VIDEO SHOWS: U.S. PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP, AT THE OFFICIAL DRAW FOR THE 2026 WORLD CUP, BEING GIVEN THE 'FIFA PEACE PRIZE' BY FIFA PRESIDENT, GIANNI INFANTINO EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: RESENDING SHOTLIST TO CORRECT DATE IN SHOTLIST HEADER TO DECEMBER 5, 2025 (WAS DECEMBER 5, 2024) RESENDING WITH COMPLETE SCRIPT SHOWS: WASHINGTON D.C., UNITED STATES (DECEMBER 5, 2025) (UNRESTRICTED POOL – Access all) 1. (SOUNDBITE) (English) FIFA PRESIDENT, GIANNI INFANTINO ON STAGE WITH THE ‘FIFA PEACE PRIZE’ AND INTRODUCING U.S. PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP [WHO WALKS ON STAGE] SAYING: INFANTINO: “Thank you very much. And please welcome the very first winner of the FIFA Peace Prize, the 45th and 47th President of the United States of America, Mr. Donald J. Trump. Please.” [TRUMP AND INFANTINO SHAKE HANDS] Mr. President, this is your prize, this is your peace prize. There is also a beautiful medal for you that you can wear wherever you want to go.” TRUMP: “I’ll wear it right now.” INFANTINO: “Let me hold. Fantastic.” 2. WHITE FLASH 3. (SOUNDBITE) (English) FIFA PRESIDENT, GIANNI INFANTINO ON STAGE WITH U.S. PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP, SAYING: “And therefore FIFA, the Federation Internationale de Football Association, awards the 2025 FIFA Peace Prize, Football Unites the World, to Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America, in recognition of his exceptional and extraordinary actions to promote peace and unity around the world. Friday, December 5th, 2025. This is the certificate. It's yours.” 4. WHITE FLASH 5. (SOUNDBITE) (English) FIFA PRESIDENT, GIANNI INFANTINO ON STAGE WITH U.S. PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP, WITH BOTH MEN SPEAKING: INFANTINO: “And you definitely deserve the first FIFA Peace Prize for your action, for what you have obtained in your way, but you obtained it 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.” TRUMP: “Well, thank you very much. This is truly one of the great honors of my life. And beyond awards, Gianni and I were discussing this, we saved millions and millions of lives. The Congo is an example, over ten million people killed, and it was heading for another ten million very quickly. And it just you know the fact that we could do that. India, Pakistan, so many different wars that we were able to end in some cases a little bit before they started, just right before they started. It was going to be late, but we got them done. And it's such an honor to be with Gianni. I've known Gianni for so long. He's done such an incredible job, and I have to tell you you've set new records on ticket sales, and not to bring that up, because we don't want to bring a thing like that up right now, but it's an awfully nice tribute to you and to the game of football or as we call it soccer. But football, and that is an amazing thing. The numbers are beyond any numbers that anybody even beyond what Gianni thought was possible. I want to thank, my family, my great first lady, Melania, you're right here and thank you very much. And I think you're going to have an event the likes of which maybe the world has never seen, based on the enthusiasm that I've seen. I have never seen anything like it. We've had a tremendous relationship, working relationship with Canada. We have our Prime Minister of Canada there and we have our President of Mexico. And we've worked closely with those two countries and the coordination and friendship and relationship has been outstanding and I want to thank you both very much and your countries very much. But most importantly I just want to thank everybody. The world is a safer place now. The United States one year ago was not doing too well, and now I have to say we're the hottest country anywhere in the world that we're going to keep it that way. Thank you all. Thank you. Have a great time and Gianni, a tremendous honor. Thank you.” / TRUMP AND INFANTINO WALK OFFSTAGE STORY: As the 2026 World Cup Draw got underway at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC on Friday (December 5), FIFA chief Gianni Infantino presented a new peace prize to U.S. President Donald Trump in the name of the sport's world governing body. Trump, who has openly campaigned for the Nobel Peace Prize, citing his involvement in ending multiple conflicts abroad, was given the newly created prize as well as a medal and certificate. The award, not voted on by FIFA's Council and chosen by Infantino from a shortlist of one, was presented on stage at Washington's Kennedy Center. "This is truly one of the great honors of my life," Trump said. "We saved millions of lives." (Production: Ashraf Fahim) (The article has been published through a syndicated feed. Except for the headline, the content has been published verbatim. Liability lies with original publisher.)
