Football’s governing body FIFA is reportedly extremely embarrassed at its absurd decision to award Donald Trump a ‘peace prize’ in December. And so it should be. But it needs some work on its excuses.

That embarrassment became incandescent after Trump promptly declared further racist restrictions on foreign nationals entering the US. These restrictions will bring chaos to the 2026 FIFA World Cup, most of whose matches are scheduled to be in the US this summer. Assuming anyone is daft enough to go to the US in the middle of Trump’s fascist take-over anyway.

And it became white hot this month after Trump announced new trade tariffs on European countries for refusing to roll over and give him Greenland.

Giving a peace award to Trump causes embarrassment

But FIFA’s flailing for excuses is just as embarrassing. In response to questions about the absurdity of the Trump award, the best a FIFA spokesperson could come up with was to point to Venezuelan US puppet Maria Machado giving her Nobel peace medal to Trump.

Given that Machado is, well, a US puppet who wanted Trump to attack Venezuela — which Trump then criminally did, before promptly ignoring her in a sulk over the Nobel award — that would be embarrassing enough. But the Nobel organisation immediately humiliated both Trump and Machado, issuing a statement mocking the idea she could give away its laureate to him.

But even then, Trump wasn’t done showing up FIFA. He wrote to the Norwegian PM this week pouting that he didn’t need to think about peace because the Nobel committee didn’t give him the peace award. There couldn’t be a clearer demonstration of his contempt for FIFA and its ‘participation award’.

Humiliating yourself and destroying your credibility to suck up to an orange, warmongering buffoon that doesn’t give a crap about you or your prize. We need a new word: embarrassing, even humiliating doesn’t even begin to get there.

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By Skwawkbox

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