Jen Psaki ridicules Trump’s ‘bizarre’ FIFA Peace Prize and American football rebrand idea
WASHINGTON, DC: Opening ‘The Briefing’, MS NOW host Jen Psaki devoted her monologue to what she called Donald Trump’s latest “completely bizarre” performance, prompting her to revisit what she called an evergreen question- What if a Democratic president had done this?
“Sometimes Donald Trump does something so eye-popping, so outside the role of an American president,” Psaki said, asking once again how the country would react if Barack Obama or Joe Biden made the same spectacle.
Trump suggests renaming American football
Psaki then played a clip of Trump proposing that American football surrender its name to accommodate the global popularity of soccer.
“We have to come up with another name for that stuff… This is football,” Trump said on stage.
Psaki marveled at the moment, noting that the leader of a party once obsessed with renaming French fries to “freedom fries” was now suggesting a rebrand of America’s most beloved sport “to appease a European-based soccer league.”
Jen Psaki ridicules Trump’s 'made-up' FIFA Peace Prize
The reason Trump was onstage at all, Psaki argued, was even stranger. He was accepting a newly invented “FIFA Peace Prize” from what she described as “the notoriously corrupt soccer organization.”
“Actually, I take that back, because FIFA actually gave the president two made-up awards today,” Psaki said, pointing to a trophy and a gold coin-like medallion.
She emphasized that the “peace prize” had never existed before this year and “was clearly just invented to make Trump feel good about himself.”
Psaki underscored FIFA’s alleged long history of scandals, bribery, corruption, and abuses tied to World Cup construction and said the irony “doesn’t even begin to tell the story.”
Jen Psaki claims Trump treats the presidency as an ego trip
Psaki cast the episode as part of a broader pattern of Trump treating the presidency as an ego-feeding exercise.
She cited the president "Slapping his name on the US Institute of Peace ... changing the architect for his new White House ballroom ... attending what is essentially a private concert by the Village People and doing that kind of weird little dance he does," as proof of that.
She also added, “dozing off in the middle of cabinet meetings.” “All of that,” Psaki stressed, “was just within the past week.”
Jen Psaki frames the week as a snapshot of Trump’s presidency
Psaki closed by suggesting that the spectacle encapsulated Trump’s governing style, a fixation on pageantry, personal praise, and symbolic battles often overshadowing actual policy or presidential duties.
It is, she said, another reminder of why she keeps returning to her signature question: What if any other president had done this?
