Trump, who has yet to invite the U.S. women’s national soccer team to the White House, has been pushing a message that is “excluding people,” Rapinoe said.
Megan Rapinoe, the co-captain of the U.S. women’s national soccer team, had a searing message for President Donald Trump.
“I would not go and every teammate that I’ve talked to explicitly about it would not go,” she told Cooper. — Anderson Cooper 360° July 10, 2019 “I don’t think anyone on the team has any interest in lending the platform we’ve worked so hard to build and the things that we fight for and the way that we live our lives ― I don’t think we want that to be co-opted or corrupted by this administration,” Rapinoe said, explaining why she and her teammates would skip a trip to the White House.
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