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Bulwark Takes

Should We Just Keep Trump Busy With Fake Prizes?

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

Society & Culture, News Commentary, News, Politics

4.71.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Ben Parker and Catherine Rampell give their take on the absurdity of Donald Trump receiving the first-ever FIFA Peace Prize, a prize that didn’t exist until it was suddenly handed to the most unlikely recipient imaginable. They walk through the surreal ceremony like the Village People performing, the corruption vibes radiating off every angle of the event, and why FIFA and Trump seem perfectly matched in their mutual need for flattery and image laundering.

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0:00.0

Hi, everybody. Ben Parker from the Bulwark here with Catherine Rampel because it finally happened.

0:06.0

The thing we've all been waiting for, Donald Trump received the Peace Prize from FIFA.

0:12.7

This was the stupidest thing I've seen in a long time.

0:17.8

Totally unexpected. From the moment that the FIFA president announced that there was a

0:23.5

peace prize coming, we were all waiting with bated breath to see who was going to get it.

0:29.1

Not relevant at all that the FIFA president had previously said that Donald Trump totally

0:36.2

deserves the Nobel Peace Prize.

0:38.9

And this is, of course, not a consolation prize in lieu of the Nobel Peace Prize, totally separate, very prestigious and completely unexpected, clearly.

0:48.4

Yeah. I mean, when you think of some of the previous winners of the FIFA Peace Prize, there are none.

0:57.5

Exactly. But it's the first annual.

1:05.9

It's the first annual. So there will be many more to come. All total surprises do. Let's, oh God, I can't wait for next year when he wins it again. The first back-to-back winner in its history,

1:10.0

if you can imagine. Okay, that's next year.

1:11.7

We'll do that video in a year from now.

1:13.2

Let's just watch some of this video.

1:15.5

So we can't accurately describe how stupid this is.

1:18.3

You have to see it for yourself.

1:19.5

Thank you.

1:21.0

Thank you, Mr. President.

1:23.2

Mr. President, this is your price.

1:27.2

This is your Peace Prize.

1:28.3

There is also a beautiful medal for you that you can wear everywhere you want to go.

1:36.3

I'm going to wear it right now.

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