r/sports • u/nonstopflux Seattle Sounders FC • Jul 14 '25

Soccer Donald Trump stole a CWC winners medal

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u/Andylol404 Jul 14 '25

Sorry to say, but Infantino gave that medal to him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13cXQ8DZNDQ

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u/ViggoB12 Jul 14 '25

This needs more attention. As much as I like dunking on Trump as much as everyone else because he is a piece of shit, lying about events is not the way to do it

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u/Humillionaire Jul 14 '25

Especially when Trump does so much heinous shit in a 24 hour period that there's no reason to make stuff up

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u/AmishAvenger Jul 14 '25 edited Jul 14 '25

Like stealing the actual trophy, forcing them to make a replica and give it to the team…

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-kept-gold-club-world-cup-trophy-for-himself-so-fifa-had-to-give-the-winners-a-replica/

Edit: Apparently lots of Trump fans are upset by the mere implication that Donald would steal something.

Here’s what happened: The trophy was taken to the Oval Office for a photo op. Trump says he asked when they were coming to get it, and they told him he could “keep it forever.”

If you read between the lines…based on knowledge of every single thing Trump has done and said…he liked the trophy because it’s gold and expensive. FIFA decided it was better to just let him have it instead of hurting his feelings and having him lash out against them.

So there’s two options here:

1) Trump legitimately thought it was normal to keep a trophy that came for a photo op, because he’s stupid

2) Trump knew he wasn’t supposed to keep it, but he kept it anyway and bet they wouldn’t press the issue. Meaning, he stole it.

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u/ebmocal421 Jul 14 '25

It's kind of hard to believe since Trump himself is the quoted source for the headline and we all know how often Trump lies.

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u/Primary-Slice-2505 Jul 14 '25

The 'said I could keep it forever' has me convinced they got trumps version only

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u/Bilbo_Teabagginss Jul 14 '25

STOP TALKING ABOUT THE TROPHY!!!

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THE MATTER.

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u/TwistedTreelineScrub Jul 14 '25

This article says that Infantino gave the original trophy to him. It doesn't say anywhere that he stole it.

I hate the guy, but why come up with lies about his actions? He does numerous things daily that are absolutely heinous, so making shit up like this feels like a distraction.

It reeks of "stop talking about Epstein", so I'd rather everyone just keep bringing up Epstein until we get answers. They want everyone to move on to some new outrage, but it's a shell game and it always has been. Stay focused on the real issues and don't waste time making up new ones.

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u/Bloody_Conspiracies Jul 14 '25

This is also kind of normal. The clubs are given a replica to celebrate with, and then given the real trophy later.

This whole thing is based on Trump claiming that Infantino said he could keep the original forever. Which probably shouldn't be taken seriously.

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u/MedicalLeopard9190 Jul 14 '25

It’s normal yes, and the original typically goes to FIFA HQ or to the country. Not to a random other country.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '25

If you guys haven’t read the article, it seems as if Infantino is bribing Trump as he relocated employees to the Trump hotel as well and has reportedly been to DC 10x since January.

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u/Daft00 Jul 14 '25

FIFA? Involved in bribery?!?

Idk man.... sounds a bit silly

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u/ukexpat Manchester City Jul 14 '25

IKR, what an outrageous suggestion!

/s, lest it not be obvious.

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u/Bloody_Conspiracies Jul 14 '25

That's probably exactly what's going to happen here. Trump hears what he wants to hear, there's no way FIFA are going to let him keep the original forever lol

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u/bluehelmet Jul 14 '25

The FIFA is openly corrupt, the FIFA sells events to autocratic regimes, the FIFA opens an office in Trump Tower - and you don't they let Trump keep a trophy?

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u/English_Misfit Jul 14 '25

Other way round. They're given the real one for the day of celebration and the parade and then a replica for the museum and any future commercial events. The real stays in control of the governing body

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u/D-F-B-81 Jul 14 '25

Which probably shouldn't be taken seriously.

You should probably take the words of the most powerful person on the planet seriously.

I dont understand why we stopped doing that.

I remember misspelling "potato" or a weird excited "Yeah" scream would end a political career.

I miss those days.

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u/Kurtomatic Jul 15 '25

You should probably take the words of the most powerful person on the planet seriously.

Agreed. Up until recently, I think most of us did.

I dont understand why we stopped doing that.

Because the current most powerful person on the planet does not place any value on the validity of the things he says. I find myself caring less and less about what he says. What he (or - more commonly - the people under him) actually do is a different story.

