{"id":416256,"date":"2026-04-29T07:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T07:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/416256\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T07:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T07:37:15","slug":"none-more-deserving-of-fifa-peace-prize-than-trump-says-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/416256\/","title":{"rendered":"None more deserving of FIFA Peace Prize than Trump, says White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House has hit back at critics of Donald Trump being awarded the FIFA Peace Prize, saying there is none more deserving than the U.S. president.<\/p>\n<p>Global soccer governing body FIFA gave Trump the inaugural award at the World Cup draw in December for &#8220;promoting peace and unity around the world&#8221;, triggering condemnation from human rights groups and activists in the lead-up to the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Australian soccer player Jackson Irvine said this week that giving the award to Trump made a mockery of FIFA&#8217;s Human Rights Policy, while Norway&#8217;s soccer federation said FIFA should abolish the award.<\/p>\n<p>The White House responded by saying Trump&#8217;s &#8220;Peace through Strength foreign policy&#8221; had ended eight wars in less than a year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no one else in the world more deserving of FIFA&#8217;s first ever Peace Prize than President Trump. Anyone who thinks otherwise clearly suffers from a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome,&#8221; White House spokesman Davis Ingle said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S., which is co-hosting the World Cup with Canada and Mexico from June 11 to July 19, launched a military strike on Venezuela a month after the draw for the tournament was made and began joint airstrikes with Israel on Iran on February 28.<\/p>\n<p>Trump frequently invokes his success at resolving international conflicts and has said on numerous occasions that he should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Reuters<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\ud835\uddd7\ud835\uddfc\ud835\ude04\ud835\uddfb\ud835\uddf9\ud835\uddfc\ud835\uddee\ud835\uddf1 \ud835\udde7\ud835\uddf5\ud835\uddf2 \ud835\udde6\ud835\ude01\ud835\uddee\ud835\uddfb\ud835\uddf1\ud835\uddee\ud835\uddff\ud835\uddf1 \ud835\uddd4\ud835\uddfd\ud835\uddfd \u2193<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestandard.com.hk\/appdownload\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Article_Footer_1200x400px-100_0.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The White House has hit back at critics of Donald Trump being awarded the FIFA Peace Prize, saying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[220,1657,14617,268,40169,42,40171,40170,40172,85,46,630,40173,105,2865,40168,2711],"class_list":["post-416256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-breaking-news","tag-china","tag-english-daily","tag-finance","tag-free-newspaper","tag-headlines","tag-hong-kong-media","tag-hong-kong-news","tag-hong-kong-news-media","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-latest-news","tag-sing-tao","tag-sports","tag-standard","tag-the-standard","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}