Phony peace prize for a fake president

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FIFA’s phony “peace prize” can’t redeem Donald Trump
Trump is an incompetent warmonger, and an elderly man in obvious decline. A made-up medal won't change that

By Heather Digby Parton
Columnist
Published December 8, 2025 6:45AM (EST)


(Salon) The “peace president” accepted a very special honor last week. Having been denied the Nobel Peace Prize he so desperately covets, Donald Trump was awarded the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize, which was invented only last month by global soccer czar Gianni Infantino. The prize is a large trophy accompanied by a medal that made so excited he snatched it from the box like a furtive five-year-old with a box of chocolates and put it on himself. Infantino, who is president of FIFA and one of the newer members of Trump’s admiring entourage (for some reason, he showed up a few weeks ago at a ceremony for the Gaza peace process), showered Trump with meaningless praise, saying, “You definitely deserve the first FIFA Peace Prize for your action, for what you have obtained — in your way — but you obtained it in an incredible way…”

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The optics of this silly flattery by FIFA, juxtaposed with the burgeoning Pentagon scandal, in which it appears that Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth are overseeing a policy of repeated war crimes against people in small boats thousands of miles from U.S. shores, was stark. Members of Congress emerged from a briefing with the Navy admiral in charge of the Sept. 2 strike, in which two survivors were summarily executed as they floated on broken pieces of a small speedboat. Legislators looked ashen and somber, and one of their number, Rep. Jim Himes, D-Conn., declared it “one of the most troubling things” he’d ever witnessed.

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Meanwhile, here at home, Trump continues his war against all immigrants. He is now engaging in rank racism, calling Somali immigrants “garbage” and threatening to revoke the citizenship of anyone he finds distasteful, which by pure coincidence seems to mean all people of color. He is banning half the world’s population from entering the U.S. and virtually ending the asylum process for everyone except white South Africans. The sight of masked, armed secret police in unmarked vehicles brutally assaulting anyone they choose on streets all across America is straight out of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s Romania. The language he uses is hostile, cruel, vulgar and degrading.

Now consider the absurdity of Trump’s insistence that he’s a prince of peace and just cares about “saving lives, millions of lives.” He actually said, “As president, my highest aspiration is to bring peace and stability to the world.” Sycophants are knocking each other over to give him prizes and kiss his ring, telling him exactly what he wants to hear. But the bigger question is whether anyone’s actually buying it? ......................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2025/12/08/fifas-phony-peace-prize-cant-redeem-donald-trump/

[Kid Berwyn]

1. War is Peace.

Freedom is Slavery.

Ignorance is Strength.

— George Orwell, 1984

[malaise]

2. Good read

Get thee to the greatest page

[surfered]

3. He got another

[Emrys]

4. I just heard the FIFA committee is going to investigate the prize and the shenanigans around it

since Infantino didn't discuss it with any of them. Tacky as the trophy and medal were, they must have cost a bit.

Oh how cruel if Trump's precious baubles were tarnished by scandal and he even had to return them. And worse if his new pal Infantino was disgraced and even deposed.

[C_U_L8R]

5. Just like his bogus golf trophies

As fake as the gaudy gold ornaments he’s plastered all over the White House.
What a phony.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

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