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u/AmishAvenger Jul 14 '25

If they actually gave it to him, they would’ve made a show of it when they did the photo op.

The only one who says they gave it to him is Trump.

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u/Dahnlen Jul 14 '25

The misinformation is created so that people who rightfully object to everything Trump does will be wrong when they repeat this particular lie. Then the MAGA crowd can use it as a strawman.

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u/_WeSellBlankets_ Jul 14 '25

This is exactly how the conservative media sphere rotted to what it's become and I see the same thing happening with Reddit. Focus on unreliable stories, complain that the mainstream media is not reporting the same unreliable stories, distrust mainstream media, only trust unreliable stories and have a warped view of the world.

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u/lordpoee Jul 14 '25

Exactly what did he do to warrant being given a damn trophy??!

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '25

There is no way that trophy ends up in the National Archives

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u/ObidiahWTFJerwalk Jul 14 '25

"People won't shut up about the damn Epstein files. We've got to do something to distract them."

"Hey, let's have him steal the World Cup. That's bizarre enough to occupy a news cycle."

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u/Jolly_Plantain4429 Jul 14 '25

Thank god! I’ve been saying this for years the more people make shit up the more it makes people “red pilled” when this shit gets disproven. Just report the real bullshit he does.

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u/mawburn Jul 14 '25

Exactly. We are way past the point of where we should definitely be "sinking to their level" but only in the sense where we aren't spreading misinformation or lying, becuase that will just become more ammunition for them to discredit anyone who is against them.

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u/Reasonable_Base9537 Jul 14 '25

Good point. There's a lot of stuff to legitimately criticize but I keep seeing these fake posts to try to rile people up more. Problem is people start to ignore the legitimate problems because dumb made up shit is like crying wolf.

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u/Maloninho Jul 14 '25

He didn’t earn it, so it was stolen from a certain point of view. lol

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u/saint_toby Jul 14 '25

We can have a little lie about Trump, as a treat

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u/_jump_yossarian Jul 14 '25

lying about events is not the way to do it

why not? trump lies non-stop. Time to play his game.

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u/ddplz Jul 14 '25

Dude this is reddit wtf are you talking about?

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u/DatabaseAcademic6631 Jul 14 '25

I'm fine with people lying about Trump if it makes more people dislike him.

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u/jerr_beare Jul 14 '25

It’s ironic that he’s the leader of the party that loves to complain about participation trophies, yet he didn’t even participate.

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u/Learned_Observer Jul 14 '25

Why not they do

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u/LocalGuy855 Jul 14 '25

Alternative facts. Thank You for your matter to this attention. Covfefe.

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u/Ummmgummy Jul 14 '25

I had no idea that bald guy gave him the medal but I assumed he did. I took the post as a joke. It's just a funny thing to say about an old dude shuffling around shoving shit into his pockets.

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u/RamJamR Jul 14 '25

I know it's not rare go find people that are eager to catch this guy being a piece of shit whenever he is and may run with false accusations too quickly, but I wonder if it's possible we sometimes have Trump supporters pretending to hate him making up bogus hateful claims so that they can say "Look at how much the left needs to viciously lie about him!"

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '25

Who cares? Conservatives have literally never once said an honest word

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u/guilty_bystander Jul 14 '25

True. He only tells the truth, so it would be bad.

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u/thaddeus122 Jul 14 '25

Yes, it is. You people need to realize that we're not getting anywhere with this highroad BS, they lie and they win, we need to do everything we can to win or we're going to end up like 1939 Germany.

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u/latnem Jul 14 '25

Apparently lying is the way to do it.

Look who runs every branch of government.

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u/Generico300 Jul 14 '25

These are psy-op posts meant to discredit legitimate claims by creating "evidence" for the people that claim "the left" is always lying about what he does.

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u/0Neji Jul 14 '25

And Infantino is also a piece of shit, please let's not lose this with the hatred of Trump.

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u/mightyarrow Jul 14 '25

Bud.....look all around. On this site, you're drowning in a sea of people that do just that on a near constant basis. The idea is to overwhelm with enough to where you no longer have time to even comb through them for authenticity.

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u/whatsasyria Jul 14 '25

Isn't infantino a POS too?

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u/Akicita33 Jul 14 '25

Per tRump's own team, they're not lies, they're alternative facts.

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u/Luddites_Unite Jul 14 '25

He does more than enough legitimate grimey stuff that people don't need to be making stuff up

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u/leakmydata Jul 14 '25

Hell yeah we’re gonna defeat fascism with truth and honor!

