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Seth Meyers goes after Donald Trump for accepting a "faux" peace prize.
"Donald Trump acquired a faux peace prize from FIFA and stated we must always change the title of American soccer as a result of soccer is the true soccer — one thing that will have made Donald Trump livid if anybody moreover Donald Trump had stated it," he joked on the outset of Monday's new episode of Late Night time with Seth Meyers.
The SNL vet continued to tear the forty fifth and now forty seventh President, joking, "Donald Trump has been determined his total life for human connection — I'm simply kidding, for large outdated shiny awards."
Meyers rolled clips from a number of events over the course of Trump's lengthy tenure in public life wherein the previous host of actuality competitors sequence The Apprentice eitherbemoaned the truth that he hadn't gained an award he was within the working for or boasted about profitable an award of doubtful provenance.
"In his earlier life as a recreation present host, he was obsessive about the truth that he by no means gained an Emmy," Meyers famous, enjoying a section from season 14 of The Celeb Apprentice wherein Trump defined to contestants like Geraldo Rivera and Vivica A. Fox that he was so sure he would win an Emmy at one specific ceremony, he stood up and commenced strolling towards the stage earlier than the precise winner was even referred to as.
"If I stood up and began strolling for an Emmy I didn’t win, I’d not cease strolling till I had submerged myself within the Pacific Ocean," Meyers cracked.
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The Fédération Internationale des Associations de Soccer, also called the Worldwide Federation of Soccer Associations and easily known as FIFA, inaugurated the custom of awarding an annual "peace prize" this 12 months. President Gianni Infantino bestowed a gilded trophy and medal upon Trump final Friday on the Kennedy Heart in Washington, D.C. — an occasion watched by thousands and thousands of sports activities followers across the globe, as a result of it additionally noticed the official 2026 World Cup draw.
Through the ceremony, Trump remarked that soccer followers in the US "appeared to by no means name" the game by its internationally acknowledged title, soccer, "as a result of we had somewhat little bit of a battle with one other factor that's referred to as soccer. However when you consider it, shouldn't it actually be referred to as, I imply, that is soccer, there's no query about it, we gotta provide you with one other title for it."
Infantino cheered for Trump's suggestion, however Meyers referred to as it an indication that FIFA's "gambit labored precisely as deliberate," all as a result of "Trump was so simply swayed by the particular trophy."
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Meyers wasn't the one one who ripped Trump for his FIFA prize.
The women of The View tore Trump to items on Monday, with former federal prosecutor and authorized knowledgeable Sunny Hostin doubling Meyers' dubbing of the prize as a "faux award" for somebody nonetheless jealous that "President Obama acquired the Nobel Peace Prize," whereas Republican commentator Ana Navarro quippeda, "Should you present up with a tchotchke, ideally coated in gold, and provides that to the three-year-old within the Oval Workplace, he shall be entertained and he shall be joyful."
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