‘Worth a thousand words’: Trump photo obscuring women’s tennis team sparks backlash
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/apr/23/trump-photo-georgia-tennis-white-house-women
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/apr/23/trump-photo-georgia-tennis-white-house-women
55 Comments
BigMacHole@thelemmy.club · 79 pts · 130d
There's NO way those Women COULD have Known that Donald "Grab them by the Pussy" "I wish Ghislaine Maxwell the best" Trump was a Misogynist!
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 130d
Lol the fact that they went to the white house shows how little some people take misogyny/bigotry seriously. I wouldn't let trump give me a high five let alone let him stand in front of me or even be in a picture with me. But NFL and NHL teams will be kissing his ass this summer.
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 130d
I'd let him stand in front of me. My future attorney would not be very happy with me if I said anything more.
MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 130d
You'd never be in the same room as him if you said anything more. And the fascist police would probably take you away for saying it.
swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 130d
But we're all thinking it.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 130d
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 130d
betterdead and Trump having a good time together.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 130d
Every time someone visits him after a win I lose ALL respect for them.
Like, the Entire US hockey team. Fuck them all. What a bunch of assholes.
FenrirIII@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 130d
They're from Georgia, likely already brainwashed by Conservatives
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 130d
Very likely
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 50 pts · 130d
He raped girls, Janice. What the fuck are you talking about making women stand in the back?
Don't worry guys, THIS is the thing that will be too far 🙄
charokol@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 129d
There have been lots of backlashes so far, but this is THE backlash
dan1101@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 130d
At least some of the blame is on them, did they expect good treatment from a narcissist misogynist pedophile rapist?
grumpusbumpus@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 130d
Is this a new photo? Who is willingly getting their photo taken with this shitstain and his cronies? If you're smiling in a photo with him at this point, you're complicit.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 130d
Anyone who wants anything from him. Which is a lot of people.
And anyone in his cult. But mostly it's the first ones getting their picture taken.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 130d
Like, how the fuck are there so many pieces of shit still buying Teslas - but there are millions of pieces of shit still buying them
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 129d
I would definitely take a selfie with trump...as his body swings from a noose.
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 129d
For the people who want to blame the women... Keep in mind, the women themselves probably felt they had no choice. Refusing would probably get thier scholarships revoked or some other form of retaliation. At the very least they we surely be flooded with death threats from maga followers all over the countrynif word got out. Some of them may have wanted to go, some may not. We don't really know. But if your thoughts are to blame them automatically, that's borderline victim shaming.
ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 129d
This picture features the champion 2025 Women's team and 4 of them were seniors so have since graduated and scholarship not an issue. Yet except for the one competing in Europe, the others are present and smiling like they're proud.
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 129d
I'm sorry I even mentioned a specific thing like scholarship. Seems to cause people to stop right there. They can be retaliated against in a lot of ways, even when they have left. And of course, you know the pciture hasn't been altered at all right? And you can see what they really feel from the picture too. If you want someone to be made at... focus on the guy in the center.
daannii@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 129d
They might have wanted to stand back away from his hands. I know I would.
sturmblast@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 128d
There is always a choice
FatVegan@leminal.space · 3 pts · 128d
Yeah no, i don't want to be on a photo with criminals and pedophiles, but thank you
Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 126d
Yes losing scholarships and everything you have ever worked to achieve in your entire life being for nothing.
That is an option. You are right!
We all hate this piece of shit (or at least I sure do) but demanding some innocent women that she should risk her entire livelihood to make a stand is fucking stupid. Why should any of them lose it all for something involving the pedophile? Were you going to donate to their go fund me when they lost everything from doing so?
Fuck all that. Take the photo and go home and don't let him ruin your life even worse than he is by running the country into the ground.
AmidFuror@fedia.io · 18 pts · 130d
Yeah, that claim would raise a few eyebrows from critical thinkers....
modus@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 129d
Guys, I'm beginning to think this guy doesn't respect women. Or anyone.
MrRandom@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 129d
that's OK, these women didn't respect themselves either.
modus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 129d
Good point. Anyone who indulges this narcissistic pedophile in a photo op has no self-respect.
Soup@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 129d
Honestly? Don’t care. If you’re agreeing to go there and get photos taken with him I am going to laugh at you when you get the expected treatment.
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 129d
Keep in mind, the women themselves probably felt they had no choice. Refusing would probably get thier scholarships revoked and such.
Though still I don't care either. We already know trump only cares about himself.
Soup@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 129d
At some point you gotta take a stand. People from the US always ready to make excuses why they can’t do something. It’s gotten so bad there, and here in Canada, too, honestly, and it’s like, what the fuck will get people to get off their asses at this point?
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 128d
I am fine with taking a stand, but point your hate at the guy front and center, not the women behind him you know nothing about. It's just a distraction technique.
Soup@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 128d
No. I mean, yes also, but holy fuck what will it take for you losers to finally start holding each other accountable? All they had to do was not go somewhere, it would have been incredibly easy, and the only reward they got from it is a terrible photo with a terrible person which only serves to further validate him and everything he does.
For fuck’s sake, I’m not asking them to shoot him in the back.
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 127d
You don't know it would be incredibly easy. You think it would be... but you don't know. I can give you any number of possible reasons it might not be easy, and in fact might be incredibly hard. I don't know any single one is true, but there are so many, and all you need is one to be true.
Soup@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 126d
Bro, the entire country is falling apart at the seams. Is there that little solidarity in the US that “go to the Whitehouse to be disrespected by the president” is seen as a life-or-death command?
Weak.
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 126d
Um, you know how die hard maga folks are. What if these women's parents are maga. No telling what they would do to their kid who refused to meet the president. This team was from Georgia after all. And maga followers have sent death threats for far less. The women don't have any security, getting death threats can be very traumatizing. That alone is probably enough of a reason to go if one didn't really want to.
TransNeko@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 128d
so you want me to show respect for a bunch of maga sluts? no thanks.
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 127d
Nope, I want you to leave them alone and spend your time disrepecting the person we know is an asshole. Like, where are the Epstien files.
Zak@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 130d
I'm a little surprised he's not trying to fuck them.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 29 pts · 130d
They are in university. Too old for him.
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 130d
He's trying to do it the only way he still can.
Drusas@fedia.io · 8 pts · 130d
That's even worse. I'll bet every American woman has experienced that particularly egregious misogynistic snub.
Raiderkev@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 129d
Who gives a single solitary fuck? Oh no, the fascist pedophile running the government is taking a bunch of space up in a photo with a bunch of other fascists, and some are women! Fuck em all.
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 129d
It's a fascist country, what did you expect?
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 1 pts · 129d
Name and shame. You shouldn't have accepted an invite to the home of a pedophile fascist. Just tell him to fuck off.
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 129d
Keep in mind, the women themselves probably felt they had no choice. Refusing would probably get thier scholarships revoked and some form of retaliation. Surely at least death threats from maga followers.
ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 129d
3 of them in this picture graduated and aren't on the team now, so the scholarship isn't an issue. Athletes from plenty of other teams have opted out of a Whitehouse visit. These ladies could've as well.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 129d
Fuck that. No-one would notice if they weren’t there.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · -5 pts · 129d
Bullshit
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 129d
Amazingly intelligent response. You know them personally?
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 129d
I bet he's Home Skoold and all.
aesthelete@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 129d
The maggots and the MAGA choir, everyone!
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 130d
Surely this
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · -2 pts · 129d
I'm not really concerned about the composition of a group photo of treasonous pedophiles. Those girls are lucky those guys didn't rape them all after the picture was taken.
Taleya@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 129d
Who says they didn't