Donald Trump eviscerates USWNT and reignites his feud with Megan Rapinoe after she missed a penalty that got them knocked out of the FIFA Women’s World Cup: ‘Nice shot Megan, the USA is going to Hell!!!’
- The U.S. women’s soccer team was knocked out of the World Cup on Sunday, losing 5-4 to Sweden on penalties, with the retiring Megan Rapinoe missing hers
- Donald Trump led conservative cheers at the team’s downfall, saying ‘the players were openly hostile to America’ and represent Joe Biden’s America
- The team refused the usual White House visit after winning the World Cup in 2019, and Rapinoe in particular has been strident in her criticism of Trump
Donald Trump led a chorus of conservative cheering on Sunday after the U.S. women’s soccer team got knocked out of the World Cup.
The team lost 5-4 to Sweden on penalties, crashing out in the second round – their earliest exit ever from a major tournament.
Trump’s long-time nemesis, Megan Rapinoe, missed a penalty, ending her last World Cup on a disappointing note.
Rapinoe, 38, will retire after the tournament, with two World Cup titles and an Olympic gold medal.
The outspoken Rapinoe is as well known for her activism and support of left-wing causes as she is for her sporting achievements, and Trump on Sunday singled her out, as usual, for particular opprobrium.
President Donald Trump shows off a World Cup football given to him by Russian President Vladimir Putin during a joint press conference after their summit on July 16, 2018 in Helsinki, Finland
A stunned Rapinoe is seen after the U.S. were knocked out of the tournament
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‘The ‘shocking and totally unexpected’ loss by the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team to Sweden is fully emblematic of what is happening to the our once great Nation under Crooked Joe Biden,’ wrote Trump on social media.
‘Many of our players were openly hostile to America – No other country behaved in such a manner, or even close.
‘WOKE EQUALS FAILURE.
‘Nice shot Megan, the USA is going to Hell!!! MAGA.’
Benny Johnson, chief creative officer at Turning Point USA, also mocked Rapinoe’s penalty miss.
‘Woke U.S. Women’s Soccer Humiliation,’ Johnson tweeted.
‘After winning back-to-back World Cups the heavily favored Team USA has been eliminated by Sweden in the [Round of 16].
‘Team USA’s downfall was delivered by anti-America, anti-woman activist Megan Rapinoe’s embarrassing free [penalty] kick here.’
Joey Mannarino, a conservative political strategist, said: ‘I root for America every single time they compete in sports, except for women’s soccer.
‘The game was lost because Megan Rapinoe, the woke piece of trash, missed a penalty kick.
‘So Megan now bears the responsibility for why the US lost.
‘I am so glad to see it.
‘Go woke, go broke!
‘Megan Rapinoe will now enter retirement with her head hung in shame.’
Trump, seen in South Carolina on Sunday, cheered Rapinoe’s disappointment
Rapinoe, well known for her outspoken political views and activism, was mocked by Donald Trump on Sunday
The team are seen on July 27 before their first round game in the World Cup
Rapinoe kneels during the National Anthem in September 2016, in support of Colin Kaepernick’s protest against police brutality. It marked the beginning of her feud with Trump
US women’s soccer star Megan Rapinoe (pictured) said her team would happily accept New York Senator Chuck Schumer’s invitation to the upper chamber after their World Cup win in 2019 – but not the White House
Rapinoe is seen talking to Barack Obama at the White House after winning the 2015 World Cup
Obama poses with the women’s team and their staff in 2015
Rapinoe attracted national attention when she knelt for the national anthem during a September 2016 international match – a move taken in support of NFL player Colin Kaepernick’s stand against police brutality and racial inequality in the United States.
Rapinoe also led demands for the women’s team to be paid as much as the men – a battle finally won in February 2022.
She has feuded for years with Trump, saying that she would not visit the White House, as is tradition, if they won the 2019 World Cup – which they did.
In response to her declaration that she was ‘not going to the f***ing White House’, Trump said: ‘Megan should never disrespect our Country, the White House, or our Flag, especially since so much has been done for her & the team.’
After her team’s win, she used an interview with Meet The Press in July 2019 to say she did not feel welcome in Trump’s America.
‘I think Trump’s message excludes people that look like me and are me, of course,’ Rapinoe said.
‘But it excludes a lot of people in his base, as well.
‘And I think that he is trying to divide so he can conquer, not unite so we can all conquer.’
When, later that month, Trump told lawmakers Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib to ‘go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came’, Rapinoe said it was ‘disgusting’.
She also described the Supreme Court overturning national abortion rights as intentionally ‘cruel.’
She later added: ‘You can understand from an individual perspective how difficult it is to live in a country where you have a constant, unrelenting, violent tide against you – an onslaught as a woman, and it would be a gay person, and as a nonbinary person, as a trans person.’
In August 2021, Trump criticized the ‘Leftist Maniacs’ in the U.S. women’s soccer team and said they would have won gold at the Tokyo Olympics if they weren’t so ‘woke’.
The former president also called Rapinoe the ‘woman with the purple hair’ and said she played ‘terribly’ after they finished with the bronze medal, following a victory over Australia.
‘If our soccer team, headed by a radical group of Leftist Maniacs, wasn’t woke, they would have won the Gold Medal instead of the Bronze,’ he said.
‘Woke means you lose, everything that is woke goes bad, and our soccer team certainly has.
‘There were, however, a few Patriots standing. Unfortunately, they need more than that respecting our Country and National Anthem. They should replace the wokesters with Patriots and start winning again.’
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