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22. Trump Seen Quietly Pocketing FIFA Medal After Revealing That White House Also Kept Club World Cup Trophy
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 07:16 PM
13 hrs ago
https://people.com/trump-pockets-fifa-medal-club-world-cup-11774149
The president sparked controversy for a few reasons at the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup

By Meredith Kile Published on July 17, 2025 01:49PM EDT

NEED TO KNOW
  • President Donald Trump was seen pocketing one of the championship medals at the FIFA Club World Cup over the weekend
  • After handing out the awards to winning club Chelsea, the president also crashed their championship photo, drawing ire from soccer fans
  • Trump also boasted during a mid-game interview that the winning team would get a replica of the championship trophy because he had the real one on display in the White House


“[FIFA] said, ‘Could you hold this trophy for a little while?’ We put it in the Oval Office and then I said, ‘When are you going to pick up the trophy?' and [Infantino] said, ‘We’re never going to pick it up, you can have it forever in the Oval Office.’ ”

The trophy in fact has been on display since it was delivered to Trump in March. It was next to the presidential desk as Trump was visited by the Italian football club Juventus last month, ahead of their Round of 16 knockout loss to Real Madrid.


President Donald Trump meets with Italian soccer club Juventus FC at the White House on June 18. The FIFA Club World Cup trophy rests nearby.
Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty


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Appears their traditional focus is bs SheltieLover 17 hrs ago #1
FIFA is an extremely corrupt organization, and its president is incredibly corrupt as well. Escurumbele 16 hrs ago #11
No doubt! SheltieLover 16 hrs ago #12
I knew Nothing about them, But... Cha 15 hrs ago #15
Congrats, Infantino. Thanks to you, your new prize has already lost all significance. Grokenstein 17 hrs ago #2
Pathetic. RedWhiteBlueIsRacist 17 hrs ago #3
Pee-resident Pinhead Kid Berwyn 17 hrs ago #4
If they think this is gonna appease TSF so there's no problems with ICE at the games, it's not. He's a snake Deuxcents 17 hrs ago #5
And appeasing Stephen Miller would require the blood of innocent foreign children ms liberty 12 hrs ago #26
It's a bribe so he won't have ICE scoop the players up while they're in this country. Vinca 17 hrs ago #6
It's not players who are at risk, WestMichRad 16 hrs ago #7
Yep. And FIFA couldn't care less awesomerwb1 16 hrs ago #9
Also people working at the stadiums nt drmeow 16 hrs ago #10
FIFA Fake Idolatry for A**holes. LisaM 16 hrs ago #8
Utterly disgusting! ananda 16 hrs ago #13
Pathetic Luciferous 15 hrs ago #14
MaddowBlog-FIFA rewards Trump with a new, hastily arranged, entirely unwarranted 'peace' prize LetMyPeopleVote 15 hrs ago #16
FIFA changes its usual shakedown and corruption tactics for a new form of bribery and kickbacks Prairie Gates 15 hrs ago #17
I just watched . . . AverageOldGuy 14 hrs ago #18
Here's a peace prize, Sir. Now will you STFU about it? tanyev 14 hrs ago #19
What happened to keeping politics out of sports, Don? nt SouthBayDem 14 hrs ago #20
lol Weak. Solly Mack 13 hrs ago #21
Trump Seen Quietly Pocketing FIFA Medal After Revealing That White House Also Kept Club World Cup Trophy OKIsItJustMe 13 hrs ago #22
Come for the football, BidenRocks 12 hrs ago #23
Let's boycott ALL World Cup games MichMan 12 hrs ago #24
+1 Crowman2009 12 hrs ago #25
I thought Republicans disliked participation trophies...? Beartracks 11 hrs ago #27
trump is like a fat kid getting a participation trophy for most enthusiastic kickball player. LetMyPeopleVote 11 hrs ago #28
Guaranteed: he steals the World Cup trophy Hassler 11 hrs ago #29
Suckers. They should have made him wait till after the cup final Emrys 11 hrs ago #30
Well isn't that special! NBachers 10 hrs ago #31
Are we sure it wasn't the FIFA peas prize ToxMarz 8 hrs ago #32
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