PHILADELPHIA — World Cup champion Megan Rapinoe could be the nation’s top diplomat if Washington Gov. Jay Inslee wins the presidency.
“My first act will be to ask Megan Rapinoe to be my secretary of state,” Inslee said Saturday at Netroots Nation. “I haven’t asked her yet.”
Inslee said Rapinoe’s comments after winning the World Cup are an “antithesis of the president’s foreign policies.”
Rapinoe urged Americans to treat each other with respect after a parade for the women’s national team in New York earlier this month.
“We have to be better,” she said. “We have to love more, hate less. We got to listen more and talk less. We got to know that this is everybody’s responsibility. Every single person here, every single person who’s not here, every single person who doesn’t want to be here. Every single person who agrees and doesn’t agree. It’s our responsibility to make this world a better place,” she said.
President Trump and Rapinoe feuded during the Women’s World Cup after the soccer star said she was not going “the f—ing White House” if her team won.
Trump told Rapinoe to “finish the job” before dissing him and called her protests of the national anthem disrespectful.
Rapinoe plays for the Reign FC, located in Washington state, when she is not playing for the national team.
