Claim:
In early December 2025, U.S President Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social: “STOP SAYING MY FIFA PEACE PRIZE AWARD IS A PARTICIPATION TROPHY!! I earned it by working 26 hours a day, 8 days a week, to bring peace to the warring people on the isle of Fifa! They told me ‘Sir, no other President in history has ever done what I have fo the Fifanian people!'”
Rating:
In December 2025, shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump was awarded FIFA’s new “FIFA Peace Prize – Football Unites the World,” a screenshot began circulating that appeared to show him defending the award on Truth Social, his social media platform. Trump received the prize from FIFA President Gianni Infantino during the 2026 World Cup draw at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
One widely shared Facebook post (archived), for example, was captioned: “Trumps defends his ‘FIFA Peace Prize’ and denounces those mocking him for it,” alongside what looked like a Truth Social post from Trump’s @realDonaldTrump account.
The supposed post, dated Dec. 6, 2025, 11:47 a.m., with “1.85k ReTruths” and “7.22k Likes,” claimed that critics should stop calling Trump’s FIFA Peace Prize “a participation trophy,” claimed that he worked “26 hours a day, 8 days a week” and said he had brought peace to “the warring people on the isle of Fifa” and the “Fifanian people:”
STOP SAYING MY FIFA PEACE PRIZE AWARD IS A PARTICIPATION TROPHY!! I earned it by working 26 hours a day, 8 days a week, to bring peace to the warring people on the isle of Fifa! They told me “Sir, no other President in history has ever done what I have fo the Fifanian people!”
The same supposed screenshot spread across Facebook groups, Instagram, Reddit, Threads and X, where some users debated whether it was real. It caused a stir online since FIFA is the global governing body for association football (soccer), headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland, and not a territory with “warring people” to whom a president could bring peace. Readers also contacted Snopes, asking whether Trump had really written those words.
As of this writing, it was unclear which social media account first shared the image, in part because many of the earliest versions appear in closed or private Facebook groups. What’s clear, however, was that there’s no evidence Trump ever posted the text. The alleged statement does not appear anywhere in independent archives of his Truth Social activity, no credible outlet has linked to a live version of the post, and several accounts sharing it have explicitly described the image as satire. Given the “Isle of Fifa” message was a fabricated graphic falsely presented as a genuine Truth Social post, we have rated this claim as false.
Trump’s real posts about the FIFA Peace Prize
Trump’s actual Truth Social account had several posts about the FIFA Peace Prize, but none of them matched the viral screenshot. We found them via a public archive, Trump’s Truth, run by the group Defending Democracy Together, which collects and indexes all of Trump’s Truth Social posts, including deleted ones.
Searching that archive for “FIFA” turned up, among other things, a Dec. 5, 2025 post linking to a Newsmax story, titled, “Trump Honored With FIFA’s First Peace Prize.” A Dec. 6, 2025, 11:09 a.m. post, just before the time claimed in the fake screenshot, read, “Such a great honor. Thank you FIFA, and have a historic World Cup!” with a link back to the same Newsmax article.
(Truth Social account @realDonaldTrump)
Visually, the alleged screenshot also differed from authentic Truth Social posts, as can be seen in the image below. For instance, in the fake screenshot there was no black-white-green Truth+ subscription badge next to Trump’s name, and the font and spacing of the body text differed from real posts.
(Truth Social account @realDonaldTrump)
All in all, none of the archived posts from Dec. 5-7, or any other date, contained phrases such as “Isle of Fifa” or “Fifanian people.” A search for “Fifanian” on Truth Social only returned results for “Iranian.”
Independent coverage of Trump’s FIFA award from outlets such as The Guardian, Axios and Al Jazeera described the real ceremony and controversy but did not quote any Trump’s Truth Social post about an “Isle of Fifa.”
How to spot fake Truth Social posts
The “Isle of Fifa” meme followed the same pattern as many fake Trump posts. First of all, it circulated only as a screenshot, with no one providing a working link to an actual Truth Social page. When checking independent archives that log all of Trump’s posts, the supposed one about the “Isle of Fifa” and the “Fifanian people” simply didn’t appear, even though his genuine posts about the FIFA Peace Prize did. Another giveaway was the exaggerated language, mentioning “26 hours a day, 8 days a week” and the invented “Isle of Fifa.”
When a Trump post looks a little too perfectly outrageous, ask yourself: Is there a real Truth Social link, does it show up in reliable archives or was it originally marked as satire? If the answers are no, no and yes, it’s a good sign you shouldn’t share it as if it were real.
We’ve previously investigated several fabricated Truth Social posts attributed to Trump. In one December 2025 example, a widely shared image falsely claimed he wrote that the “Trans Siberian Orchestra has exactly 24 days to figure out if they are male or female Siberian orchestra.”
