Once again, Donald Trump has not done in the lace.
After the defeat of the American women's football team against Canada in the semifinals of the Olympic tournament (1-0), the former White House employee attacked the players without restraint, starting with Megan Rapinoe .
"If our football team, led by a radical group of left-wing madmen, were not + woke +, they would have won the gold medal instead of the bronze," he said in a statement released on Thursday.
“Woke” is a term for awareness of injustices, regularly used with disdain by some conservatives.
Headed home with a medal!
🙌🇺🇸🥉 Proud of our fight, proud of our response.
@TeamUSA |
# Tokyo2020 pic.twitter.com/SvbUx3VfT9
- US Soccer WNT (@USWNT) August 5, 2021
This remark is particularly aimed at Megan Rapinoe, the 36-year-old two-time world and Olympic football champion: “The woman with the purple hair played very badly and spends too much time thinking about radical left politics and not playing gig!
Trump adds.
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The football player, feminist activist, has been at the forefront of the fight for LGBT + rights since coming out in 2012 and is also very politically engaged.
During the last presidential campaign, she also clearly took a stand against Donald Trump.
What did not escape the latter.
In an interview, she called him a “white nationalist”.
During the World Cup in 2019, she warned that neither she nor her teammates went to the White House under Trump in case of coronation.
Thursday, the Americans won the bronze medal by beating Australia 4-3 thanks in particular to a double from Rapinoe.
