Angel Reese woke up speechless after Donald Trump’s election victory over Kamala Harris on Tuesday evening.
“I’m so disappointed in America,” the Chicago Sky star wrote on X. “Some of you just couldn’t selfishly put your pride aside huh?!?!?”
Reese’s specific issues with Trump were not explained in her posts, other than to indicate that she disagrees with the president-elect’s hand in restricting reproductive rights during his first term in the Oval Office. Trump nominated conservative Supreme Court justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett between 2017 and 2020, leading to the 2022 Dobbs ruling, which gave states the power to regulate abortions.
“As a woman, I am heartbroken for all of us,” the 22-year-old wrote online.
Reese ended her post on a more positive note Tuesday morning.
Angel Reese attends a finals game between the Minnesota Lynx and the New York Liberty
Angel Reese said she is “heartbroken” for all women following Donald Trump’s election victory
“God is the best author and the best finisher,” she wrote. “I’m just going to pray about this and think positive.”
The WNBA is coming off a wildly successful 2024 season, but it wasn’t long ago that the league was known more for its “relentless activism,” as Harper’s Bazaar put it, than for actual basketball. Reese’s rivalry with Caitlin Clark, as well as the exciting WNBA Finals between the Las Vegas Aces and champion New York Liberty, changed that this summer.
But as Trump returns to the White House and America moves in a more conservative direction, WNBA players may once again embrace protest.
Particularly in 2020, players rallied behind the Black Lives Matter movement and took a stand against Atlanta Dream co-owner and Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler, who has since sold her stake in the team and lost a re-election campaign.
“I stand firmly against the political movement Black Lives Matter, which has advocated defunding the police, called for the removal of Jesus from churches and the disruption of the nuclear family structure, which has fostered anti-Semitic views and violence and destruction across has promoted around the world. country,” Loeffler wrote in 2020.
Dream players arrived at the team’s next game wearing shirts that read “Vote Warnock.”
Perhaps as a result, the Rev. Raphael Warnock enjoyed a rapid rise in popularity before bailing out in the special election.