Megan Rapinoe tears up Trump’s ‘Sad Dig’ against medal-winning US women’s football team

Star forward Megan Rapinoe of the United States women’s football team hit back former President Donald Trump on Friday for his vicious attack on American athletes for being ‘woken up’ and winning a bronze medal at the Olympics instead of gold.

Rapinoe appeared more disappointed with Trump than angry with him.

“It’s a really sad dig in an old bag,” the athlete told Nexstar Media Wire reporter Jack Doles of the Trump attack on Thursday. “I’m just like, ‘Do you encourage people to do wrong? Ouch.

The “bad” comment was obviously a reference to Trump’s criticism that the women on the team are “awake” – politically enlightened – and therefore he expected, and apparently hoped, that they would get bad results. .

Trump called American players “awake” and “bad” and said they should be replaced by “patriots”.

“Awake means you lose, anything that is awake is wrong, and our football team certainly did,” Trump said in a statement released by paid assistant Liz Harrington on Twitter, who does not enforce her “ban” for life to the old. President.

“If our football team, led by a radical group of maniacal leftists, had not been awakened, they would have won the gold medal instead of the bronze,” he said.

Trump singled out Rapinoe, whom he called “the woman with purple hair” [who] has played terribly and spends too much time thinking about the politics of the radical left and not doing its job! “

Trump apparently has no idea how football is played. In Team USA’s face off with Australia on Thursday, Rapinoe scored a superb goal from an “Olimpico” corner kick deep into the net. The United States won the game 4-3, taking home a bronze medal in the process. Rapinoe has scored two of the team’s four goals.

An Olimpico goal is generally considered a unique achievement. But this was the second time Rapinoe has amazed fans with the stunner – and at the Olympics, no less. She scored the same spectacular corner kick in 2012 in London when the team won gold.

Even though the former American leader was not impressed (or was not informed enough to understand what had happened), Rapinoe and millions of fans were proud of the American team.

“We didn’t have the tournament we wanted,” Rapinoe admitted to Doles. But “the performance we had in the last game is what we want to be and that’s what we are,” she added in a neutral tone.

Relations between Trump and the team have long been strained, especially with regard to Rapinoe, who last year called Trump a “white nationalist.” Asked in 2019 whether the White House would invite the team for a visit, ahead of their FIFA Women’s World Cup victory that year, Rapinoe said, “I’m not going to the fucking White House. . “