{"id":1993268,"date":"2023-08-07T15:17:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T19:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-unleashes-on-rapinoe-after-her-huge-miss-woke-equals-failure-nice-shot-megan\/"},"modified":"2023-08-07T15:21:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T19:21:23","slug":"trump-unleashes-on-rapinoe-after-her-huge-miss-woke-equals-failure-nice-shot-megan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-unleashes-on-rapinoe-after-her-huge-miss-woke-equals-failure-nice-shot-megan\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump criticizes Rapinoe for her missed shot, saying &#8220;Woke equals failure&#8221; and sarcastically commenting, &#8220;Nice shot, Megan.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-unleashes-on-rapinoe-after-her-huge-miss-woke-equals-failure-nice-shot-megan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1993268&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Trump Unleashes on\u2064 Rapinoe After Her Huge Miss: &#8216;Woke\u2062 Equals Failure,&#8217; &#8216;Nice Shot Megan&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>When Donald\u2062 Trump takes a shot, it actually\u2064 hits.<\/p>\n<p>The former \u200dpresident joined the chorus of Americans criticizing \u2064soon-to-be-retiring soccer \u200bstar Megan Rapinoe over her \u200cperformance in\u2063 the Women\u2019s World\u2062 Cup on Sunday, but took it beyond the \u2062team\u2019s \u2062embarrassingly \u200dfast ouster from the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>It\u200b was an example for the country, Trump \u2062declared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe \u2018shocking and totally unexpected\u2019 loss \u200dby the U.S. Women\u2019s Soccer Team to\u2063 Sweden is fully \u2064emblematic of what\u200c is happening to the\u2064 our\u200b once \u2062great Nation under Crooked\u200d Joe\u200d Biden,\u201d Trump wrote, in an uncharacteristic blend of upper and lowercase letters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of our\u2063 players were openly hostile \u2062to America \u2013 No other country behaved in \u2063such a manner, or even close. WOKE EQUALS\u2064 FAILURE. Nice shot Megan, the USA is going to Hell!!! MAGA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump,\u200d of course, was not alone in venting about the \u200cU.S. Women\u2019s\u2062 National Team loss to \u2064Sweden in Melbourne, Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Plenty of \u2064Americans, long since\u2063 tired\u2063 of Rapinoe\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-unleashes-on-rapinoe-after-her-huge-miss-woke-equals-failure-nice-shot-megan\/\" title=\"Trump criticizes Rapinoe for her missed shot, saying \"Woke equals failure\" and sarcastically commenting, \"Nice shot, Megan.\"\">show-boating\u200b leftist antics<\/a> took to social media to gripe, \u200ctoo.<\/p>\n<p>But\u200d linking\u200d Rapinoe\u2019s penalty kick performance to \u2063President\u2064 Joe Biden\u2019s massive \u200dfailures in the president \u200dhad a particularly personal note for Trump \u2014 given that he\u2019s far and away Biden\u2019s strongest potential challenger for the presidency in 2024. (He leads the GOP primary pack by \u200b38 points,\u2063 according to the RealClearPolitics polling average.)<\/p>\n<p>And \u200cwhile it might be hard to prove a data-based case\u2063 that Rapinoe\u2019s \u200bpolitics \u2014 and those of her teammates\u200c \u2014 had an impact on their play on\u200d the \u2062pitch,\u2063 it\u2019s not\u200c hard to see intuitively that there might\u2062 be\u2062 a connection.<\/p>\n<p>This is a\u2064 team with so \u200dlittle respect for the nation it represents that its players\u200b couldn\u2019t find the motivation to \u2064mouth the words to \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner\u201d before \u200cthe World \u2064Cup competition.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a team that has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/censorships-biggest-cheerleaders-will-always-be-our-corrupt-corporate-media\/\" title=\"Censorship\u2019s Biggest Cheerleaders Will Always Be Our Corrupt Corporate Media\">spent years building<\/a> a brand\u200c not of\u200b excellence on the playing\u2064 field but\u2064 entitlement in the\u2062 political arena.<\/p>\n<p>And it was\u2062 expecting to win a record third \u200bWorld Cup \u2064in a row? For\u2063 what? A\u2063 country its members spit on?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWOKE EQUALS FAILURE,\u201d Trump wrote\u2064 in the\u2063 post, returning briefly to \u2063uppercase form,\u2063 and making the point unmistakeably clear.<\/p>\n<p>And there were plenty who\u200d agreed.