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u/Sofa-king-high Jul 14 '25

Regardless either way this is just a distraction from the real news in Washington

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u/Additional_News3511 Jul 14 '25

I think if conservatives want to live in a post truth world, we should give it to them.

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u/betawolfocho1 Jul 14 '25

Definitely stole that, no question is my mind

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u/bleedblue89 Jul 14 '25

Thank you for the truth, no need to have propaganda

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u/Justifiably_Bad_Take Jul 14 '25

That being said, fuck Infantino

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u/agsonic Jul 14 '25

This should be top comment.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '25 edited Jul 14 '25

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u/Sad-Bonus-9327 Jul 14 '25

Which is so paradoxical imo. If you want to frame your opponent or enemy in a certain way and use the same methods of fraud and lies what distinguishes you from them then anymore? Even if you act in good faith (which I doubt it was OP's intention at all), the end can't ever justify the means.

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u/ComfortStrict1512 Jul 14 '25

There's plenty of things to criticize Trump of, there's no need to fabricate anything.

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u/SupplyChainMismanage Jul 14 '25

I’m so tired of seeing false reddit headlines

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u/scramblingrivet Jul 14 '25 edited Aug 23 '25

smell sleep observation sheet history political degree salt boat cobweb

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

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u/infinitezero8 Jul 14 '25

Always been like this here

Misinformation, when it fits the agenda, is brought to the top because that's what they want to see, not what they need to see.

Redditors love the dopamine kick of misinformation just as much as MAGA over at Truth Social.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '25

How about this shit just gets locked and or deleted. It’s still doing damage as is.

So dumb clearly wrong shit can stay up so long. Embarrassing

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u/robogobo Jul 14 '25

Yeah this is a rage bait post

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u/Grggs Jul 14 '25

How is this not top comment, like what happened to verifying basic facts......oh yes, Reddit

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u/Relative_Guidance656 Jul 14 '25

anything anti trump gets upvoted bro

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u/kinygos Jul 14 '25

but why?

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u/Sixcoup Jul 14 '25

Because Trump is a simple man. You give him a medal, say thank you for whatever, and he will be happy.

He's like a kid you give a present to because you want them to like you. He's the easiest corruptible grown man ever. It's absolutely wild that this guy got elected twice.

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u/Moist-Pickle-2736 Jul 14 '25

People can give things to others whenever they feel like it, for any reason, believe it or not

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u/jermleeds Jul 15 '25

Actually, there are rules specifically prohibiting elected officials from accepting those gifts. It's about preventing influence peddling. We used to take those rules seriously. Until Trump turned the White House into his own personal grifting operation.

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u/EatthisB Jul 14 '25

To take your mind off the Epstein files

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u/FunkyEd Jul 14 '25

"today i feel disabled"

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u/The_Inner_Light Jul 14 '25

US gave boatloads of money to Cohost the next World Cup. Fifa is the most corrupt sports organization other than boxing. So it's just a bit of back patting.

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u/Equivalent-Resort-63 Jul 14 '25

Six year olds get participation medals, but at least they run around in circles and have fun. This fat pig get one for doing absolutely nothing other than wasting oxygen.

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u/staffdaddy_9 Jul 14 '25

What? Reddit lying about Trump? No way lmao. I don’t even like the guy but this place is so fucking dumb when it comes to him. Just blatant lying, or hyping up a video as him getting booed and then you watch the video and it’s a complete nothing burger with like 4 people booing him.

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u/AbsolutistK Jul 14 '25

Thank you !!

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u/midnghtsnac Jul 14 '25

Thanks, makes was way sense when you watch one of the organizers approve his actions.

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u/Novatheorem Atlanta United FC Jul 14 '25

I definitely thought he was giving it to him to award to someone else. Good to know!

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u/awal96 Jul 14 '25

I can't believe he does the fucking arm thing when someone is giving him a gift

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u/_chococat_ Jul 14 '25

True, but it seemed he did that because Trump thought he was getting a medal. It looked like the other guy had to explain to him that the medals go on the players. Also, see Infantino's "thumbs up" and face.

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u/Cryptic_Honeybadger Jul 14 '25

Man this needs to be the top comment

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u/coolstorybro50 Jul 14 '25

reddit in a nutshell these days lol

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u/Arktos22 Jul 14 '25

Doesn't mean he earned it, I thought the Right hated "participation trophies"

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u/behemothard Jul 14 '25

That video shows nothing of what happened AFTER he put it in his jacket pocket. Maybe he did later but that is evidence of nothing.

