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Megan Rapinoe’s recent tirade against the U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team for accepting a congratulatory call from President Trump has exposed yet another example of elite sanctimony masquerading as concern. The soccer star accused the players of being “used” by the former president and suggested their moment of glory was co-opted for political theater, a dramatic take that played badly with many Americans who just want to celebrate our athletes.
What Rapinoe objected to was reportedly a jokey remark by Trump during the locker-room call about also having to invite the women’s gold-medal team to the State of the Union, and some members of the men’s team laughed in the awkward moment. Plenty of people can see how that could be misread in a tense, celebratory locker-room setting, but liberals like Rapinoe turned it into a morality play about patriotism and decency.
Rapinoe’s language didn’t stop at criticism — she called the players and the president “clowns” and refused to “platform that trash,” framing herself as the moral guardian of women’s sports even as she publicly piled on the men who had just won gold. That performative outrage reeks of the same self-righteousness that made her famous, and it’s striking how quickly “moral clarity” from the left becomes selective when it suits their narrative.
She also took issue with the presence of FBI Director Kash Patel in the locker room and argued the moment shouldn’t have been allowed to turn into a partisan sideshow — a point that could have been made without belittling the players who achieved something remarkable on the world stage. The women’s team, for their part, reportedly declined the State of the Union invitation and will instead schedule a White House celebration for a time that works for them, showing that dignity and discretion still exist outside the outrage industrial complex.
Megyn Kelly rightly called Rapinoe a hypocrite for rushing to lecture the men while her own record of weaponizing patriotism and national symbols for personal branding is well known to any honest observer. Kelly’s conservative audience sees this as more than a spat between athletes — it’s emblematic of a cultural elite that believes it can dictate who gets to be truly patriotic while remaining above criticism.
Hardworking Americans understand what real pride in country looks like: supporting our athletes, celebrating excellence, and rejecting the permanent outrage machine that turns every decent moment into a media feeding frenzy. If Megyn Kelly’s takedown teaches anything, it’s that the country is tired of performance politics pretending to be virtue; we want unity around our champions, not lectures from the coastal class that profits from division.
