The former presider of the United States of America (USA) criticised the US women’s football team after they were knocked out of the Women’s World Cup 2023 in the round of 16.
Trump, who is the leading Republican candidate for the 2024 presidential election, could not resist the opportunity to slam the team he has a history with.
The 77-year-old criticised the football team and called them “woke” in a post on Truth Social — an alternative and extreme social media platform set up by Trump after he was banned by multiple others.
“The “shocking and totally unexpected” loss by the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team to Sweden is fully emblematic of what is happening to the our once great Nation under Crooked Joe Biden,” he wrote.
“Many of our players were openly hostile to America - No other country behaved in such a manner, or even close.
“WOKE EQUALS FAILURE. Nice shot Megan, the USA is going to Hell!!! MAGA.”
The last line is a dig at US’ Megan Rapinoe who missed a penalty in the shootout.
It must be noted that some US players even refused to sing the national anthem before matches.
However, this was not the first time Trump unleashed on the US women’s football team. In the past, he took an aggressive approach after they came back with a bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games.
“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,” he said in a statement he released back in August 2021.
“Woke means you lose, everything that is woke goes bad, and our soccer team certainly has.”
Trump targeted Rapinoe after the Olympics result mainly because of her history of political activism.
“The woman with the purple hair played terribly and spends too much time thinking about radical left politics and not doing her job!,” he said.
This year was the first time the USA have been eliminated before the semi-final stage in the history of the Women’s World Cup.