Megan Rapinoe slams Donald Trump in bleak prediction of his second term as president

Predicting everything from 'general chaos' to a dystopian hellhole for transgender Americans, retired shot prima Megan Rapinoe slammed Donald Trump successful her bleak forecast for the President-elect's 2nd term.

'He's telling everybody what he's gonna bash and it's truly acheronian and it's truly bittersweet and I don't deliberation anybody wants to unrecorded similar that,' Rapinoe told her podcast and real-life partner, Sue Bird, connected 'A Touch More.'

Rapinoe has ever been captious of Trump but sharpened her absorption connected the 45th President successful 2022 erstwhile his hand-picked Supreme Court justices overturned Roe v. Wade, thereby pushing the statement implicit reproductive rights to the states.

And portion the Ballon d'Or Féminin victor and World Cup champion admits she is not 'personally scared' astir Trump's 2nd term, she is fearful for marginalized populations.

'I americium nervous, but I besides americium hopeful. I judge successful radical and I surely judge successful women and I judge that radical privation amended than the grim, dark, conscionable convulsive world that Donald Trump has precise intelligibly laid retired for us,' she said.

'I consciousness overwhelmed by the world that is going to beryllium a Trump presidency, which we person seen before, truthful I don't consciousness similar I'm saying thing new, but the world wherever thing brainsick could hap immoderate day, I deliberation that is truly overwhelming.

'I deliberation that I consciousness not truthful overmuch personally scared, due to the fact that I deliberation that you know, we unrecorded successful a precise progressive place, we're unbelievably privileged successful our spot successful the satellite and beingness and, you know, financially and each of these things,' she continued.

'I deliberation the fearfulness extends to conscionable radical successful wide that volition beryllium truly affected. I'm reasoning of each my trans friends and radical that I cognize and trans kids. I'm reasoning astir the imaginable of wide deportations if that is going to happen, and benignant of conscionable wide chaos.'

During his statesmanlike bid, Trump pledged to enforce wide-ranging restrictions and rotation backmost civilian rights protections for transgender students. And his medication tin swiftly commencement enactment connected 1 large change: It tin exclude transgender students from Title IX protections, which impact schoolhouse policies connected students' usage of pronouns, bathrooms and locker rooms.

One advertisement that aired implicit 15,000 times crystallized Trump's stance connected rights for transgender and nonbinary Americans: 'Kamala is for they/them. President Trump is for you.'

In the U.S., 3.3 percent of precocious schoolhouse students place arsenic transgender and different 2.2 percent question their gender, according to a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey released past month.

The survey recovered 72 percent of transgender and gender-questioning teens experienced persistent feelings of sadness and hopelessness successful the past year. These teens besides reported higher rates of bullying astatine schoolhouse compared with peers. About 1 successful 4 transgender students said they had attempted termination successful the past year, the CDC said.

Rapinoe's feud with Trump began successful 2019 erstwhile she showed disdain for his presidency implicit a bid of interviews. 

Things escalated before, during, and aft the FIFA Women's World Cup successful France wherever Rapinoe won the Golden Ball and Golden Boot awards arsenic the tournament's apical scorer and astir invaluable player.

When asked astir a imaginable White House visit, Rapinoe steadfastly refused, and she had Trump person been publically feuding ever since.