The View hosts mocked President Donald Trump’s recent Fifa Peace Prize by handing out their own fake medals.
During Monday’s episode of the ABC talk show, Ana Navarro addressed the global football association honoring Trump with its newly created Peace Prize at the 2026 World Cup draw.
“I think Gianni Infantino, the head of Fifa, has figured out what practically every world leader, every other corporate leader has figured out,” she said. “If you show up with a tchotchke, preferably covered in gold, and give it to the three-year-old in the Oval Office, he will be entertained and he will be happy.
“All I’m gonna say is... not to be outdone,” she joked, before surprising each co-star with a gold medal on a chain.
“You get a medal, and you get a medal,” Navarro announced, invoking Oprah Winfrey’s iconic “you get a car” phrase.
“I do love a made-up award because it’s probably the only kind I’ll ever get,” Alyssa Farah Griffin quipped, going on to comment further on the controversy.
“Listen, President Trump right now is focused heavily on his legacy,” she suggested. “He wants to make sure that the history books can’t dismiss him as a fluke. Like, ‘Oh that was a weird thing that happened,’ and we’ve moved on.
“So that’s why you hear him talking a lot about the Nobel Peace Prize,” Griffin noted, adding that Trump is “putting his name on different things throughout the Capitol.”
“But what I keep hearing from his voters, people who count themselves as ‘American first voters,’ is it seems like he’s more distracted by what’s happening around the world and not delivering back home,” Trump’s former aide continued. “And that is what will mark his legacy.”
When approached for comment by The Independent, White House spokesperson Davis Ingle said: “President Trump’s Peace through Strength foreign policy is a tried-and-true approach that keeps America safe and deters global threats that has already ended eight wars in less than a year. There is no one else in the world more deserving of Fifa’s first ever Peace Prize than President Trump. Anyone who thinks otherwise clearly suffers from a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.”
On Friday, Trump was presented with Fifa’s inaugural Peace Prize at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.
According to the football association, the new peace prize is meant to “reward individuals who have taken exceptional and extraordinary actions for peace and by doing so have united people across the world.” Trump has also “championed the unifying power of football on the world stage,” according to Fifa.
“You can always count, Mr. President, on my support and the entire football community,” Infantino said at the ceremony, “to help you make peace ... all over the world.”
Infantino told Trump that the award was being presented on behalf of more than five billion soccer fans around the world, and to honor “a dynamic leader who has engaged in diplomatic efforts that created opportunities for dialogue de-escalation and stability.”
Trump has previously, and modestly, declared himself a “president of peace,” having claimed to have ended eight wars. The president spent months campaigning for the Nobel Peace Prize and recently renamed the Institute of Peace to the Donald J. Trump United States Institute of Peace. The coveted award, however, was given in October to Venezuelan political activist Maria Corina Machado.
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