Fight Location to be Determined

Well, it’s certainly nice to see the New York Times agreed with me on Sunday that other women’s soccer teams consider their U.S. opponents to be “Ugly Americans,” not that it kept the U.S. from winning its fourth World Cup yesterday.  Megan Rapinoe notched her sixth goal of the tournament in a 2-1 victory over the Netherlands.  The post-season is when things should get really interesting.

Rapinoe doesn’t like Donald Trump, and our president detests anyone who dares not to like him.  Rapinoe has already said she wouldn’t go to the White House, and that got Trump a-tweeting.  Once he figures out how to maximize his advantage against her, a torrent of early morning tweets will follow.  You can count on it.

Trump’s base most likely couldn’t care less about soccer, so he’ll be tempted to blast away at the sport and its players.  It’s independent voters who will give the president pause.  I’m guessing toss-up Congressional districts have plenty of soccer fans, especially women, and Trump will need their votes; ditto GOP representative and senators.  That means Trump will be pressured to play nice.  Only he doesn’t play nice.

Probably it’ll just take one crack from Rapinoe to set him off.  Then we’ll have ourselves a cage match on social media.  I can’t wait.