Trump blames wokeness for US women’s soccer team loss, trolls Megan Rapinoe

Donald Trump directed an unhinged tirade on the US Ladies’s Nationwide Soccer Crew, blaming its unexpected early exit from the World Cup on a tradition of wokeness below “Crooked Joe Biden” — whereas savagely trolling Megan Rapinoe over the loss.

The US fell out of the Ladies’s World Cup Sunday after shedding to Sweden 5-4 in a penalty shootout throughout a pivotal Spherical 16 match — the staff’s earliest-ever exit from the event.

“The ‘surprising and completely sudden’ loss by the U.S. Ladies’s Soccer Crew to Sweden is absolutely emblematic of what’s occurring to our as soon as nice Nation below Crooked Joe Biden,” Trump, 77, gleefully wrote on Fact Social.

“A lot of our gamers had been overtly hostile to America – No different nation behaved in such a way, and even shut,” he continued. “WOKE EQUALS FAILURE.”

The forty fifth president concluded his gloating screed by blasting his long-time critic Rapinoe, writing: “Good shot Megan, the USA goes to Hell!!!! MAGA.”

The 38-year-old striker missed a vital fourth penalty kick, which may have despatched USWNT to the quarterfinals had it made it in.

As an alternative, Rapinoe, who is about to retire after this season, ended her celebrated profession on a bitter be aware, later likening her lacking a penalty to a “sick joke” in an interview with Fox Sports.

Rapinoe has not publicly responded to Trump’s taunts.

In contrast, President Biden praised the US Ladies’s Nationwide Soccer Crew, tweeting: “you’ve made your nation proud. Congratulations on an unimaginable run. This staff is one thing particular and I’m wanting ahead to seeing the way you proceed to encourage Individuals together with your grit and willpower – on and off the sector.”

Trump has lengthy been sharply important of Rapinoe, who is thought off the pitch for her advocacy for LGBTQ+ rights, equal pay for ladies in sports activities and racial justice.

In 2019, Rapinoe enraged the then-president by declaring that if her staff received the World Cup that yr, she would skip the customary go to to the White Home.

“Thanks, however no thanks. I’m not going to the f—ing White Home,” she informed soccer journal Eight by Eight that June. “No. I’m not going to the White Home, I don’t suppose we’ll be invited, I doubt it.”

The USWNT did win the title that yr — and didn’t go to the White Home.

Trump on the time lashed out on the outspoken striker, fuming: “Megan ought to by no means disrespect our Nation, the White Home, or our Flag, particularly since a lot has been carried out for her & the staff.”

In August 2021, after the US received a bronze medal on the Tokyo Olympics, Trump claimed that Rapinoe — whom he dismissively described because the “girl with the purple hair” performed “terribly,” and blamed the third-place end on “Leftist Maniacs” on the staff.

“If our soccer staff, headed by a radical group of Leftist Maniacs, wasn’t woke, they might have received the Gold Medal as an alternative of the Bronze,” he fumed. “Woke means you lose, all the things that’s woke goes unhealthy, and our soccer staff actually has.”

Rapinoe is ending her soccer profession with two World Cup titles in 2015 and 2019, the Golden Ball and Golden Boot award in 2019, and an Olympic gold medal in 2012.