Posted on 06/26/2019 8:29:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
American women's soccer co-captain Megan Rapinoe is not planning to go to the White House if the national team wins the World Cup.
A reporter from Eight by Eight, a soccer magazine that looks at the sport and its place in culture, asked Rapinoe if she was excited about going to the White House if her team wins the Women's World Cup.
"Psssh, I'm not going to the f*****g White House," she fired back before the reporter finished the question. "No. I'm not going to the White House. We're not gonna be invited. I doubt it."
The magazine posted the short interview clip Tuesday on Twitter.
The US national team is competing in the Women's World Cup, and plays host country France on Friday.
It's not the first time professional athletes have turned down a visit to the White House.
The Golden State Warriors swapped White House visit for African-American history museum.
The Golden State Warriors decided not to go to the White House last year after winning an NBA title. Before their scheduled visit, President Donald Trump revoked their invitation on Twitter.
Trump also canceled a visit from the 2018 Super Bowl champions Philadelphia Eagles because of controversy over standing for the national anthem at games.
Rapinoe, one of the women's national team's co-captains, has been outspoken about social justice issues. In 2016, she was among the first white professional athletes to show solidarity with Colin Kaepernick when media first began reporting on his kneeling during the national anthem. Rapinoe knelt during a game a month after it was first noticed that Kaepernick was kneeling.
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Rapinoe with her WNBA partner Sue Bird.
Of COURSE not .... he’s going to visit the Mooch and see if Mike will fuck HIM !
My bad, that is Dafoe!!!! Coulda sworn it was Rapinoe LOL
Why does the WH invite sports champions anyway? Not like a Nobel prize winner. They can go to Disney World instead.
Maybe she will get an invitation to a San Francisco Bath House.
However, I am heartened that none of her other teammates follow
her lead.
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Another player on the team also stated that she will not go to White House...Alex Morgan...
A good reason to pull for France and not the US...
Looks like the dude Ralph Macchio beat in Karate Kid.
Gag!!
Honestly, I can’t do that. Not for the one petty, petulant individual. Look at the picture. The other women have their hand over their hearts. Don’t punish the whole team because one is being a ridiculous child.
Best thing that could happen, she get's red carded the match prior to the finals and has to miss the finals. [1]. She doesn't play in the championship game, no big deal she doesn't go to the W.H.
Yet another deranged lesbian feminist butthurt wiccan-loving anti-Christian leftist heard from.... My girls don’t play sports precisely because these are the people they would encounter if they ever did become successful.
It was weird I watched the entire first half and not one single mention of her even during the national anthem.
I hate to break it to you... At college levels and beyond female athletes are 90% lesbian. If you are straight and playing college-level sports you will be shunned by your teammates.
That’s not Dafoe in post #113, it is Denis Leary.
“Meh. Its womens soccer. They have been beaten by 15 year old boys”
Same thing happens with the women’s olympic hockey team.
Now the White House doesn't need to disinfect the place after she'd (it'd?) left.
‘Xer team wont be winning the World Cup.’
I think they will...and that Ms Rapinoe will become the heroic model for young girls...
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