Former US President Donald Trump has lashed out at his country’s women’s soccer team, which was knocked out on penalties from the World Cup by Sweden, citing “the failure of woke thinking”. In the running for a return to the White House in 2024, Donald Trump claimed Sunday evening on his own TruthSocial website that the defeat was “quite emblematic of what is happening to our once great nation under the tenure of corrupt Joe Biden. “.
“Many of our players were openly hostile to the United States. No other selection behaved like this. It’s the failure of woke thinking, “he said, before ironically on the shot on goal missed by the former Golden Ball Megan Rapinoe, a” nice shot Megan “.
Long standard of women’s football at home and abroad, Megan Rapinoe was on the verge of tears in her post-match interview on Sunday, after the elimination 5-4 on penalties (0-0 ap) in Melbourne. “Sounds like a bad joke,” she said. For me, it’s a nightmare, I missed a shot on goal. »
The wife of the American president, Jill Biden, for her part quickly congratulated the Americans on their journey. “Today you have inspired us with your courage and determination. We are proud of you,” she wrote on Twitter, renamed “X.”
Despite two victories at the last two World Cups, the women’s national team is regularly taken to task by the American right, in particular because of its commitment to social justice.
Many conservative elected officials had been particularly shocked by the fact that several players from the selection had taken a knee during the national anthem in recent years to protest against racial inequalities in the country.