President Trump Calls Soccer The “Real Football” At 2026 World Cup Draw, Accepts Inaugural FIFA Peace Prize

President Trump was unsurprisingly on one today at the World Cup Draw 2026.

Don’t know what that is? That’s okay. I’ll give you the cliff notes version (are those even still a thing with AI?). Basically, today is the day that all 48 teams participating in the 2026 World Cup find out who they’ll be facing in the group stage of the competition. The World Cup starts next June and runs through July.

North America is the host of the tournament this year, with the United States, Canada and Mexico all set to host World Cup games. Many football stadiums across the country – like in Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia Seattle and the San Francisco Bay area – will be transformed into football stadiums for the competition.

That’s right… America is trading out football for football, if only for a month or so.

During the World Cup Draw today, President Donald Trump pointed out the somewhat confusing name of America’s favorite sport, and alluded to how many Americans refer to football as soccer. He kind of went off on a tangent about it, and his exclamation mark on those thoughts was implying that the NFL should rethink what they call their billion dollar sport:

“When you look at what has happened to football in the United States, again, ‘soccer’ in the United States. We seem to never call it that because we have a little bit of a conflict with another thing that’s called football. But when you think about it, it shouldn’t really be called football. This is football, there’s no question. We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff. It doesn’t make sense, when you think about it.”

The ultimate smooth talker, right? Speaking on the international stage where he obviously has garnered some mixed reviews over the years, and kicks it off by schmoozing the soccer crowd with a little with a “hey guys, this is the real football, eh?” A master at work:

Almost sounds like a Jerry Seinfeld observational comedy bit, does it not?

Aside from Trump doing his tight-five on soccer and football, the POTUS was also given the FIFA Peace Prize during the proceedings that took palce at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C.. FIFA President Gianni Infantino presented him with the award, which came with a medallion and a certificate.

It’s the first year that FIFA has awarded a “Peace Prize,” which had many on social media joking that the Federation Internationale de Football Association just created it to get in Trump’s good graces. I won’t comment on that, but I will point you towards what Infantino had to say when awarding trump with the FIFA Peace Prize:

“The FIFA Peace Prize is presented annually on behalf of the billions of football loving people from around the world to a distinguished individual who exemplifies an unwavering commitment to advancing peace and unity throughout the world through their notable leadership and action. Therefore, FIFA awards the 2025 FIFA Peace Prize 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.”

Considering Trump’s thoughts on the names of football , and his propensity to roll out executive orders (and him being awarded something from FIFA), we might all be tuning into Sunday Night Hand-And-Sometimes-Football this weekend.The post President Trump Calls Soccer The “Real Football” At 2026 World Cup Draw, Accepts Inaugural FIFA Peace Prize first appeared on Whiskey Riff.