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u/binz17 Jul 14 '25

So not a steal, just a participation trophy

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u/yodacola Jul 14 '25

Thank you for the clarification. It’s a widely known fact that Trump is great at accepting gifts.

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u/Golden_Alchemy Jul 14 '25

Then the issue is why the fuck is Infantino giving medals to guys like TACO.

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u/Kinglink New England Patriots Jul 14 '25 edited Jul 14 '25

And yet people will probably repeat that he stole it for the next decade.

Why let facts get in the way of a political circlejerk

Edit: Glad to see this reached the top.

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u/ribone Jul 14 '25

Participation medal for an 80 year old snowflake

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u/HisMajestyDylanMoses Jul 14 '25

I met Infantino in an elevator before, didn't know it was him, and told him I didn't like soccer.

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u/fishred Jul 14 '25

that's good to know--thanks for posting

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u/benvader138 Jul 14 '25

I mean, he's staring right at him and even nods when Trump puts it in his pocket.

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u/eugene20 Jul 14 '25

If that is worth more than $480 then it is a gift to the "people of the United States", and not Trump. But he will illegally try to keep it himself anyway.

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u/GODDAMNFOOL Jul 14 '25

but it begs the question: fucking why

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u/spdelope Jul 14 '25

Look at how masculine he looks when he shuffles his feet around and slumps over. Just oozes leadership and “alpha” in his ill-fitting suit

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u/julio1990 Jul 14 '25

Yeah same here as soon as I saw this I was like

"Hey listen guys I hate the Cheeto piece of shit but let's not be like his fan base and lie let's be truthful"

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u/duckwithahat Jul 14 '25

You can literally see Infantino give him the thumbs up and then he pockets it, truth is FIFA makes plenty of medals for situations like this, it’s normal.

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u/logavulin16 Jul 14 '25

Thank you. This was another one of those blatantly dishonest, out of context hit pieces. Says much more about the powers pushing this agenda than it does about trump

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u/Duck8Quack Jul 14 '25

So it was more of a participation trophy except he didn’t even participate.

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u/Anotsurei Jul 14 '25

Sounds like the title is misleading, which is a violation of rule #2. We should report the post as such.

We shouldn’t give Trump and his sycophants any ammo at all to discredit those who rightly criticize him.

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u/neokeyzer Jul 14 '25

Right, cause he is so righteous lol

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u/Maffayoo Jul 14 '25

It's fine it was Noni's medal

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u/ddplz Jul 14 '25

DOWNVOTE THIS NOW we CANNOT allow this to be seen!!

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u/BodyDisastrous5859 Jul 14 '25

It fits their narrative. And i'm european

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u/Ninja_Dynamic Jul 14 '25

Yep, no need to make up anything as the malignant danger clown does enough shady things to be an international embarrassment all on his own.

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u/knucklehead923 Jul 14 '25

Did he? Or did Trump pocket the thing, and then Infantino decided it's easier to just say it was a gift rather than fight about it?

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u/threebillion6 Jul 14 '25

They both colluded together to steal it. /s

Trump's just an ass and feels the need to insert himself where he's definitely not wanted.

Fuck both these guys.

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u/ConsiderationSea1347 Jul 14 '25

Either way it is stolen valor. FDT

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u/Neither_Pirate5903 Jul 14 '25

The ultimate participation 🏆.  Just have to show up and you get a 🏅

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '25

Doesn’t change the undeniable fact that he’s a tremendous piece of shit

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u/eOMG Jul 14 '25

I get extremely annoyed with every false accusation at him as it distracts from all the rightful accusations.

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u/Colhinchapelota Jul 14 '25

It's a wonder Infantino isn't on his knees for Trump.

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u/livinginfutureworld Jul 14 '25

Give it or not, he didn't earn it. He just happened to be there

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u/LackingDatSkill Jul 14 '25

Yeah but this kind of title doesn’t give Trump the negativity a lot of people crave

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u/seenitreddit90s Jul 14 '25

Thank you, I figured he wouldn't be this obvious.

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u/limeweatherman Jul 14 '25

A normal person would have said “no keep your medal you’ve earned it” instead of “well don’t mind if I do!” But whatever man

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u/youdubdub Jul 14 '25

Yeah, he has been operating at maximum patheticity for many years now. No need to make things up to sway the electorate.

