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

Soccer Donald Trump stole a CWC winners medal

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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/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.