Angel Reese laughs off Jill Biden’s Iowa White House Invitation

After her most recent remark questioning first lady Jill Biden’s invitation to the White House, Angel Reese, the standout women’s basketball player for the LSU Tigers, could be facing even more social media outrage.

Angel Reese laughs off Jill Biden’s Iowa White House Invitation

Champion trips to the White House are customary.

Iowa is not the best. LSU is. Angel Reese was not interested when First Lady Jill Biden offered on Monday that the White House welcome both teams from Sunday’s NCAA tournament championship.

Biden said Monday that she wishes to invite both LSU and the Iowa Hawkeyes. A day after seeing Reese’s LSU team defeat Iowa 102-85 in Dallas to win the national title, Biden proposed the notion at a speech in Denver. Hillary promised her Denver fans that she would discuss the matter with President Joe Biden.

“I know we’ll have the champions come to the White House, we always do,” Biden, who was at American Airlines Center in Dallas to witness LSU’s win, said in Denver on Monday via ESPN. “So, we hope LSU will come. But, you know, I’m going to tell Joe I think Iowa should come, too, because they played such a good game.”

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Champion trips to the White House used to be expected. Under the Donald Trump administration and the start of the COVID-19 epidemic, that dynamic altered. If LSU will go to the Biden White House is unknown. The First Lady’s invitation was informal, and when her press secretary recanted those remarks on Tuesday, it was practically revoked.

Reese quote tweeted the ESPN article with Biden’s comments, and she clearly has her opinion on both the winner and loser going to the White House.

“A JOKE,” she wrote with three laughing emojis to preface the words.

The losing team of a championship is not often invited to the White House, but Biden thinks that since Title IX was implemented in 1972, women’s sports have advanced and this occasion is special.

“It was so exciting, wasn’t it?” she said via ESPN. “It was such a great game. I’m old enough that I remember when we got Title IX. We fought so hard, right? We fought so hard. And look at where women’s sports have come today.”

Kim Mulkey, the head coach of LSU, said to the media following the game that she would accept an offer if one were issued. After the First Lady’s words, Reese and colleague Alexis Morris proposed an alternative plan on Twitter: celebrating with Michelle Obama, the previous first lady.

After the game on Sunday, Reese has continued to make news for reasons other than her MOP performance. After the game, she made fun of Iowa’s standout Caitlin Clark on social media, sparking backlash and discussion about the backlash.

Reese asked after the game why others didn’t receive the same kind of criticism that she has.

“All year, I was critiqued about who I was,” Reese said. “The narrative — I don’t fit the narrative. I don’t fit into the box that y’all want me to be in. ‘I’m too hood. I’m too ghetto.’ Y’all told me that all year.

“But when other people do it, y’all don’t say nothing. So this is for the girls that look like me, that’s gonna speak on for what they believe in. It’s unapologetically you. And that’s what I did it for tonight.”

The idea that LSU would share a championship stage with its defeated title game opponent added fuel to the fire on Monday.

 

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