While honoring the U.S Women’s Soccer team in the East Room today – you know, the same unbelievable team that beat Japan 5-2 in the World Cup earlier this year, President Obama let it slipped that “playing like a girl means you’re a badass!”
After much applause and laughter, the president clarified that he probably shouldn’t have said it that way. He explained, “playing like a girl means being the best! It means drawing the largest TV audience for a soccer match — men or women’s — in American history. It means wearing our nation’s crest on your jersey, taking yourself and your country to the top of the world. That’s what American women do, that’s what American girls do — that’s why celebrate this team.”
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