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FIFA gives President Donald Trump a peace prize in a departure from its traditional focus on sport (apnews.com)

submitted 1 month ago by resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] limelight79@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Most people bribe with money, but FIFA shrewdly found a cheaper way.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tim Apple gave him a gold phone.

[–] limelight79@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh don't forget the ultimate in classless gifts: A gold pager from Israel.

[–] Anne@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Still waiting for that one to explode

[–] KraeuterRoy@feddit.org 1 points 1 month ago

Considering FIFAs experience with sucking up two-bit dictators it's quite damning that they had it that easy with Trump. A cheap bauble and the aging narcissist rolls out the red carpet.

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 1 month ago

This truly is the worst timeline.

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 1 points 1 month ago

I was going to make a comment about how euopeans keep appeasing fascists, but the president of fifa is italian, the people who literally invented fascism, so that kind of skews things a bit.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I saw a video where he "introduced" someone to the FIFA president...

Trump was talking to them and said "you want to meet the president of soccer?" And before they can answer he yells at this jabroni to come over, never looks in his direction again, rambles a little about how impressive he is, and then just wanders off.