Article 5N069 ‘Woke means you lose’: Donald Trump rails at USWNT after Olympic bronze

‘Woke means you lose’: Donald Trump rails at USWNT after Olympic bronze

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Tom Lutz
from US news | The Guardian on (#5N069)
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Donald Trump, who spent significant portions of his presidency criticizing athletes, has been strangely quiet during the Tokyo Olympics. But on Thursday he popped up to take aim at one of his favourite targets: the US women's national soccer team.

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," Trump said in a statement that failed to explain why Canada, whose team have spent much of the last week showing support for their non-binary and trans midfielder Quinn, are in the gold medal match.

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