Megan Rapinoe started this with this comment before Trump said anything:
“When asked whether she was excited to go to the White House (if the team does indeed take the tournament) by a reporter from the outlet Eight by Eight, she responded, “I’m not going to the fucking White House.” She then added, “We’re not gonna be invited…. I doubt it.”
https://www.glamour.com/story/megan-rapinoe-white-house-comment-controversy
If you are going to play in the big leagues of politics, and make comments contrary to who is paying your bill to play for a country you do not wish to represent to make your money displayed by the comment you made about a White House invite using language you should never use to the media to be broadcast to youth, then expect some negative returns from the people you insulted. It makes you nothing but a political prostitute.
And for someone to follow Rapinoe for other than the reason for the trading of insults and just because she is a team member and not for the way the insults were done, indicates to me someone with no character in standing up for a correct way of doing things and protecting the country she competes for and lives in for the people and the youth within it. And both use the sport to put food in her mouths and a roof over her head at the expense of the American Taxpayer. It’s like the man said in Star Wars, “Who’s the fool, the fool or the fool who follows?” Unless Kreiger agrees with Rapinoe on Trump, a man neither has ever met and doesn’t know anything but what the media presents, then she’s no better than Rapinoe. And if it is for other reasons, lay them out coward or you should just keep your 15 minutes of fame mouth shut. Especially since soccer in this country has afforded you a net worth of $3 million and earns $4,950 per game with the US team. That ends up being about $99,000 a year. The median wage for workers in the United States in the first quarter of 2019 was $905 per week or $47,060 per year for a 40-hour workweek. I guess it is worth double the medium wage in the country to be stupid and led by the nose for a sport that will contribute nothing to the safety and security to this country. The average wage of police in the US is $42,793 and the average for an army infantry sargeant, one that steps in front of a bullet for a living, is $39,135 yearly. And the players play a game that in the long run means nothing. They ought to be embarrassed instead of being imbolden for the way they handled this.
Rapinoe lacks integrity and Kreiger lacks intestinal fortitude or independent thought. Take your pick.
rwood
Her foul mouth, in past years, would have gotten her kicked off the us team.
So would being a carpet muncher, for the others.