Breaking News from Pod Save America - Trump Mingles Balls and Accepts Fake Award At World Cup Drawing

Episode Date: December 5, 2025

Trump was awarded a fake “Peace Prize” at the World Cup drawing, where he bizarrely “mingled balls” with other world leaders. Jon, Jon, and Tommy react. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Guys, today we finally find out if Donald Trump is. going to get that peace prize that he's been hungering for. Let's watch. You're expected to get the FIFA Peace Prize, Mr. President. What would you say to people who say that prize might conflict with your pledge to strike Venezuela? Well, I think the Peace Prize, I mean, I settled eight wars. I don't know that I'm getting it. I haven't been officially noticed.

I've been hearing about a peace prize, and I'm here to represent our country in a different sense. But I can tell you, I did settle eight wars, and we have a ninth coming, but at which nobody's ever done before but I want to really save lives I don't need prices I need to save lives and we're saving a lot of lives I've saved millions and millions of lives and that's really what I want to do and I also want to run a great country and the United States right now is the hottest country anywhere in the world and one year ago was dead we had a dead country and now we have the hottest country anywhere in the world so the people everyone knows that the the Nobel Peace Prize

is whatever bunch of bunch of fucking Norwegians Yeah. A bunch of reindeer eating fucking poaches up there. But the FIFA Peace Prize. Do you guys know when the FIFA Peace Prize was created? I was going to ask this question. It would have been 1876, right? 1,900. I, is it new?

One month ago today. There you go. There you go. You never know, right? You don't know. Obviously, the FIFA Peace Prize sounds stupid and made up. But you never know if it's not something they've been giving to fucking, you know, MBS got it last year, whoever, whatever corrupt autocrat paid them the most the previous year.

Nope, it was created right after Donald Trump didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize. The New York Times said the creation of the prize was so hastily arranged that it surprised several of the bodies. This is FIFA's most senior officials, including board members and vice presidents, according to four soccer executives, briefed on the event. Are they trying to be like the NIT of the Peace Prize? Yes, that's exactly great. So Johnny Infantino is the head of FIFA. FIFA is like famously corrupt organization. Have you guys ever heard of it?

It's a good podcast series on those. Yeah, we did a podcast. Yeah, we did a little series on that. In 2010, the next World Cup was awarded to Russia and then Qatar, which people kind of wondered about. They're so hot there. Yeah. And that decision culminated in a 2015 raid by Swiss police on a hotel in Zurich where they arrested dozens of top FIFA officials. They figured out there was $150 million in bribery and kickbacks.

It's like famously corrupt organization. Wow. But now they give out peace prizes. I mean, good for them. Shockingly, they're cuddling currying favor with Trump. And what is this? Should we talk about the event that this is happening? Donald Trump's at the Kennedy Center and they're doing the FIFA draw?

Yes. You guys know what's happening here? Absolutely not. Okay, so they're drawing, basically, they're drawing. We know which teams are going to play in the World Cup. There are brackets like A, B, C, D. They're like three or four teams in each. And so you're figuring out your draw, so who you play against in the opening round.

It's very important. And is this for the World Cup that will be? be in the U.S.? Yes, the U.S., Canada and Mexico. So they had Trump there, they had Claudio Shane Baum, the president of Mexico. Jewish. Right, Minister Mark Carney.

What? From Canada. Actually, all three of them were on stage at the same time. Let's watch a little bit from that event. So you have to basically mingle the balls a little bit. You can see, I show this for the public, you see. Don't forget. And take the right ball, please.

Here, Presidenta. Let's see. forget to mingle, to mix. I think I know what this is going to be now. Everything. Don't forget to mingle the balls. You got to mingle the balls. You got to take care of, I mean, don't ignore the balls. Listen, listen, you got to, it's a common mistake that people make when they're at the FIFA draw, which is they are, they just ignore the ball. And you just leave them sitting there. But actually, if you want to have a really good FIFA draw, yeah, you got to mingle those balls. You got to mingle the balls. His instructions to three heads of

state you know what good I'm glad I mean what an embarrassing what an embarrassing time you know what an embarrassing time like the the like Ionucci fucking Stalin moment that we're in where the president is getting a fake peace prize because he didn't get the real peace prize yeah his feelings were hurt and that people know this kind of shit works it works so so well after mingling the balls don't forget the mingle the balls the best there was it Trump, you know what, Trump was reluctant because he knew. He knew his bad footage for him.

