As the U.S. and Canada prepared for the 2026 soccer World Cup tournament, rumors abounded about the rapport between U.S. President Donald Trump and the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the international self-regulatory body for association soccer.
FIFA President Gianni Infantino has been criticized for violating ethics rules when he created a FIFA Peace Prize for Trump, including by former FIFA President Sepp Blatter. Infantino is no stranger to controversy, having been implicated in the Panama Papers scandal in 2016, targeted in a FIFA ethics committee investigation for alleged malpractice in 2017, and investigated for criminal conduct in Switzerland in 2020.
The recent relationship between Trump and FIFA under Infantino's leadership has raised many questions and fueled several rumors, true and false, eight of which Snopes investigated.
Here they are:
