Quote (kenw @ Aug 10 2021 03:18pm)
The women's soccer team won bronze instead of gold due their anti-white stance in regards to discrimination and racism according to the orange man. I suppose lamenting about losing the election and trying to overturn said election with spurious claims, which subsequently led to a predominantly white insurrection is deemed patriotic; whereas, winning a medal for your country while using your platform to denounce racism, sexism, etc is considered egregiously woke - it makes perfect sense.
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Donald Trump, who spent significant portions of his presidency criticizing athletes, has been strangely quiet during the Tokyo Olympics. But on Thursday he popped up to take aim at one of his favourite targets: the US women’s national soccer team.
“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,” Trump said in a statement that failed to explain why Canada, whose team have spent much of the last week showing support for their non-binary and trans midfielder Quinn, are in the gold medal match.
“Woke means you lose, everything that is woke goes bad, and our soccer team certainly has. There were, however, a few Patriots standing. Unfortunately, they need more than that respecting our Country and National Anthem,” continued the man who recently lost the presidential election, of the World Cup champions. The USWNT, along with other teams, have knelt before games at the Olympics to draw attention to racial injustice. They then stood for the national anthem.
“They should replace the wokesters with Patriots and start winning again. The woman with the purple hair played terribly and spends too much time thinking about Radical Left politics and not doing her job!” he added, referencing Megan Rapinoe, whose terrible performance included scoring two goals, one a magnificent volley, in the 4-3 victory over Australia.
Trump has a history with the US women’s team. In 2019, Rapinoe told the Guardian that: “We’re everything Trump loves – except that we’re powerful women”. She had angered Trump earlier that year by saying “I’m not going to the fucking White House” if the US won that summer’s World Cup. The team went on to clinch the trophy and did not made the traditional trip to meet the president after their victory.
“Considering how much time and effort and pride we take in the platform we have, using it for good and leaving the game in a better place and hopefully the world in a better place, I don’t think I would want to go,” Rapinoe said of the decision.
Trump launched verbal attacks on many athletes during his presidency, the majority of whom were either black, female or both. He called NFL players who peacefully protested during the national anthem “sons of bitches”, and in 2018 he tweeted that CNN host Don Lemon “made Lebron [James] look smart, which isn’t easy to do”, in response to a conversation the two men had about Trump’s attacks on black athletes.
" winning a medal for your country... "
let me fix it for you "winning a medal for country you hate................."
and don lemon makes any one look smart...............
"Trump’s attacks on black athletes"
(its not because they are black you racist)