Washington:
It is unlikely he knows his Maradonas from his Mar-a-Lagos but Donald Trump set his stall out Thursday as a soccer professional, tearing into the “leftist maniacs” of the national women’s group for missing out on Olympic gold due to the fact they are also “woke.”
The former president, who encouraged his supporters at a rally ahead of the Tokyo Games to boo the side, recommended falsely in a statement that the females had refused to stand for the national anthem in the course of the tournament.
“If our soccer team, headed by a radical group of Leftist Maniacs, wasn’t woke, they would have won the Gold Medal instead of the Bronze. Woke means you lose, everything that is woke goes bad, and our soccer team certainly has,” the 75-year-old mentioned.
The world champions had just beaten Australia 4-3 to safe third location, propelled to victory by talisman double goalsccorer Megan Rapinoe — a touchstone for LGBT activism identified for her brightly-dyed, choppy hairstyle.
But Trump was in no mood to congratulate Rapinoe, one of many gay players in the group, for a really hard-fought medal in what could properly be her swansong tournament prior to retirement.
“They should replace the wokesters with Patriots and start winning again,” Trump fumed.
“The woman with the purple hair played terribly and spends too much time thinking about Radical Left politics and not doing her job!”
The spat is nothing at all new. Rapinoe, who starred in the United States’ 2019 World Cup triumph, has extended been an outspoken Trump critic, referring to him in an interview with Vice Television last year as a “white nationalist.”
And in June 2019 Trump lambasted the star for saying she would not pay a visit to the White House as extended as he was the occupant.
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