{"id":421938,"date":"2023-04-05T05:43:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T05:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=421938"},"modified":"2023-04-05T05:43:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T05:43:31","slug":"angel-reese-laughs-off-jill-bidens-iowa-white-house-invitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/angel-reese-laughs-off-jill-bidens-iowa-white-house-invitation\/","title":{"rendered":"Angel Reese laughs off Jill Biden&#8217;s Iowa White House Invitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After her most recent remark questioning first lady Jill Biden&#8217;s invitation to the White House, Angel Reese, the standout women&#8217;s basketball player for the LSU Tigers, could be facing even more social media outrage.<\/p>\n<h2>Angel Reese laughs off Jill Biden&#8217;s Iowa White House Invitation<\/h2>\n<p>Champion trips to the White House are customary.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s NCAA tournament championship.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Angel Reese declines Jill Biden\u2019s invitation to the White House <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll go to the Obamas\u201d <\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IAMATHLETEpod?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IAMATHLETEpod<\/a> ) <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tJ8VZu04mO\">pic.twitter.com\/tJ8VZu04mO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBACentral (@TheDunkCentral) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheDunkCentral\/status\/1643442844122640384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Biden said Monday that she wishes to invite both LSU and the Iowa Hawkeyes.\u00a0A day after seeing Reese&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I know we\u2019ll have the champions come to the White House, we always do,&#8221; Biden, who was at American Airlines Center in Dallas to witness LSU&#8217;s win, said in Denver on Monday via ESPN. &#8220;So, we hope LSU will come. But, you know, I\u2019m going to tell Joe I think Iowa should come, too, because they played such a good game.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/Reese10Angel\/status\/1643024890813874179?s=20<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s invitation was informal, and when her press secretary recanted those remarks on Tuesday, it was practically revoked.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Angel Reese responds to Jill Biden saying she wanted to invite Iowa to White House with LSU \ud83d\ude05<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Reese10Angel?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Reese10Angel<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cJLG76Aesp\">pic.twitter.com\/cJLG76Aesp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BleacherReport\/status\/1643291357212033025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Reese quote tweeted the ESPN article with Biden\u2019s comments, and she clearly has her opinion on both the winner and loser going to the White House.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;A JOKE,&#8221;<\/strong> she wrote with three laughing emojis to preface the words.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s sports have advanced and this occasion is special.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Angel Reese won\u2019t commit to White House visit after Jill Biden\u2019s Iowa invite <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/evEKtj2itk\">https:\/\/t.co\/evEKtj2itk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J0ESdpajAS\">pic.twitter.com\/J0ESdpajAS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New York Post (@nypost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypost\/status\/1643407747407310849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It was so exciting, wasn&#8217;t it?&#8221; she said via ESPN. &#8220;It was such a great game. I&#8217;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&#8217;s sports have come today.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s words, Reese and colleague Alexis Morris proposed an alternative plan on Twitter: celebrating with Michelle Obama, the previous first lady.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It&#39;s disrespectful as hell for Jill Biden to invite a losing team to share spotlight they didn&#39;t earn with Angel Reese and LSU, who did earn theirs. How DaFUQ you gonna culturally appropriate a clear victory?<\/p>\n<p>That&#39;s y&#39;all&#39;s &quot;allies&quot; though.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Torraine Walker (@TorraineWalker) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TorraineWalker\/status\/1643257381986476034?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s standout Caitlin Clark on social media, sparking backlash and discussion about the backlash.<\/p>\n<p>Reese asked after the game why others didn&#8217;t receive the same kind of criticism that she has.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When a white woman from Iowa, Caitlin Clark taunts the other team during a game it\u2019s \u201cfunny\u201d and \u201cpart of competition\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>When a black woman from Louisiana, Angel Reese, decides to do it back, she\u2019s \u201cnot showing sportsmanship\u201d and \u201cdisgusting\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>If you ever needed an example of\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MuHMdO4Tsn\">pic.twitter.com\/MuHMdO4Tsn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/krassenstein\/status\/1642920135651475457?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;All year, I was critiqued about who I was,&#8221; Reese said. &#8220;The narrative \u2014 I don\u2019t fit the narrative. I don&#8217;t fit into the box that y\u2019all want me to be in. &#8216;I\u2019m too hood. I\u2019m too ghetto.&#8217; Y\u2019all told me that all year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;But when other people do it, y\u2019all don\u2019t say nothing. So this is for the girls that look like me, that\u2019s gonna speak on for what they believe in. It\u2019s unapologetically you. And that\u2019s what I did it for tonight.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ANGEL REESE TO CAITLIN CLARK \ud83d\ude33 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2NY0CEzwJ3\">pic.twitter.com\/2NY0CEzwJ3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SportsCenter\/status\/1642646161659154432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The idea that LSU would share a championship stage with its defeated title game opponent added fuel to the fire on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3xMpKngxqjk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE-\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/nba\/\">NBA \u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/nfl\/\">\u00a0NFL \u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/mlb\/\">MLB\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After her most recent remark questioning first lady Jill Biden&#8217;s invitation to the White House, Angel Reese, the standout women&#8217;s basketball player for the LSU Tigers, could be facing even more social media outrage. Angel Reese laughs off Jill Biden&#8217;s Iowa White House Invitation Champion trips to the White House are customary. 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