Donald Trump sure knows how to take a great occasion and make it awkward.
Trump hosted players from the Juventus soccer team at the White House on Wednesday, and things took an unexpected turn.
The meeting came ahead of the Italian club’s first match of the Club World Cup against Emirati team Al-Ain, which they ultimately won 5-0.
While talking to reporters about the issue of trans athletes, Trump turned to the players, asking, “Could a woman make your team, fellas?”
Nobody was expecting this type of question.
In response, Juventus teammates, including American players Timothy Weah and Weston McKennie, awkwardly smiled and shrugged without giving an answer to Donald Trump.
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Not willing to let it go, Trump then turned to the club’s general manager, Damien Comolli, asking the same question. In response, Comolli said, “We have a very good women’s team.”
The team won the latest Italian league championship.
Weah spoke about the interaction afterward, saying he was caught by surprise over the “weird” moment.
“I was kind of like, I just want to play football … They just told us that we have to go, and I had no choice but to go. So I guess it was a cool experience, obviously being in the White House as a first time… But I’m not one for the politics, so it wasn’t that exciting,” he said.
Donald Trump Signed an Executive Order Against Transgender Athletes
President Donald Trump signed an executive order intended to ban transgender athletes from participating in girls’ and women’s sports.
Trump signed Executive Order 14201, titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” aimed at prohibiting transgender women and girls from competing in girls’ and women’s sports at federally funded educational institutions.
The executive order defines sex based on “immutable biological classification as either male or female,” explicitly stating that “sex” is not the same as “gender identity.”
