Posted on 07/04/2019 12:14:29 PM PDT by L.A.Justice
USWNT defender Ali Krieger has said she would “absolutely not” go to the White House if invited and stood by her teammate Megan Rapinoe in her war of words with US President Donald Trump.
The 34-year-old — a veteran of three Women’s World Cups — believes it was important for her to publicly support Rapinoe, who has attracted as much media attention for her comments off the pitch as her exploits on it.
“I refuse to respect a man that warrants no respect,” Krieger told CNN New Day’s Alisyn Camerota of Trump. “I feel that staying silent at times can side with the oppressor and I didn’t want her to feel like she was having to process this all alone, because a lot of us do have those similar feelings.
“I wanted to make sure that as one of her close friends, she didn’t feel that and I feel like we’re able to focus — as women it’s funny, imagine that, we can multitask — on two things at once.
“I refuse to just sit back and watch an abuser, a bully talk like that to my friend and I support her as a friend and I wanted to make sure that I said something that meant something to me and was important to me and that’s why I did what I did.”
Krieger — a Women’s World Cup winner with the USWNT in 2015 — last week responded to Trump’s string of tweets about Rapinoe, writing: “I know women who you cannot control or grope anger you, but I stand by Rapinoe and will sit this one out as well.”
The US defeated England 2-1 Tuesday to set up a clash with the Netherlands in Sunday’s showpiece final and Krieger insists that the players’ off-field battles have no impact on how they perform on the pitch.
“Honestly, after I tweeted about that incident I haven’t really been on Twitter and focused on him (Trump) at all,” she said. “More importantly, Barack Obama tweeted at us which I definitely liked so I saw that one and I was really excited about that,” she says, grinning from ear to ear. “And we all were as well.
“I don’t think it takes a lot of mind space to go ahead and tweet something out that’s very important and then refocus — turn it off and then refocus on the job. What we’re doing here is to win.”
The USWNT squad may yet get the chance to visit Washington D.C.
Last week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez invited them to the House of Representatives and Krieger said she would “absolutely” take her up on the offer.
“I could say that after this game, we could pack our bags and be on our way, but that’s obviously not my choice,” she said. “So we’ll have to regroup and see what happens but most importantly we have this game on Sunday, we have to perform.
“We have to win and then everything else will come after that — so one day at a time. Most importantly we need to focus on this then and then things will come into play after that.”
I don’t give a rat’s patootie for or about soccer, but I’m rooting for England.
GO ENGLAND!!!
They dont deserve to go to the white house.
Their very best team can be beaten by high school boys soccer teams.
Oh, bless her little heart.
It’s ok. She’s gonna be replaced by a tranny soon enough.
Euro-weeinie and Turd world sport, who cares?
Plus its stupid to assume the president has time for this for ANY sports team.
I’d rather he not meet with ANY sports teams at all and get tge godam wall built and deport the millions of illegals that gave breached our border, and also start denying citizenship under the false concept of anchor babies.
No other country gives citizenship to babies birthed in them by foreign parents. No other country is stupid enough to let socialists get away with this travesty.
Her foul mouth, in past years, would have gotten her kicked off the us team.
So would being a carpet muncher, for the others.
I don’t follow this sport and haven’t heard of any of these people before the last few weeks. Life is too short to give a damn about nonsense.
What was the abhorrent behavior?
News flash, girls. Nobody cares.
Trump wasn’t offensive at all. He just said Megan should win first before she talks. They probably will win anyway but that kind of attitude can make you lose.
Their fight against the oppressor will bear fruit. Soon, they will have to compete with biologically male XY trans-women for their spot on the team.
And, the US will be laughed at for fielding a team of perverts for international women's competition.
But, "we" will emerge victorious! /S
“as women it’s funny, imagine that, we can multitask — on two things at once”
Yeah, because men are so inferior to women!
It is the Social Justice Warrior Team. I’ll smile a little if they lose. If they win, oh well - it is ONLY women’s soccer. Maybe they can challenge a boys varsity team next.
Require them to wear Betsy Ross flags on their jerseys. That’ll trigger them!
I am going to pray they lose because they don’t deserve to win.
I’m sure all the lesbians will stick together ... hope Trump doesn’t invite the perverts to stain the WH.
Just a bunch of uncouth lesbos with a platform. In a week no one will recall their names.
My guess is they don’t want to go to the White House for fear they would have to stand next to Melania Trump. Half the team would start hitting on her....
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