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© 2019 AFPTrump tells U.S. women's soccer star Rapinoe not to 'disrespect' country
By FRANCK FIFE WASHINGTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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simon g
Trump reaps what he sows. BUT he better not get on the wrong side of US soccer mums, (might be too late).
Who wants to go and eat cold junk food with an obese coward?
The White House is a toxic place with Trump there and quite rightly LGBTQ and people of ethnic minorities show great courage in speaking truth to power. FT!
JJ Jetplane
Don’t disrespect the country?
I believe Trump has done a fine job of that already. Instead of bashing her, he should look at why so many sports franchise and players keep refusing to attend the annual White House meeting for champions.
ClippetyClop
She is doing neither. Her employer is the US Soccer Federation, not some fat infant in a posh house. Again Trump tries to associate disrespect for him for lack of love of the nation. My guess he'll be hugging flags again soon.
David Varnes
The only person in this story who's disrespecting the flag, the country, and the White House is Donald J. Trump. Megan Rapinoe is what a true American should be.
Alfie Noakes
L’etat c’est moi. Trump seems to have lost whatever was left of his mind.
cleo
The up side of that being that it was no great loss.
And Trump was so respectful he didn't even bother to check the lady's name before he started twittering about her.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/48775195
Trump initially tagged the wrong account - a Megan Rapino with only two followers - before deleting the thread and retagging the US star's actual account.
(The 'real' Megan Rapino backed the football player)
jcapan
It's an old fascist trick, accusing your political opponents of being less patriotic or, gasp, traitorous. There's a reason why he looks like Mussolini in that photo.
jcapan
Hear hear
Jimizo
Will he ask his supporters to check out a non-existent sex tape not featuring her if this argument escalates?
Don’t cross Trump. He tells it like it is when having Twitter catfights.
Sneezy
The White House isn't the country and it doesn't employ the US Women's Soccer team. But other than that your sentence is correct.
Aly Rustom
dissent is the greatest form of patriotism.
theFu
Public dissent is. That is how you know your democracy is strong. It can handle political conversations even when there are disagreements.
Hopefully, Megan Rapinoe only means that she won't visit the White House with the current President in office, though it would be a great chance for the entire team to make a pro-woman's political statement that the world would see and hear.
tooheysnew
These cocky yanks are talking like they’ve already won the World Cup - now that’s disrespectful
Jimizo
Not the first time he’s done this. He once sent a bitchy tweet to the wrong Theresa May after she rebuked him for retweeting videos from racists.
lostrune2
That video was shot way back on Jan 25th in Los Angeles, USA. It was a supplement to a magazine’s Women’s World Cup special issue that came out in May.
Sandy
This little disrespectful ungrateful soccer player should not be allowed on the team.
she does not honor the Country that she is representing, The United States of America
I think maybe Iran would be a better place for her
lostrune2
She honors the country by playing well and thus representing the country well to the world
But the Office of the President is different
Kim Ruoff Martin
She’s not disrespecting the country; she’s disrespecting YOU!
cla68
I believe President Trump just cursed the team but we’ll see. Rapinoe shouldn’t be showing such disrespect to her country and employer.