The FIFA World Cup draw in Washington was the rather bizarre occasion for the presentation of the brand-new FIFA Peace Prize.
The what, you say? FIFA is in the business of awarding prizes for world peace? I thought they were all about football? Good questions all.
It turns out that Gianni Infantino, the Swiss-Italian current boss of FIFA, is best buddies with Donald Trump, although nobody really knows why. From Trump's inauguration to the Club World Cup final to the signing of the supposed "peace deal" between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Infantino keeps popping up, Waldo-like, in Trump's environs in the most unlikely circumstances.
Given that it is very unlikely that Trump will ever earn the Nobel Prize, given his predilection for war, Infantino presumably felt sorry for him and thought he should have his very own peace prize. It was neverthless a very strange moment when Infantino hijacked the lottery draw event, full of soccer personalities, to present Trump with this cheap imitation peace prize à propos of nothing at all. No-one else on the 37-member FIFA Council seemed to know anything about it.
Trumo's favoutite entertainers, The Village People and Andrea Bocelli, were there too, as were a bunch of other actors, models and other hangers-on. There was some mutual back-slapping and some embarrassing one-sided abasement. Infantino even promised Trump "the support of the entire football community", which seemed a bit rich.
The President, though, was clearly deeply touched by this nonsense, and Infantino firmly positioned himself as Trump's bestie. It is hard to make this stuff up, isn't it?
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