"Oh my God, he won the prize specifically created to appease him! he joked. The Fifa appease prize! I don't know if you guys got a good look at the trophy, but come on, he laughed before a photo of the trophy, sculpted to appear as though several hands rising from below cupped the world. I think its design somewhat reflects, in all likelihood, how it was conceived."
"I take you to that meeting now ... Stewart continued, breaking into an impression of a Fifa employee: Why do we gotta invent some prize just to satisfy some fragile egomaniac? Trump is so needy. It's like the world always has to reach out and stroke his balls. The prize ceremony included not only the trophy but a medal, which Trump immediately put around his own neck. He's so thirsty he's not even going to bag it, Stewart laughed."
"The host played a series of clips from the Trump administration claiming they were ramping up the pressure on the Venezuelan president, Nicolas Maduro, or on the brink of war with Venezuela. 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, he mused. It's classic advice: shit where you eat. That's the new Trump doctrine."
Jon Stewart ridiculed Donald Trump's acceptance of an inaugural Fifa peace prize, lampooning the trophy's design and the prize's intent. Stewart imitated a Fifa employee and called the award a creation to appease a "fragile egomaniac," mocking Trump's neediness and the spectacle of him immediately wearing the medal. Stewart contrasted the celebratory ceremony with news clips showing the Trump administration increasing pressure on Venezuela. Stewart characterized America's approach as a new doctrine focused on spheres of influence rather than promotion of stable democracies, suggesting geopolitical carve-outs for Russia and China while the US targets South America.
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