Trump Kept Gold Club World Cup Trophy for Himself So FIFA Had to Give the Winners a Replica [View all]

Trump took every opportunity to make the new, expanded soccer tournament all about himself.

President Trump has revealed that the champions of the Club World Cup won’t be getting the original trophy, because he’s keeping it.

English club Chelsea easily dispatched France’s Paris Saint-Germain in the final of the tournament in New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium on Sunday, with Trump joining the players for the trophy lift—much to their confusion.

It has since been revealed that the gong hoisted aloft by the London club’s captain, Reece James, was a replica, because the president of football’s governing body, FIFA, has let Trump use the original as an ornament in the Oval Office.

“They [FIFA] said: ‘Could you hold this trophy for a little while?’ We put it in the Oval Office and then I said: ‘When are you going to pick up the trophy’, and [FIFA President Gianni Infantino] said: ‘We’re never going to pick it up, you can have it forever in the Oval Office,’” Trump explained in a mid-game chat with the broadcaster, DAZN.

He then revealed to reporter Emily Austin that the victor, Chelsea, actually received a replica of the original for winning the tournament.

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