What It Means to Piss Off Trump

When you're a retired WNBA superstar like Bird and former elite soccer pro like Rapinoe, with six Olympic gold medals between you, how could you be shaken by something as trivial as the weather—or, in Rapinoe's case, Donald Trump posting that "the USA is going to Hell!!!" because you missed a penalty kick back in the 2023 World Cup? Actually, Rapinoe might be more bothered by the storm clouds than she ever was about the other thing. "That says everything about the person he is," she says with a shrug. "But I think it also says a lot about who I am, the fact that he was trying to go after me." Rapinoe's public protests of Trump date back to 2019, and the LGBTQ+ advocate has drawn his ire many times on social media in the years since.

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