Donald Trump, Who Is Mentioned to Recurrently Cheat at Golf, Taunts Megan Rapinoe Over World Cup Loss

On Sunday night time, after the US girls’s soccer crew was eradicated from the World Cup, former president Donald Trump took to social media to specific his disappointment within the consequence, whereas self-deprecatingly acknowledging that the ladies on the sphere have extra athleticism of their huge toes than he does in his complete physique. No, simply f–king with you, after all. That state of affairs is about as probably because the ex-president publishing an essay on Substack admitting that he’s come to comprehend the injury he’s performed to the nation during the last seven-to-eight years, and why it might be completely inappropriate for him to serve a second time period, or Melania Trump saying in an interview that one factor folks don’t learn about her husband is that he’s a “light lover who places his accomplice’s wants earlier than his personal.”

As a substitute, the ex-president logged on to Reality Social to kind/scream: “The ’stunning and completely sudden’ loss by the U.S. Ladies’s Soccer Crew to Sweden is absolutely emblematic of what’s taking place to the our as soon as nice Nation underneath Crooked Joe Biden. Lots of our gamers have been overtly hostile to America – No different nation behaved in such a way, and even shut. WOKE EQUALS FAILURE. Good shot Megan, the USA goes to Hell!!! MAGA.”

Clearly, there’s lots happening right here. There’s the concept the US girls’s soccer crew misplaced as a result of its gamers have gone “woke,” i.e. a Republican obsession that they themselves are unable to outline. There’s an try and jam in an assault on Biden, and counsel that he performed a job within the consequence. (Possibly Hunter Biden and his associates paid the crew to throw the sport! A GOP panel ought to look into this ASAP!) And there’s a five-alarm declaration that “the USA goes to Hell!!!,” that are undoubtedly the phrases, and sentiment, of a rational particular person who folks ought to belief with the nuclear codes.

Largely, although, it’s the taunting of participant Megan Rapinoe—whom Trump has a historical past with—that stands out, and never simply because he’s mocking a participant who represents the USA, which he’s hoping to steer (“lead”) once more come January 20, 2025. Trump’s ridicule appears particularly notable as a result of he apparently sees nothing untoward about attacking another person’s athleticism, even supposing, in relation to his sport of selection, he’s recognized for dishonest on a regular basis. In January, for instance, he allegedly cheated at a event at his personal golf membership. That got here after years of honing his craft, dishonest, the main points of which have been reported in 2019 in Rick Reilly’s Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump, which incorporates such gems as:

Trump doesn’t simply cheat at golf. He cheats like a three-card Monte supplier. He throws it, boots it, and strikes it. He lies about his lies. He fudges and foozles and fluffs. At Winged Foot, the place Trump is a member, the caddies acquired so used to seeing him kick his ball again onto the golf green they got here up with a nickname for him: “Pele.”

And:

To say “Donald Trump cheats” is like saying “Michael Phelps swims.” He cheats on the highest stage. He cheats when persons are watching, and he cheats after they aren’t. He cheats whether or not you prefer it or not. He cheats as a result of that’s how he performs golf, that’s how he discovered it, that’s how he wants it, and whether or not you’re his pharmacist or Tiger Woods, if you happen to’re taking part in golf with him, he’s going to cheat. In reality, he did cheat with Tiger Woods.