Trump says Club World Cup trophy will remain in Oval Office after tournament’s end | Club World Cup 2025

US President Donald Trump said that the Club World Cup trophy, who appeared in the oval office, will remain there, and that FIFA made a copy of the trophy that was awarded to Chelsea after their victory in the tournament final on Sunday.

Trump attended the final with many members of his cabinet and the president of FIFA, Gianni Infantino. The pair of presidents presented the trophy jointly to the captain of Chelsea Reece James, Trump remaining in the foreground despite the apparent confusion of the Chelsea players and the advocacy of Infantino.

The incident is only the last in a long series of intersections between the American president and the FIFA world, which has seriously started this year shortly after Trump began his second term. Infantino has unveiled the Club World Cup trophy for the first time during an event at the Oval Office in March, and the trophy has remained there for all the subsequent events of the historic space since.

“I said, when are you going to take the trophy?” [They said] “We are never going to pick it up. You can always have it in the oval office. We make a new one, ” said Trump in an interview with the official Dazn World Cup broader on Sunday. “And they made a new one. It was quite exciting, but it was in the oval [Office] right away.”

The exact differences between the trophies are unknown, if there are any. FIFA has been approached for clarification.

At other times in the interview, Trump suggested that he could propose an executive decree that football is called football in the United States, and said that leaders of other countries have called the United States “the warmest country in the world”, in reference to economic activity and political positioning.

“This is unity,” said Trump about FIFA to bring the Club World Cup and the male World Cup to the United States. “They are everyone meets and a lot of love between countries. I suppose it is probably the most international sport, so it can really bring the world together. ”

The planning of the World Cup of next year has faced a few obstacles presented by the second Trump Administration, including travel prohibitions in countries that would have an impact on fans hoping to go to the United States to see the games (although there are exceptions for athletes and staff), threats of ice raids at the games and long waiting times for visas.