Trump Awarded FIFA Peace Prize

FIFA President Gianni Infantino presented Donald Trump with a large, ostentatious golden trophy and a medal, which the president hung around his own neck. "This is what we do at the World Cup," he said. "A year ago, the United States was not going through a good moment, and now I have to say that we are the most powerful country in the world and we are going to continue to be so," Trump affirmed with conviction after receiving the award during the event preceding the draw for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which the country is co-hosting with Mexico and Canada. The head of world football's governing body considered that Trump "without a doubt deserves the first FIFA Peace Prize for his actions and for what he has achieved." President of the United States, Donald Trump, was awarded this Friday with the first FIFA Peace Prize for his "extraordinary action" to try to achieve peace in places such as Gaza, Southeast Asia, Africa or Ukraine, according to the world football's governing body. Since his return to the White House last January, Trump has tried to capitalize as much as possible on the various peace agreements, eight according to him, in which he has successfully mediated this year. The granting of this ad hoc award comes at a time when Trump has ordered a military deployment to force the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, to leave power and his army is summarily bombing boats that it says are transporting drugs in the Caribbean and the Pacific, actions that Congress is now analyzing to see if they constitute a crime. "The world is now a safer place," Trump said. Meanwhile, civil organizations raised this week their concern about the prospect of the championship being held in a country that is not respecting due process when it comes to, for example, detaining and deporting immigrants or foreign citizens, and criticized FIFA's lack of transparency, which has not made public its criteria for granting the award. "This is what people are looking for here today. We want to live in a safe world, in a safe environment," he added. "The coordination, the friendship and the relationship have been exceptional," Trump added. "We want to come together. The Republican asserted that it was difficult to mediate in several conflicts this year and highlighted the presence at the event, held at the Kennedy Center in Washington, of the heads of government of Mexico and Canada, Claudia Sheinbaum and Mark Carney, with whom he said he works "closely" for the organization of the tournament to be held between June and July next year. "This is what we want from a leader, a leader who cares about the people."