Megan Rapinoe: 'We're everything Trump loves – except that we're powerful women'



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Fresh from World Cup victory, the US football star on politics, pay and the power of calling out injustice It is two weeks since the US women’s football team shut down midtown Manhattan on their World Cup victory parade and Megan Rapinoe, the team’s co-captain and most visible member, is still trying to come down from the high. We are in Los Angeles, where the US national team is due to play a friendly against Ireland. Rapinoe – slight, sharp-eyed, perennially amused – is considering the past fortnight. “How long can we be drunk for?” she says, laughing. “To go through such a high – there is obviously a comedown and nobody really has the time to decompress. I think everyone feels in this state of ‘Yes, this is awesome.’ But I’m also struggling to get back to normal.” The sense of unreality is particularly acute for Rapinoe, whose profile over the course of the tournament shot from mid-level sporting celebrity to something much bigger, thanks to, as she puts it with some understatement, “one of those general cultural events that happen”. This is a reference not only to her public spat with Donald Trump – in a video recorded before the World Cup that went viral during the tournament, she said: “I’m not going to the fucking White House,” when asked whether she was looking forward to a victorious visit – but to her demeanour in general. I always said that if the England team would loosen up a bit, you might have some success I think my dad voted for Trump. I’ll say: ‘How can you be proud of me, and watch Fox News do takedowns of me?’ We need to talk about money. For men it’s a mark of where you are. I have a $35,000 Rolex – people are going to know We’re a little more relatable than actresses who make millions of dollars – not that that makes inequality any better Continue reading…


Megan Rapinoe: 'We're everything Trump loves – except that we're powerful women'

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