Published on : 06/08/2021 – 04:14
Former US President Donald Trump took advantage of the Olympics to make people talk about him on Thursday. The billionaire attacked Captain Megan Rapinoe and the American selection led, according to him, “by a radical group of crazy leftists” whose political commitment would have prevented them from winning the gold medal.
Since his defeat in the presidential election in November 2020, Donald Trump no longer knows how to get people talking about him. So he goes all out, hoping to keep the flame alive with his supporters. Thursday, August 5, the former US president crushed the American women’s football team, led in his words, “by a radical group of crazy leftists”, for his defeat in the semi-finals of the Olympic football tournament in Tokyo.
Beaten by the Canadians (1-0), the American selection however ended on a good note Thursday, August 5, by dominating the Australians 4 to 3, thanks in particular to a double from Megan Rapinoe.
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“If our football team, led by a radical left wing group, weren’t ‘woke’,” a term denoting awareness of racial and gender injustices and used with disdain by some conservatives, “they would have won the gold medal instead of the bronze, “reacted the Republican in a statement.” The woman with the purple hair played very badly and spends too much time thinking about radical left politics and not doing her job! “, he added of Megan Rapinoe, 36, double world champion and Olympic football champion.
A deep enmity between Rapinoe and Trump
Feminist activist, on the front line of the fight for LGBT + rights since her coming out in 2012, Megan Rapinoe is also very politically engaged.
The footballer had campaigned actively for Democrat Joe Biden during the 2020 presidential election, but was already before one of the billionaire’s pet peeves that she never hesitated to call a “white nationalist”.
In case of coronation at the World Cup, neither she nor her teammates would go to the “p … of the White House” under Donald Trump, she had notably warned in 2019. After a bitter tweet, the president had given up inviting the world champions in Washington after their victory at the Women’s World Cup held in France.
Fallacious arguments
“‘Woke’ means you lose, everything that is woke goes wrong, and this is certainly the case with our football team,” Donald Trump wrote in his press release.
Still, the argument is more than fallacious. If being “woke” is synonymous with defeat as Donald Trump implies, how can we explain that Megan Rapinoe and her gang fly over the hierarchy of world women’s football, notably with victories in the 2015 and 2019 World Cups?
Finally, Donald Trump should perhaps have taken a closer look at the Canadian selection which defeated the Americans in the semifinals. He would have seen that Quinn, midfielder and centerpiece of the Reds, is a non-binary transgender athlete, the first to be a medalist at the Olympics.
With AFP
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