@dangillmor USA Today was humorously derisive but not contemptuous. CNN focused on the fact that the prize is all about Infantino’s personal relationship. Only Fox covered the bizarre statement that the sitting US President suggested that America’s most popular team sport should be renamed because it confuses foreigners and their sport deserves the name more. Honestly, he said that, and Fox printed it https://www.foxnews.com/sports/trump-says-america-should-change-footballs-name-it-really-doesnt-make-sense
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@dangillmor not straight news but opinion, but well stated on CNN https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/06/politics/video/mockler-trumps-fifa-peace-prize-may-be-the-most-humiliating-for-the-us
LOL. Trump thinks the FIFA award is for real. How SAD.
Why does #Trump's #FIFA #Soccer #PeacePrize look like people playing #Basketball?
Wouldn't that (those?) be a hand-ball foul?
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I can't find it now, but I recall reading about Trump's ramblings on football vs soccer in The Guardian live coverage.
@Cdespinosa @dangillmor
If #convictedFelon #sexOffender #DonaldTrump said soccer deserves the name "football" in the USA, then that was the one and only time he was ever right.
@Cdespinosa @dangillmor why would he say that? Probably because the NFL wouldn’t let him own a NFL team.
@jimluther @dangillmor because it was a mutual suck-up grift fest. In his native state he’ll say anything to get dumb people to like him. Nowadays he is not in control of what he says, at all.
@Cdespinosa @dangillmor hand-egg has a certain ring to it
@jamez_2_point_0 @dangillmor the problem is you can’t call it the National Hand-Egg League because NHL is taken.
Fightball. What could be more American than Monday Night Fightball?