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Trump captures the\u200c larger significance of Megan \u200bRapinoe\u2019s epic fail! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XtiFXot0em\">pic.twitter.com\/XtiFXot0em<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dinesh D\u2019Souza (@DineshDSouza) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DineshDSouza\/status\/1688370330023108608?\">August 7, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Donald is not alone.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bink\u200b (@Bink75221438) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bink75221438\/status\/1688570991172046848?\">August 7, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"qme\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kg6QWg66fk\">pic.twitter.com\/kg6QWg66fk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Robert Hockenbraugh (@RobertHockenbr2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobertHockenbr2\/status\/1688576408698970113?\">August 7, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Of\u200c course, there were\u2064 plenty of anti-Trumpers on social media, attacking Trump\u2063 for attacking Rapinoe, and acting as \u200dthough \u2064he \u2063was glad an\u200b <em>American<\/em> team lost in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-trans-olympic-athlete-my-goal-is-to-win-the-olympics-so-i-can-burn-a-u-s-flag-on-the-podium\/\" title=\"U.S. Trans Olympic Athlete: \u2018My Goal Is To Win The Olympics So I Can Burn A U.S. Flag On The Podium\u2019\">international competition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But as\u200d much as Rapinoe and her teammates \u200drankle, it\u2019s rare \u2062to find a \u2062conservative rooting outright\u200b for the red, white and blue to\u200b be humiliated in \u200dany context, or any sport.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, about the only thing that would make many conservatives\u2063 even pause\u2063 the remote control\u200b for a soccer game \u2014 \u2063men\u2019s or women\u2019s \u2014 would be \u2063the chance to cheer on the American team.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the essential relationship\u200d between a nation \u2063and its athletes.<\/p>\n<p>Rapinoe and her\u200c teammates unilaterally destroyed that bond.<\/p>\n<p>And there is nothing\u2062 in \u200cthe \u200cleast un-patriotic about\u2064 not rooting for Rapinoe, a warped, self-centered\u2064 creature\u200c whose major talent appears to be self-promotion rather than team play \u2014 including broadcasting her\u2064 own sexuality to a country that couldn\u2019t care less.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s nothing un-patriotic \u200dabout\u2062 not rooting\u2063 for players who lack the decency \u2014 even\u200b the manners \u2014 to treat their own country\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-goes-crazy-for-brittney-griners-slam-dunk-but-basketball-fans-spot-an-immediate-problem\/\" title=\"Media frenzy over Brittney Griner's epic slam dunk, yet basketball enthusiasts quickly notice a glaring issue.\">national \u200banthem<\/a> with the respect it deserves, and\u2064 choose to stage a \u200bsilly \u200dinternational \u2062protest, as though they\u2019re black South Africans during the darkest\u2063 days of\u200c apartheid \u2014 \u2063or simply the betrayed Afghan women Biden surrendered to the Taliban in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The USNWT was \u200can international embarrassment to Americans long before Rapinoe\u2019s \u200cmonumental\u2063 miss in Melbourne \u2064and Trump has been onto their scam \u200bfor years.<\/p>\n<p>On \u200dSunday, \u2062that came\u200b to a head.<\/p>\n<p>And \u200cwhen Trump took his shot, it was dead on.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-unleashes-rapinoe-huge-miss-woke-equals-failure-nice-shot-megan\/\">Trump Unleashes on \u2063Rapinoe After\u2062 Her\u2062 Huge Miss: &#8216;Woke \u2062Equals Failure,&#8217;\u2063 &#8216;Nice Shot Megan&#8217;<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western\u200b Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former president Donald Trump didn&#8217;t hold back in his criticism of soccer star Megan Rapinoe&#8217;s performance in the Women&#8217;s World Cup. He went beyond their early exit from the tournament, stating that it was a reflection of the country. Trump&#8217;s words hit hard, proving his ability to make an impact with his remarks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2007,"featured_media":1993269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2007"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1993269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}