That’s a ballsy idea!

President Donald Trump weighed in on the age-old debate about the proper name for soccer — insisting it should be called football in the United States.

Trump announced his controversial preference during the World Cup 2026 drawing at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC on Friday afternoon, where he was honored as the “very first winner” of the FIFA Peace Prize .

“When you look at what has happened to football in the United States, [or] ‘soccer’ in the United States, we seem to never call it that because we have a little bit of a conflict with another thing that’s called ‘football’,” Trump said during an on-stage Q&A before the drawing.

“But when you think about it, shouldn’t it really be called, I mean this is football, there’s no question about that. We have

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