Name: World Cup heroes Megan Rapinoe and Alex Morgan go to the White House after all (sorta)
Uploaded: 2019-07-12T09:58:22+00:00
Description: Megan Rapinoe and the USWNT may not be visiting the White House, but that didn't stop Jimmy Kimmel preparing a fake White House experience for them.

World Cup heroes Megan Rapinoe and Alex Morgan go to the White House after all (sorta)

"This is 5,000 chicken nuggets."

USWNT forward Megan Rapinoe famously stated that she's "not going to the fucking White House." A sentence which prompted Donald Trump to royally kick off on Twitter, saying in a CAPS-riddled statement: "Megan should WIN first before she TALKS!"

Well, winning is precisely what Rapinoe and the U.S. women's national soccer team did.

It's unlikely the team will be going anywhere near the White House judging by what Rapinoe said in a recent CNN interview. But Jimmy Kimmel didn't want them to be, uhhh, cheated out of the experience of visiting. So, they prepared "something special" for Alex Morgan and Rapinoe.

"This is 5,000 chicken nuggets and a couple of actors pretending to be secret service guys," said Kimmel.

Rachel Thompson

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Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.

A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.

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