Dmonald Trump took centre stage on the green carpet ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup draw at Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center on Friday (December 5).

The U.S. president was all smiles as he made his way to the event where FIFA chief Gianni Infantino presented him a new peace prize in the name of the sport’s world governing body.

Proceedings got off to an inauspicious start as hundreds of journalists were left queuing in the snow for hours as security personnel with dogs conducted exhaustive searches and checks of bags and equipment.

The ceremony began at 1700GMT with a “pre-draw” show scheduled to last an hour, opened by Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli singing Nessun Dorma – the theme to the Italia ’90 World Cup.

The Village People are also due to perform, with the allocation of groups fo

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