When the United States Women’s National Team was eliminated from the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, former United States President Donald Trump wasted no time in blasting the team and superstar Megan Rapinoe on social media, but now Rapinoe is clapping back.
Following the team’s loss in a penalty kick shootout to Sweden, Donald Trump took to Truth Social to mock the USWNT team for their loss with a bizarre post, saying “The shocking and totally unexpected loss by the US Women’s Soccer Team to Sweden is fully emblematic of what is happening to our once great nation under crooked Joe Biden.”
And Megan Rapinoe had a pretty clear response, claiming that his message was simply nonsense.
“What he’s saying is fake,” Rapinoe said. “It’s a compilation of hit words and hot-button words that don’t actually make any sort of sense or square with reality at all.”
And Rapinoe thinks Trump’s words were emblematic of all the conservative backlash against the team.
“I think, just in general, the way that our team was spoken about over the course of the tournament, it was fake. And it didn’t make sense to me: In 2019, we were ultra-confident, ultra-swaggy—and won everything. And even though we won, we did it in bad taste, according to our critics. This time, we weren’t confident enough, and we don’t have the right ‘mentality.’ And so we lost. It’s just so disingenuous. There’s no way for us to win, and there’s no way for us to lose,” Rapinoe said.
Disingenuous or not, it’s clear that Rapinoe wasn’t a fan of the way people were talking about the team.
