Megan Rapinoe has slammed former President Donald Trump for not supporting the US soccer team at the Tokyo Olympics.
Trump raised eyebrows after he called the team "Leftist Maniacs" after they won a bronze medal, and went on to add that they would have won a gold medal if they were not so "woke".
Trump commented in an official statement delivered to the press, which read: "If our soccer team, headed by a radical group of Leftist Maniacs, wasn’t woke, they would have won the Gold Medal instead of the Bronze."
He continued: "Woke means you lose, everything that is woke goes bad, and our soccer team certainly has. There were, however, a few Patriots standing. Unfortunately, they need more than that respecting our Country and National Anthem.
"They should replace the wokesters with Patriots and start winning again. The woman with the purple hair played terribly and spends too much time thinking about Radical Left politics and not doing her job."
"The woman with the purple hair" is believed to be a shot at USWNT forward Rapinoe.
Now Rapinoe has spoken out after being singled out by the former POTUS.
"It's a real sad dig into an old bag," Rapinoe said, per Insider, after she was asked about the comments. "I'm just like, 'You’re rooting for people to do bad?' Yikes."
Rapinoe has been an outspoken voice on the gender pay gap and has demanded fair pay from the US Soccer Federation.
The athlete has also kneeled for the national anthem to protest racial injustice issues, which was not welcomed with open arms by Trump.
Rapinoe said that despite it not being "the tournament we wanted" after falling short in the semi-final by Canada, she was proud of the team's achievements at the Olympics.
"The performance we had in the last game, that’s who we want to be and that’s who we are," she said.
Commenting on the result in a later interview with reporters, 36-year-old Team US captain Becky Sauerbrunn said, per New York Times: "That bronze means so much. It feels like we really had to earn that thing. And we’re very proud of it."
She continued: "Obviously we wanted to get a gold medal. Everyone wants to get a gold medal, Americans love golds. The fact is we potentially didn’t deserve to get a gold medal. We had to change the goal, and it became: 'Let's get that bronze.'"