Megyn Kelly rips US girls’s soccer staff for standing silent in the course of the Nationwide Anthem at World Cup

Podcast host Megyn Kelly lashed out on the US Girls’s soccer staff on Monday following their conduct final week which noticed many of the players remaining silent during the playing of The Star-Spangled Banner earlier than Friday’s World Cup opener in New Zealand.

Earlier than thrashing Vietnam, 3-0, six of 11 beginning gamers opted towards inserting their arms over their hearts, as an alternative maintaining their arms at their sides or behind their backs. 

5 others did put their arms on their hearts, together with three — Julie Ertz, Alyssa Naeher and Lindsey Horan — who additionally sang the phrases to the nationwide anthem.

The Vietnamese girls, however, have been all seen singing their anthem in full voice with their arms on their chests.

Kelly stated that the staff’s actions proved that the ladies in actual fact ‘hate’ their nation. 

Megyn Kelly expressed her dismay on the actions of the US Girls’s soccer staff a lot of whom didn’t sing the Nationwide Anthem earlier than their World Cup opener

USA gamers line up for the nationwide anthem previous to their first FIFA Girls’s World Cup sport

USA gamers line up for the nationwide anthem previous to the FIFA Girls’s World Cup 

Some US gamers did put their arms over their hearts whereas singing the nationwide anthem. Pictured from left, Julie Ertz, Naomi Girma and Alyssa Naeher 

The Vietnamese girls have been all seen singing their anthem with their arms on their chests

‘I actually do imagine their model of what a feminist is, what it means to be an empowered girl, not less than as an American girl, means you could hate your nation. It means to exit on the nationwide stage and embarrass your self and your nation by not singing the nationwide anthem,’ Kelly started.

Kelly was incensed that the ladies didn’t sing the Nationwide Anthem or place their arms over their coronary heart 

‘For a number of of them, not even holding their arms over their hearts when the nationwide anthem performed, that was a bridge too far. They could not be bothered to truly place their hand on their coronary heart because the nationwide anthem performed, as they stood on the market representing you and me and the nation and our navy and individuals who have given their lives for the nation that they signify,’ she went on.

Kelly lay a lot of the blame at two-time World Cup Champion and Olympic Gold Medalist, Megan Rapinoe.

Rapinoe, the previous staff captain, has been an outspoken advocate for LGBTQ rights, pay fairness and the BLM motion in latest yr. She just lately introduced that she is going to retire following the 2023 match.  

‘It was an excessive amount of of an effort [for them] to position their hand over their coronary heart, or God forbid, sing… And by the way in which, Megan Rapinoe, too. She’s on the staff. She introduced her retirement….She stated she’ll by no means stand once more for the nationwide anthem, this [team behavior] is clearly, I believe, on account of her affect, and it is disgusting.’ 

Kelly was joined on her podcast by Emily Jashinsky, Tradition Editor at The Federalist, middle,  and Eliana Johnson Editor-in-chief of The Washington Free Beacon

Kelly lay a lot of the blame at two-time World Cup Champion and Olympic Gold Medalist, Megan Rapinoe, pictured on Saturday

Rapinoe’s stance on trans inclusion in girls’s sports activities is not held by all within the LGBTQ+ group, with tennis legend Martina Navratilova towards male-to-female inclusion

Kelly was not completed and continued to bash Rapinoe, who has performed for the nationwide staff since 2006. 

Her World Cup debut got here in the course of the 2011 World Cup match – the place she scored a objective towards Colombia and had the primary of many memorable celebrations. 

‘What an unimaginable alternative to face on the market, representing the USA of America in World Cup soccer, and you may’t be shamed into not less than feigning a contact of patriotism…We’re disgusting I assume with regards to human rights. That is what individuals like Rapinoe have stated previously. So we will not be saluted in any manner.

‘This girl Megan Rapinoe has an issue. Simply final week, she was on the market saying, “What is the matter with trans athletes enjoying towards girls? The place are all these trans athletes who’re taking away girls’s rights?” 

‘Clearly she’s a dumbass who pays no consideration to the information. It will take about two seconds of a Google so that you can give you an extended checklist which I learn to her partly when she made that inane assertion.’

