Donald Trump awarded inaugural FIFA peace prize at World Cup draw

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48 Hour Usage United States president Donald Trump was unsurprisingly given the first ever FIFA peace prize at Friday’s World Cup draw ceremony in Washington DC.Trump and FIFA president Gianni Infantino have formed a close bond and Trump has now been handed a new prize from football’s global governing body which recognises individuals who have made “exceptional contributions to peace and unity”.The award is a hugely controversial one, with human rights campaigners having urged FIFA earlier this week not to hand the prize to Trump.

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00:00Please.

00:15And you will receive also, of course...

00:18Thank you very much. This is truly one of the great honors of my life.

00:22And beyond awards, Johnny and I were discussing this.

00:25We saved millions and millions of lives.

00:28The Congo, as an example, over 10 million people killed,

00:31and it was heading for another 10 million very quickly.

00:34And it just, you know, the fact that we could do that,

00:37India, Pakistan, so many different wars that we're able to end,

00:42in some cases, a little bit before they started,

00:45just right before they started.

00:46It was going to be late, but we got them done.

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