They set it up as if it's going to be a real draw, and you're going to be surprised to learn, like, you pull out the little egg thing, the little ball, you unscrew it. Inside, there's a name of the country. And they set it up as if there was going to, we didn't know what was going to happen. But then Mark Carney pulled out Canada,

Shane Baum pulled out in Mexico. And Trump goes, I think I know what's going to happen. Eritrea? Wait a second. So this is a fake? What? So these are, all the balls had the same name in them? All the balls in front of them.

clearly like the ones in front of Trump just said United States the one in front of Carney said Canada it's so even the fucking FIFA bingo is fake well this part of the FIFA bingo is fake then that look it all could be rigged what do we know like Tom Brady and Shaq are pulling balls later on in this ceremony at the end they they drain the balls at the end yeah this event is probably watched by like billions of people by the way this is a huge deal all over yeah usually a lot you know this kind of thing usually be on pay-per-view but now it's you can just watch it's deep in this kind of content. Let's watch a little bit of Trump at the

Nobel. Sorry, the FIFA Peace Prize ceremony, the award. Let's see why you get confused. Mr. President, and you definitely deserve the first FIFA Peace Prize for your action, for what you have obtained in your way, but you obtained

in an incredible way, and you can always count, Mr. President, on my support, on the support of the entire football community or soccer community to help you make peace and make the world prosper. all over the world. Thank you very much, Mr. President. The floor is all yours. Thank you very much. This is truly one of the great honors of my life.

And beyond awards, Johnny and I were discussing this. We saved millions and millions of lives. The Congo, as an example, over 10 million people killed, and it was heading for another 10 million very quickly. And it just, you know, the fact that we could do that, India, Pakistan, so many different wars that were able to end. Tommy, you want to give us a fair check on, though? on the wars he ended wars very much still raging in the Congo like FIFA they played this um like propaganda video that just it was ever it's all of Trump's like eight claims for the wars he ended and it literally says uh at the end of it he and the Trump ensured that peace exists between

Israel and Hamas by brokering the Gaza peace plan and he is making a continued effort to bring a lasting peace to Russia and Ukraine I just like that they were like in in your own way like in his own Is that like murdering people on boats? Is that what they were referring to? What's his own way? We just didn't understand until Trump that there were all these people that were going to be willing to do this kind of thing. Like there's no like this is like, FIFA's kind of going out of their way. Oh yeah.

To be this subsequious. Like there's a version of this where they just do a normal thing to celebrate it being. It's going to be in the US. But man, these people have just the the part of themselves is just ready to do kind of Slavish A lavish devotion to Trump. Can I ask what? Like, what does FIFA need from Trump? I'm not totally sure why Gianni and Fentino is doing this.

Like, this is just a glaze for sake of glazing? I guess, like, the, FIFA was run like a mafia organization. It was just super corrupt. People were buying votes. They were rigging who would get to host these events. I mean, that's what led to this prosecution and like set bladder to the former president being pushed out. But Gianni Fentino's like really decided he's going all in on Trump. Like he went to the Charmel Sheikh peace ceremony where they did announce the Gaza ceasefire.

He was at this event in Malaysia where they talked about the Camponia Thailand ceasefire. It's like it's very weird. He's in the Oval Office every other day. So it's just like game recognized game. I used a lot of money. There's a lot of money going around this. There's a lot of ways people get paid. Yeah.

You have to just. Who knows? But I felt like this with the, the, that's, that billion dollars. scam or pardon last week and he does this stuff and then you have to wait the weeks and months to find out what actually happen. Like we have no idea what kind of investigations have been going on into FIFA's activity in the U.S. We have no idea what relationship this guy has with other Trump family members and other Trump

businesses, right? There's just, you're right, there's so much money sloshing around. And one way to make sure you get a taste, get your beak wet, is just saying as good graces. Yeah, it's also just good politics. Like that's why Carney's there. That's why Shanebom's there. Like being associated with the World Cup is awesome. Well, that's the normal politics part of it.