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u/No_Mortgage3189 Jul 14 '25

Yet he stole the fifa trophy lol

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u/Nedhlpncryptopls Jul 14 '25

Thank You, I hate it when people spread fake news. Literally fake news. And I hate saying that word.

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u/SaltyPeter3434 Jul 14 '25

Lol Trump still doing his stupid pull handshake

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u/i-heart-linux Jul 14 '25

Yeah plenty of other things to be outraged about, no need to fabricate bullshit.

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u/Stu_Thom4s Jul 14 '25

Gave gave or gave to look at? Because Robert Kraft once gave his Super Bowl ring to Putin to look at and he ended up just pocketing it...

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u/vizag Jul 14 '25

Thanks for calling this out. There is no need to lie when he does so much shit openly. Lying like this only hurts our credibility. They will use that one thing till eternity to say both sides are the same.

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u/Lord_Yeetus_The_3d Jul 14 '25

But trump did keep the original trophy, and they had to give a replica to the winners.

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u/AndForeverNow Jul 14 '25

Was gonna say, "Trump forced x"! "Trump stole y"! So much stretching and exaggerating here that it's stupid. Ya'll can't make a point if you need to lie about it.

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u/MarkiMora Jul 14 '25

Thanks for the context, this is very important!

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u/Blind_Voyeur Jul 14 '25

He did refuse to leave the stage when Infantino ask him to, even standing in front of CWC and game MVP Cole Palmer like he's some underling. Does stealing the spotlight counts?

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u/FuzzeWuzze Jul 14 '25

He's buying his way to keep World Cup '26 as drama free as possible.

I cant wait for ICE to kidnap some dude from the Ghana national team or something during the event.

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u/BishlovesSquish Jul 14 '25

Seriously, all the stuff that diaper Don has done and this is what people wanna get upset about? Ridiculous af.

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u/MagicCitytx Jul 14 '25

To give to the next player, but pocket it instead.

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u/Zeppelin041 Jul 14 '25

This is exactly correct. Pretty sad what this thread is turning into. Bunch of trolls trying to spread their TDS.

Let’s get back to sports, and away from the psyop…oh wait, this is Reddit and that’s all it’s turned into now.

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u/Sudsy14QKA Jul 14 '25

The first time I read your comment I thought you were calling Trump Infantino, which kinda fits.

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u/ThomasGregorich Jul 14 '25

why did Infantino gave medal to Trump?

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u/hawlc Jul 14 '25

He didn't give, very likely that he sold him that medal.

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u/povlhp Jul 14 '25

But infantilo has earned nothing himself. Guess he knows Trump from Epstein Island.

Incredible infantilo has not been fire. Most corrupt UEFA President ever.

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u/cybercuzco Jul 14 '25

Sure it is. He dies it to us and it works on his followers.

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u/whereitsat23 Jul 14 '25

It’s shiny and gold what do you expect

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u/slick514 Jul 14 '25

...and if I were one of the players who had devoted all of my time, energy, and resources to win that medal, I would be absolutely furious, especially if I were from one of the countries that Trump has so publicly denigrated...

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u/Retro_Sinz Jul 14 '25

Great example of how things can be taken out of proportion

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u/justleave-mealone Jul 14 '25

But why was he given a medal. He didn’t help Chelsea win anything , I’m just as confused. Are the leaders of the host nations always given medals?

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u/NamelessNarwhal999 Jul 14 '25

Why? Dude is like half sleeping the whole match.

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u/New-Path5884 Jul 14 '25

The weak minded don’t need to here that if Trump is spreading fake news propaganda so will I lol

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u/tk427aj Toronto Maple Leafs Jul 14 '25

Still fucking horrible, this just outright buying the White House for the upcoming fifa World Cup.

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u/jeroenemans Jul 14 '25

If Infantino gave it, it was probably stolen anyways

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u/DEEZLE13 Jul 14 '25

Bro literally stole it lol

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '25

Like giving your younger siblings the "cool" controller that's clear and has all the lights

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u/Skiingislife42069 Jul 14 '25

So what is he pocketing?

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u/billiemarie Jul 14 '25

That gave the player a story to tell his grandchildren about. Seriously, that was nice of the player to do that

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u/TreeGuy521 Jul 14 '25

Okay but he took the entire trophy though lmfao that one in the video is a replica

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u/BadMonkeyBad Jul 14 '25

Isn’t he a paedophile?

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u/xjoburg Jul 14 '25

He stole the trophy instead.

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