Since the U.S. women’s national soccer team’s stirring defeat of England Tuesday afternoon, President Trump has tweeted about the Fourth of July, the Federal Reserve board, the Census, the Fourth of July (again), the economy and the military.

He has not said one word about the U.S. World Cup team.

The most prolific tweeter in Oval Office history has gone mute on a topic that should be right up his alley: the overwhelming overseas success of the red, white and blue, especially right before the Fourth of July.

Trump has always told us he loves winning, especially American winning. He craves U.S. dominance on the world stage. With one game to go, that’s exactly what the U.S. World Cup team is providing.

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Trump loves sports. He often tells us how much he loves women. He loves attaching himself to American greatness, even if he had nothing to do with it. He tweets all the time, about everything. And yet, not even one covfefe for the most beloved U.S. national team, men’s or women’s, in any sport?

What’s going on? Here’s my theory: Trump staked out the wrong position on this terrific team and its wildly popular star, Megan Rapinoe, and now he’s stuck.

A week ago, Trump decided to take on the fearless U.S. co-captain in an interview, then a rambling tweet-storm. Rapinoe, who is openly gay, has called herself a “walking protest” of Trump’s policies. At the World Cup, she has chosen to stand at attention with her hands clasped behind her and not sing the national anthem, and she has said quite graphically that she would turn down an invitation to go to the White House.

Trump could have brushed off those comments, as any other U.S. president would. He did not, instead telling The Hill website, quizzically, that Rapinoe’s ramrod-straight anthem posture was inappropriate. The war of words was on.

While Trump has supporters, Rapinoe does too, including teammate Ali Krieger, who boldly tweeted out that she stands with Rapinoe, telling Trump, “I know women who you cannot control or grope anger you.”

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It should also be noted that one of the most famous people in the nation at the moment, tea-sipping U.S. superstar Alex Morgan, has said that she too will not go to the Trump White House. My guess is those three are hardly alone on this close-knit team -- and they have plenty of company on various other winning sports teams since Trump took office, including a portion of the 2018 U.S. Olympic and Paralympic teams.

This bizarre story of a U.S. president carrying on a fight with a U.S. soccer player happened before the quarterfinal match with France, a doozy of a game won by the U.S. in which a significant segment of the Trump twitter-verse said it actually was rooting for France. So much for those Freedom Fries. Now they love France!

Then, presumably, Team Trump joined forces with England, and we know how that went.

So let Phil Mickelson and Aaron Rodgers and Kamala Harris and Jessica Chastain go ahead and tweet out their support of the USA, a team that tens of millions of Americans have fallen in love with, not just in blue states but red states too.

As for Trump and his fans, they apparently will continue to sulk in the corner. So far, they’re 0-for-2.