US women’s national soccer team star Megan Rapinoe made it clear on Sunday that she’d only visit the White House if President Donald Trump made lots of policy changes.
The athlete, fresh off her team’s victory in the Women’s World Cup, told “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd that she hasn’t really deviated from her initial refusal to go to the White House (a comment that caused Trump to have a Twitter meltdown).
“There’s like 50 policy issues that we can probably reverse and get going,” Rapinoe laughed. “I mean, it would take a tremendous amount.”
“I think I understand that progress is sometimes slow, and I’ll never close any door all the way, but I think it would take more than Trump is willing to do,” she added.
Watch Rapinoe below:
Megan Rapinoe: "There's like 50 policy issues" Trump would have to reverse before I visit the White House pic.twitter.com/pPnxGTuMru
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Think outside the box, Megan. Pretty sure the simultaneous resignations of Trump and Pence would be enough to get you to visit the WH.
There has always been a co-mingling of sports and politics. From Jesse Owens to Jackie Robinson, from the Black Power Salute in 1968 to Colin Kaepernick today, from the inspired play of the 1980 US Olympic hockey team to the rampant cheating of the various Eastern European Olympic teams to demonstrate the superiority of their political system, sports has seemingly always been coopted by politicians.
Some have compared Rapinoe to Ali -and she certainly has his charisma and charm -not to mention brashness and comfort with controversy, so perhaps a spot-on comparison. Certainly, America loves her sports heroes and as such (as well as an honorary member of The Squad), she could prove to be an unexpected thorn in Trump’s side.
“Well, then … you just need to go back where you came from. No hamberders for you!”
I preferred the spirit of her earlier statement, that she wasn’t going to the fucking White House.
She is right, of course, about “50” policies, but really it should be much more than that: the president of the United States of America is an evil, sociopathic, moronic bastard, a disgusting human being, and he is surrounded by evil toadies. Not wanting to endorse this sick situation seems to me to be a more profound reason for not to go to thew WH. It should be OK to say that. Call it like it is.