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FIFA pays the president's family business for a mostly empty office

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Filed June 2025

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What happened

Since mid-2025, FIFA has leased a Trump Tower office that soccer officials say sits largely empty, paying rent to Donald Trump's family business while he is president. FIFA says the rent is market rate and the office would be used during the World Cup.

Who enabled it

FIFIFA

Who benefits

Donald TrumpTrump Organization

Deal or steal?

Leasing an office it barely uses routes rent to the sitting president's company while FIFA needs the administration's cooperation for the 2026 World Cup. In the same courtship, Infantino handed Trump a newly created FIFA peace prize and Trump's Justice Department dropped its decade-old FIFA bribery case.

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Since around mid-2025, FIFA has leased office space on the 17th floor of Trump Tower in New York, paying rent to President Donald Trump's family business while he is in office. Soccer officials described the office as sitting largely idle. A FIFA spokesman said the organization pays market rent and that the space would be used during the 2026 World Cup. The lease is part of what FIFA insiders describe as president Gianni Infantino's broader effort to cultivate Trump's favor ahead of the tournament, which the United States is co-hosting with Canada and Mexico.

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