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Megan Rapinoe blames Trump for US Mens soccer team losing 'underdog' vibe in World Cup

Megan Rapinoe said President Donald Trump's involvement in the World Cup killed the U.S. men's team's underdog vibe and threw them off before the Belgium loss.

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Megan Rapinoe put blame on President Donald Trump for the U.S. mens soccer team's World Cup loss on Tuesday, saying the president's involvement killed the team's underdog vibe in the tournament.

"The Daily Show" host Desi Lydic asked Rapinoe about the red card given to U.S. player Folarin Balogun in their Round of 32 match, which was eventually suspended.

Trump admitted to calling FIFA President Gianni Infantino to ask for a review of the red card.

"How do you think that affected the men's team?" Lydic asked Rapinoe.

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Origin wording grade

Grade A reflects 4/100 framing risk from editorial voice; each finding below is tied to stored wording.

A 4/100 risk

Confidence: 80%
Format: opinion
Findings: 1
Method: origin-framing-v2

Outlet context is separate. right (+65, 60% confidence). This profile does not change the article grade.

Evidence behind the grade

Editorial voicebody

+4 · 68% confidence

And then, obviously, Belgium was like, 'No, we absolutely can't lose to this team now.'" Rapinoe, who won two World Cup titles with the women's national soccer team, said she didn't know the rules and wasn't a referee.

The sentence states an evaluation in the narrator's voice instead of attributing it to a named source. The cue appears in attributed or quoted language, so its score is reduced.

Useful context, not penalties

Opinion format Argumentative wording is expected in this format, so narrator-voice and decision-pressure cues receive reduced weight.
Attributed claims Attribution helps readers distinguish a source's claim from the article narrator's own assertion.
Uncertainty qualifiers Qualifiers such as may, might, or reportedly are disclosed as technique but do not add framing-risk points by themselves.
Attributed framing cues Attributed or quoted cues remain visible, but their score contribution is reduced to avoid assigning a speaker's wording to the reporter.

What this grade does and does not mean

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The outlet's general profile is separate context and does not affect this article grade.
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