On the latest episode of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart remarked on President Donald Trump receiving the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize on Friday, which took place amid his administration’s threats to take military action against Venezuela.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino — a vocal supporter of Trump’s campaign to win the Nobel Peace Prize, which was ultimately awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado — presented the accolade to Trump, praising him on Friday for his “exceptional and extraordinary actions to promote peace and unity around the world.”
“Oh, my God! He won the prize specifically created to appease him,” said Stewart during his monologue, feigning surprise before suggesting a new title for the honor: “The FIFA Appease Prize.”
The host then rolled footage of Trump receiving the award during the ceremony held at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, where Trump previously took over as the board chair. In the clip, Trump plucks the award’s accompanying medal from its box and places it over his head. “He’s so thirsty he’s not even gonna bag it,” commented Stewart. “He’s like, ‘No, I’ll just wear it out of the store. No worries.’”
Stewart continued, “The craziest part wasn’t necessarily Donald Trump being awarded an entirely fictitious golden butt plug. It was the cognitive dissonance of flipping over to the news channels, post-peace ceremony.” The host cut to news clips claiming that the Trump administration is “ramping up the pressure” on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and that the United States is “on the brink of war with Venezuela.”
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“The brink of war? President Trump, did this meaningless award mean nothing to you?” the host said. “By the way, if you think they’re not serious about Venezuela, they seem to be setting a pretty nice table.”
“America’s new foreign policy is basically this: Don’t kill people there [the Middle East]; kill them over here [South America], in your own time zone. It’s classic advice: Shit where you eat,” Stewart pressed. “That’s the new Trump doctrine. It’s not in any way about stable democracies. It’s about spheres of influence. Russia can have their sphere of influence, including Ukraine. China can have theirs, and probably Taiwan, and we get South America. America is no longer the shining city on the hill. It is merely just one of the five crime families, splitting up the territories.”
