Megan Rapinoe and Donald Trump (Photos via Getty Images)
Megan Rapinoe’s worst nightmare has come true.
In her weekly podcast, the former U.S. women’s soccer star made a plea to voters less than a week before Election Day, calling out former President Donald Trump for what she calls the “grim” and “violent reality” of what his presidency would look like if he would win.
“It is stressful. I am nervous, but I also am hopeful. I believe in people and I certainly believe in women and I believe that people want better than the grim, dark, just violent reality that Donald Trump has very clearly laid out for us,” Rapinoe said. “He’s telling everybody what he’s gonna do and it’s really dark and it’s really sad and I don’t think anybody wants to live like that.”
According to the AP’s election results, he was also leading in the popular vote count. If that happens, he would become the first Republican in two decades to win the popular vote. It was way back in 2004 when George W. Bush won the popular vote against John Kerry.
Everything that could’ve gone wrong did, in fact, go that way for Megan Rapinoe.
On Rapinoe’s podcast, “A Touch More,” she got right to the point as she spoke on Trump winning the election by what she described as a “close margin.”
“To get started this week, we’re just going to talk about it right at the top, Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris in the 2024 election by a close margin,” Rapinoe said.
Trump received over 75.8 million votes. Harris, meanwhile, received around 72.8 million votes.
Megan Rapinoe then spoke on being overwhelmed and how she feels for trans kids as well as families that are going to be destroyed by mass deportations.
“I feel overwhelmed by the reality that is going to be a Trump presidency, which we have seen before, so I don’t feel like I’m saying anything new, but the reality where anything crazy could happen any day, I think that is really overwhelming,” Rapinoe continued, via OutKick.”
“I think that I feel not so much personally scared, because I think that you know, we live in a very progressive place, we’re unbelievably privileged in our place in the world and life and, you know, financially and all of these things. I think the fear extends to just people in general that will be really affected. I’m thinking of all my trans friends and people that I know and trans kids. I’m thinking about the potential of mass deportations if that is going to happen, and kind of just general chaos.”
Megan Rapinoe concluded her rant by stating America was “founded on slavery and inequalitAlso