Rapinoe is on the quilt of Time Journal forward of this summer season’s Girls’s World Cup 

Rapinoe helped to steer the USA to its fourth World Cup title in 2019

Throughout the course of her careers, Rapinoe has totally established herself not solely as a talented participant on the pitch, however an outspoken advocate off it. 

She turned the primary white athlete to kneel for the nationwide anthem, doing so in solidarity with NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick for the primary time in an early September 2016 sport towards the Chicago Pink Stars.

‘It was slightly nod to Kaepernick and all the things that he is standing for proper now,’ Rapinoe stated on the time, after the sport. ‘I believe it is truly fairly disgusting the way in which he was handled and the way in which that lots of the media has lined it and made it about one thing that it completely is not.

‘Being a homosexual American, I do know what it means to take a look at the flag and never have it shield all your liberties.It was one thing small that I might do and one thing that I plan to maintain doing sooner or later and hopefully spark some significant dialog round it,’ she stated.

US Soccer additionally steered they disliked her protest, saying, ‘As a part of the privilege to signify your nation, we now have an expectation that our gamers and coaches will stand and honor our flag whereas the nationwide anthem is performed.’

Rapinoe went on to say {that a} rule US Soccer made requiring its athletes to face for the anthem was made ‘with out ever speaking to me’ and added that she would by no means sing the Star-Spangled Banner once more.

Rapinoe went on to say {that a} rule US Soccer made requiring its athletes to face for the anthem was made ‘with out ever speaking to me’ and added that she would by no means sing the Star-Spangled Banner once more, pictured on July 9 throughout a pleasant towards Wales

She’s now married to UConn and WNBA girls’s basketball legend Sue Chicken (proper)

Rapinoe is an outspoken LGBT activist, having been out publicly since 2012

Rapinoe turned the primary white athlete to kneel for the nationwide anthem, becoming a member of Kaepernick

Rapinoe celebrated her first objective at a World Cup in 2011, singing ‘Born within the USA’ right into a mic

Along with her solidarity with Kaepernick, Rapinoe’s activism additionally prolonged to the LGBTQ+ group.

As a lesbian herself, now married to UConn and WNBA girls’s basketball legend Sue Chicken, Rapinoe has been on the forefront of advocating for the rights of those that establish as aside from cisgender and heterosexual.

She’s been publicly out since 2012, and has advocated for the rights of all who embody themselves in that group.

However in latest occasions, she’s been notably outspoken concerning the transgender group and their position in sports activities – particularly those that have transitioned from male to feminine.

Whereas some within the sports activities world, together with tennis icon and fellow lesbian Martina Navratilova, have been towards the inclusion of MTF (male-to-female) individuals collaborating in girls’s sports activities, Rapinoe has been in favor of that inclusion.

With 22 states banning transgender college students from collaborating in sports activities in line with their gender id, Rapinoe has turned her focus that wrestle. 

Rapinoe & the US are favorites to win the 2023 Girls’s World Cup in Australia & New Zealand

The lesbian activist and icon is ready to step away from her on-field profession after 4 World Cups

She just lately instructed Time Journal that she would welcome a trans woman onto the USWNT, saying that the argument that MTF individuals take the spot of a ‘actual’ girl is a transphobic thought.

‘I see trans girls as actual girls,’ Rapinoe stated. ‘What you are saying mechanically within the argument—you are type of telling on your self already—is you do not imagine these persons are girls. Due to this fact, they’re taking the opposite spot. I do not really feel that manner.

‘We as a rustic are attempting to legislate away individuals’s full humanity,’ she stated.

She took particular purpose at those that declare to be defending girls’s sports activities.

‘It is notably irritating when girls’s sports activities is weaponized,’ she continued. ‘Oh, now we care about equity? Now we care about girls’s sports activities? That is complete bulls***. And present me all of the trans people who find themselves nefariously making the most of being trans in sports activities. It is simply not taking place.’

Trans athletes aren’t essentially a brand new phenomenon in America, however the success of Penn swimmer Lia Thomas has ignited a nationwide debate amongst athletes, followers, officers, and even politicians.