Yeah. Yeah. I think we have one more clip for you guys. Let's watch. When you look at what has happened to football in the United States, again, 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.

But when you think about it, shouldn't it really be called? I mean, this is football. There's no question about we have to come up with another name for that. No, sir. Fuck off. Fuck you. Football's ours.

Just veering into a little Seinfeld to her. territory there too. Like, what's the deal? And here in the United States, we got something else, we got a conflict, what should we do? There's a part of my brain that believes it's England's fault we call it soccer. Because it

had to do with association football. And it was like a association football in the UK became known as soccer. That's what's in my brain. And then we took the name and then they went to football. originated in England slang for association football colloquially turned into soccer look at you

come on come on classic jock over here that's right obviously I want to hear I want to hear Roger Goodell's response to that oh yeah they should just fight um obviously yeah it makes sense to call the sport where you use your feet to kick a ball football but this is America okay we don't use the metric system we don't do what you fucking tell us to do yeah fuck off anti-american bullshit over there from the president. Tiny cars, changing the name of football, public ownership of private companies.

Each shit is America. Me. All right? Yeah. Can I, there are two things. One, did you see Larry David have his pitch for changing football, which is he thinks it's stupid, that there's the kicker can decide games when

the rest of the team is doing everything the whole game and this kicker that doesn't do anything else comes out and just decides who wins the game. He thinks it makes no fucking sense. He's not wrong. There should be no field goals you just go for fourth down because that's how you show if you're a better team i fully support that trump is also weighing in on like weird rule things too like he's really mad about the new kickoff rule and he's not complaining about that all the time is super annoying what is the

new kickoff rule it's basically like the old kickoff rule was you've got some of the best athletes in the world some of the biggest strongest men running like nearly 80 yards and then just trying to kill the one person with the ball so they shrunk the distance they ran and they moved them forward to try to like limit the kind of catastrophic concussion leading impacts. What do you think about those soft helmets you can put over your helmet? Yeah, what are they called? Guardian caps? They look stupid, but I hope they help.

Yeah. A lot of people get stupid. It seems like people are choosing not to wear them because they do look stupid. They look very goofy. We want the brain injury. Yeah, you look like, uh, anyway. So Trump getting paid. I don't like it.

This is weird, weird event. Also, I think they took over the Kennedy Center for like three weeks and they got it for free, FIFA did. The Trump Kennedy Center? The Trump Kennedy Center. That's what he wants to? Rick Grinnell. It'll be. There's also the, you know, they renamed the Institute of Peace, the Trump Institute of Peace

of Peace. They did. It's been a big week for peace and extrajudicial killings. That's right. Peace and war crimes. They just put Trump's name on the building. They just add his name on top of the building. Just in a different font.

It's just above it. Yeah. And Rubio likes it. Weird because they doge the building like back in March. So I don't know if anyone still works there. It's an empty building with Trump's name on it, which is like most of his building. I tell you something that I'm afraid to put out into the world. which is Trump hasn't caught on to the fact that federal buildings are not height limited in D.C.

They kind of respect the D.C. rules about how tall buildings can be. But he could decide to build something much bigger if he wanted to. I thought that was like a regulation. It is. It's a law. It's a law, but it applies to D.C. permitting not to federal buildings. Oh, God, that ballrooms. He could if he wanted to. Adios. You knew they fired the architect.

Why? Do we know why? So they had some difference of opinion, but then also the architecture, the firm was too small, and they couldn't get it done on time, and Trump wants it done like as fast. Because Trump wants it done by 2029 when he leaves office, because they don't, and they don't think they can, the smaller firm did not think they could get it done by them. How long does it take to build a bar? Well, it's, you know, triple the size now, and it's like a new East Wing and the ballroom

and Melania's office and all that kind of shit. Look, the contractor tells you'll be in by May. You're not going to be in by May. That's what's happening here. It would be really funny if it just wasn't done. Anyway, well, that's it for FIFA. Thanks for watching this. Please subscribe to Pazave America here on YouTube because you want this kind of content.

And also, don't forget to mingle the balls. I couldn't remember the term mingle. Mingle, mingle those balls. Mingle the balls. Don't get a shot, did. I had made him. Yeah, it was good. Luigi.

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