Oh, and he also secured a sweetheart “zero-dollar” arrangement with the center for today’s 2026 FIFA World Cup draw, ahead of the tournament playing out next summer across host cities in Canada, Mexico and the United States.
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