Gavin Newsom mocked the “peace prize” that FIFA gave President Donald Trump on Friday, saying it’s more like a participation trophy that means little.
Trump, while attending the group draw ceremony for next year’s World Cup at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., was awarded a golden medal, which he put on himself, as well as a trophy and certificate by FIFA President Gianni Infantino. Infantino, as he has in the past, showered Trump with praise.
Trump, 79, was declared deserving of the hastily-created inaugural prize for “his exceptional and extraordinary actions to promote peace and unity around the world,” claimed Infantino, 55, who encouraged the president to wear the medal “everywhere you want to go.”
Newsom’s press team, however, soon offered a reimagining of the medallion.
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