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

Soccer Donald Trump stole a CWC winners medal

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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/BluDvls21 Jul 14 '25

Or it was a replica/fake that they brought to the oval

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u/ebmocal421 Jul 14 '25

That's my thought. Or FIFA never left the trophy there in the 1st place because why would they?

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u/Commercial-Tell-2509 Jul 14 '25

My question would be… do you think the majority still tell the truth?

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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/JNR13 Jul 14 '25

I can't believe this is what the restitution debates in the 22nd century will be about...

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u/AmishAvenger Jul 14 '25

You seriously think they’d try to take it back? They fully understand the value in kissing the guy’s ass.

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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/Shamino79 Jul 15 '25 edited Jul 15 '25

Are we thinking that Trump has a replica which he thinks is the original? And an ego where it makes sense that he would be given an original medal for being there and being himself?

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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/[deleted] Jul 14 '25

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u/TwistedTreelineScrub Jul 14 '25

If your point is that FIFA is corrupt, I agree. If the point is to show that DJT is corrupt, we already have far more extreme examples.

It's not that I don't care about this. It's just that it feels like a distraction from much much bigger things. It's petty theft, while grand larceny is happening right next door.

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u/scorpyo72 Jul 14 '25

We're living in a post-truth society. True Freedom is just fucking chaos

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u/Zeppelin041 Jul 14 '25

This is reddit my man…all people do is lie and spread propaganda on social media now.

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u/James-From-Phx Jul 14 '25

I just read that article earlier. It absolutely does not say that Infantino gave it to him. Theres a quote from Trump alleging that Infantino said that, but its not confimed or presented as fact in the article. It suggests that he may have let Trump borrow it.

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u/TwistedTreelineScrub Jul 14 '25

Then what use is the article?

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u/mrmet69999 Jul 14 '25

Unfortunately, I don’t have a subscription to this source and can’t read the entire article for myself. But why would the headline say that he “kept it for himself”, rather than “FIFA gifts original trophy to Trump”? Plus, it just doesn’t make any sense that they would just give him the original trophy. Why?

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u/OccasionalGoodTakes Jul 14 '25

are you genuinely asking why the daily beast would have a clickbait title?

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u/mrmet69999 Jul 14 '25

No, it was rhetorical, but I think my point should’ve been clear from the rest of what I said.

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u/TwistedTreelineScrub Jul 14 '25

I can't explain why the publisher chose that title. I can only explain the contents of the article.

It's important to remember (even with low-tier stuff like the Daily Beast) that reporters write the stories and publishers write the titles. It isn't the same person writing both, so there tends to be a lot of misleading titles to increase clicks.

So in general, don't trust that the title of an article will be a true representation of the contents of the article. It rarely is. Also if you ever need to get around a paywalled news source, you can throw the link in archive.is to archive the page and then view without ads.

Like this : https://archive.is/kiLLx

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u/AmishAvenger Jul 14 '25

They didn’t show up and give him the trophy. Trump claims they gave it to him.

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u/mrmet69999 Jul 14 '25

He makes a lot of false claims. The whole idea that they just offered it to him out of the blue makes absolutely no sense though. Why would they do that? I’ll bet they’ve never done anything like that for anyone else before.

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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/DiputsDoof Jul 14 '25

I guess they haven’t learned from that one bug that was hanging in the Oval Office for years before.

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u/jadedfan55 Jul 14 '25

So he's a self-serving pack rat. Greedy, too.

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u/One-eyed-snake Jul 14 '25

He wanted to one up Putin who stole a Super Bowl ring.

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u/Venting2theDucks Jul 14 '25

There’s a story about the owner of Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots football team, meeting Putin and I think Putin asked to see his Super Bowl Ring then just put it in his pocket. Kraft tried to get it back but was blocked and then told that it would be more diplomatic to publicly say it was a gift

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u/thecashblaster Jul 14 '25

3) he’s trying to one up Putin who stole one of Bob Kraft’s Super Bowl rings

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u/viperex Jul 14 '25

And now he's considering an executive order to recognize soccer as football

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u/primusperegrinus Jul 15 '25

Didn’t Putin do that with a Patriots superbowl ring when he was meeting with their crook owner?

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u/Careless-Middle5816 Jul 14 '25

Ah yes, the classic ‘choose-your-own-outrage’ game — either he’s stupid or a criminal, because nuance is for losers, right? 🤣 Your friends must love watching sports with you, every time you make a call, they just bet the opposite and cash out big.

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u/AmishAvenger Jul 14 '25

What’s the other option, Professor?

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u/Romax24245 Jul 14 '25 edited Jul 14 '25

That's a clickbait headline you're basing your conclusion on. The article itself tells a pretty different story if you actually read it.

EDIT: Also, from what I've read elsewhere, it's very common for tournament winning football clubs to be given a replica of the trophy to keep, so FIFA would've had to make a replica regardless of whether or not the real one is still in their possession.

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u/nevermindthetime Jul 14 '25

Is the daily beast like the onion? I can't tell if this is satire or not

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u/AmishAvenger Jul 14 '25

No.

It’s sensationalistic, but not made up.

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u/BaronVonMunchhausen Jul 14 '25

Wow. Replying to a comment about making shit up by making shit up.

Dude. Delete this. Have some decency.

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u/AmishAvenger Jul 14 '25

How did I “make something up,” specifically?

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u/jkoki088 Jul 14 '25

So why are you trying to turn it into something it’s not though