All posts tagged "Sophie Cunningham"

Lara Trump unleashed a rant about the WNBA on Wednesday, complaining the league wasn't doing enough for its MAGA-friendly star.

Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham has become a conservative hero for voicing her opposition to transgender athletes playing in women's sports, The Daily Beast reported.

Eric Trump's wife — daughter-in-law of President Donald Trump — has now entered the public chatter about it. And during an episode of her podcast "The Right View with Lara Trump," she attacked the athletes....

Trump ally and Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier was furious after "MAGA darling" Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham was fouled by Chicago Sky’s DiJonai Carrington — and dropped a legal threat he couldn't actually pursue.

Uthmeier was responding to the WNBA game in Chicago where Cunningham went up for a layup when Carrington hit the Fever player with her arm, The Daily Beast reported on Monday. He argued that he would have charged Carrington with "assault and battery."

Carrington ended up getting ejected from the game....

A WNBA star recently held up by the Trump administration has a MAGA-friendly social media account, according to a new report.

MeidasTouch News reported that the TikTok account of Sophie Cunningham suggests support for Trump's politics when it comes to immigration, national identity, and political expression by athletes. The Trump administration recently used Cunningham's statements against transgender athletes playing in women's sports to advance its own policy agenda.

Cunningham's official TikTok account reposted a video in December by @matrixunni, a creator with MAGA social and cultural commentary, MeidasTouch News reported. In the video, the creator says that immigrants who enter the country illegally should not expect sympathy if immigration enforcement separates their families....

The Trump administration is using WNBA star Sophie Cunningham's statement that transgender athletes should not play in women's sports to boost their own policy agenda, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed to reporters during a press briefing that President Donald Trump was "following" the coverage around the Indiana Fever player's comments from an ESPN interview this week, according to The Post.

Trump has made his stance on the issue clear and "moved swiftly last year to roll back transgender policies implemented by the Biden administration, including issuing an executive order that aimed to ban transgender athletes from competing on girls’ and women’s sports teams," The Post reported....