Seattle, Washington - USWNT legend Megan Rapinoe brushed off Donald Trump's criticism in a recent interview, saying she'd take the penalty that contribute to her team's early elimination from the World Cup again.

"I would take that one again," Rapinoe told the Atlantic, referring to her missed effort in the dramatic penalty shootout against Sweden.

"For a long time, I have thought about missing one in a really big moment. What are you going to do? The only other thing you could do is to not take one. I'm not going to do that. I would rather step up and be in that moment. And I think that's something that made the criticism after that loss particularly fake and disingenuous and absurd and outrageous to me. It's like, you're going to bash on me for getting out there and trying my best?"

Rapinoe has announced she will retire at the end of the NWSL season. That missed shot might have been the last time we see the 38-year-old representing the US, but it certainly won't taint a Hall of Fame career that included more than 200 appearances, 63 goals, and two World Cup titles and a World Cup Golden Boot.

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That didn't stop Donald Trump from rubbing it in on social media soon after the US made its earliest exit from a World Cup in a post that seemed to have more to do with the politics of Rapinoe and her teammates than soccer.

"The 'shocking and totally unexpected' loss by the US Women's Soccer Team to Sweden is fully emblematic of what is happening to the our once great Nation under Crooked Joe Biden," wrote Trump, who also butted heads with Rapinoe during the team's World Cup championship run in 2019.

"Many of our players were openly hostile to America — No other country behaved in such a manner, or even close. WOKE EQUALS FAILURE. Nice shot Megan, the USA is going to Hell!!!"

In the Atlantic interview, Rapinoe said Trump's post was "a compilation of hit words and hot-button words that don't actually make any sort of sense or square with reality at all." She lumped it in with much of the criticism she and her teammates received throughout the World Cup, including from Fox Sports analyst Alexi Lalas and former US player Carli Lloyd.

"I think, just in general, the way that our team was spoken about over the course of the tournament, it was fake," Rapinoe said.

"And it didn't make sense to me. In 2019, we were ultra-confident, ultra-swaggy — and won everything. And even though we won, we did it in bad taste, according to our critics. This time, we weren't confident enough, and we don't have the right 'mentality.' And so we lost. It's just so disingenuous. There's no way for us to win, and there's no way for us to lose."

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Rapinoe, who was a leading figure in the US women's successful fight against their own federation for equal pay and working conditions, also weighed in on the actions of Spain soccer federation president Luis Rubiales, who has apologized for kissing player Jenni Hermoso on the lips during the medal presentation after Spain defeated England in Sunday's World Cup final.

"What kind of upside-down world are we in?" Rapinoe said. "On the biggest stage, where you should be celebrating, Jenni has to be physically assaulted by this guy."

She said later in the interview: "What I've realized for a long time is that we're playing two games at the same time. One, we're playing all against each other. And then the other one, we're all playing together to win equality and progress and what we deserve."