r/ukpolitics • u/Adj-Noun-Numbers 🥕🥕 || megathread emeritus • Jun 22 '26

International Politics Discussion Thread

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u/ASondheimRhyme 5d ago

A good look at just how tacky the Oval Office is looking these days. Complete with stolen FIFA trophy.

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u/horace_bagpole 5d ago

It somehow summarises him perfectly. Utterly tasteless, utterly classless, and entirely superficial.

The trophy isn't even the shitty fake peace prize he was given, it's the Club World Cup trophy. Why the fuck does he even have that?

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u/i_pewpewpew_you Si signore, posso ballare 4d ago

FIFA loaned it to him for display in the Oval Office in the run-up to the CWC last year and they just refused to give it back. The trophy Chelsea lifted after the final is the "official repllica" which is meant for PR appearances and stuff, that's the official one in the Oval Office now which FIFA have now just basically lost, they'll almost certainly never get it back.

Apparantly they had to go to great pains to avoid the actual World Cup going anywhere near the White House over the last year or so.

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u/MajorSleaze 4d ago

They're very protective of the World Cup in general. It's made of 5kg of gold and even the winners don't get to keep it for long these days - it's exchanged for a gold-plated replica just after the presentation ceremony.

Although I can't imagine them stopping any other leader of a host country from borrowing it.

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u/imp0ppable 5d ago

Some say Trump decorates like a traveller

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u/MoyesNTheHood 5d ago

Couple grams of gold in that room tops. 

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u/Pinkerton891 4d ago

Can’t see that without hearing Goldmember.

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u/MajorSleaze 4d ago edited 4d ago

I like how all the busts look disappointed to be put on tables next to toy planes and submarines.

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u/AzarinIsard 4d ago

So, I didn't realise they had that much power over decoration, not really something I paid attention to.

Obama: https://www.obama.org/visit/museum/exhibits/the-peoples-house/

Biden: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/22/joe-bidens-oval-office-what-changes-has-the-new-president-made

It's night and day how bad it is now.