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By Lara Williams
President Donald Trump finally received his sought-after peace prize on Friday. Except it wasn’t from the Nobel Foundation but from Fifa, an institution charged with overseeing penalty shootouts in soccer rather than geopolitics. I’m not much of a football fan — I prefer rugby — but how can this sycophancy to a world leader who’s pulled his nation out of the Paris Agreement and calls climate change a “con job” serve either athletes or soccer fans?
The award was handed out at a glitzy draw event for
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