Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - Trump Saves Iranian Women’s Soccer Players & The Truth About Women’s History Month ｜ The Riley Gaines Show

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00:03:41.040 Happy March.

00:03:42.000 If you did not know that March is Women's History Month, then now you do.

00:03:46.000 I'll be totally honest with you.

00:03:47.760 I don't really like the idea of having Women's History Month, 1.00

00:03:52.480 because I just don't really like identity politics.

00:03:54.800 I don't think we should have a month dedicated to any demographic,

00:03:58.640 meaning I don't think we should have Black History Month.

00:04:01.120 I don't think we should have White History Month. 1.00

00:04:02.560 I don't think we should have Men's History Month or Women's History Month. 0.85

00:04:05.600 Of course, I don't think we should have the month of pride to recognize and celebrate

00:04:09.840 and honor people for who they like to sleep with or what they identify as.

00:04:15.120 I think that's honestly a disgrace, especially when we don't have an entire month to honor veterans.

00:04:20.960 I think if we were to engage in this sort of thing where we have months dedicated to people,

00:04:27.840 I think veterans would be one that is worthy of that.

00:04:32.720 So all that to say, don't really like identity politics.

00:04:37.680 Pertaining to Women's History Month, are there women who have done incredible things?

00:04:42.320 Absolutely. Women who have changed the world for the better? 1.00

00:04:45.280 Women who have accomplished the unimaginable? 0.99

00:04:48.880 Absolutely, yes, of course.

00:04:50.000 And do I believe they deserve to be celebrated and honored and recognized?

00:04:54.480 Yes, but not because they are a woman. I think we should celebrate them based on their achievements. 1.00

00:05:01.520 I think I just have a very merit-based approach to life.

00:05:05.600 But if we are going to have a Women's History Month, which we do,

00:05:09.600 then we should celebrate it properly by celebrating the accomplishments of women. 0.97

00:05:15.680 And the only problem with that is we seemingly have an entire political party who doesn't know

00:05:21.040 what a woman is, which is just incredible to me, even still considering that this is the same

00:05:27.440 political party who claim to be fierce defenders of women's rights.

00:05:32.080 I find myself sitting and marveling in the fact that we have so many people

00:05:37.440 people serving in elected roles with mush for brains at every level, by the way, local, state, and federal.

00:05:45.600 These people used International Women's Day, which was March 8th, so this past Sunday,

00:05:52.160 as like a matter of convenience and opportunity to virtue signal and to reinforce to their followers

00:05:59.120 online that they're on the right side of history. I saw some of these tweets that I'm about to show you

00:06:05.600 online, so you do too. Here's a post made by Delaware's Democratic Party on Facebook.

00:06:13.520 They've got a Happy International Women's Day graphic. And who is that? You notice the center photo,

00:06:20.640 the top row, none other than Congressman Tim, who goes by Sarah McBride. A man, they really just can't

00:06:30.240 help themselves. They had, I guess in this graphic, nine opportunities to showcase a woman.

00:06:37.200 And they use up one of those to highlight a man. And honestly, I don't think it would have mattered

00:06:42.880 if the graphic had three spaces or even if it just had one. I truthfully believe that the Democratic Party

00:06:49.600 of Delaware, whatever this page was, would have posted Tim McBride as like their sole woman to honor 0.71

00:06:56.640 for International Women's Day. Here's one I saw posted on Instagram by Planned Parenthood.

00:07:04.080 It says, celebrating all, in italics, my sisters today. Not just my sisters. With that sisters being

00:07:13.520 spelled C-I-S-T-E-R-S. I hope you're watching on youtube.com, then you'll see. It's a play on words.

00:07:21.520 I will say I'm not overly surprised that Planned Parenthood posted this. The organization that

00:07:27.760 terminates human life, the billion dollar industry that profits off of women's vulnerability, 0.99

00:07:35.120 exploits trauma and pain. A business, by the way, that was created as a way to exterminate

00:07:42.240 black people. You guys know that. Y'all are ready for that conversation. I encourage you to look up 1.00

00:07:47.760 Margaret Sanger, if you don't know who she is, and her association with early 20th century

00:07:54.080 eugenics, how she wanted to limit reproduction among people considered unfit. Again, not ready

00:08:01.840 for that conversation. So yeah, not surprised that Planned Parenthood bothered to mention women

00:08:08.240 as like an afterthought on International Women's Day while they're really celebrating the men. But I will 0.93

00:08:14.400 say the play on words, it was pretty good. Like it was terrible, but it was pretty good. You almost

00:08:19.360 have to respect it. Let's check in with the women of New York City on this International Women's Day. 1.00

00:08:26.080 See how they're doing. Watch here.

00:08:27.600 And now I invite you to scream!

00:08:40.720 It's okay to scream! You are allowed to be loud! You are allowed to have a voice and you women need it! 1.00

00:08:46.480 All I have to say after watching that is reopen the asylums. MAGA. Make asylums great. Again, 1.00

00:08:57.520 the full video that I saw online was a minute and a half long of screeching and screaming like banshees,

00:09:05.840 which is totally unproductive. I am all for a cathartic moment, which I do believe

00:09:14.240 this is cathartic, or at least getting your anger and your frustrations and your emotions out

00:09:19.600 in a cathartic way. Like I think that's a good release. What I'm not going to do is sit and scream.

00:09:26.000 I can maybe understand the intention behind it, but I don't understand it when you're gathered in a

00:09:33.040 big circle in the middle of New York City to do such, right? Like it feels very performative.

00:09:39.520 And again, just totally unproductive. How about do something constructive and useful and beneficial

00:09:46.720 with your time? Beneficial for yourself or maybe for society at large? Even if you're mad about a

00:09:53.600 social or cultural issue such as living in the patriarchy, living in the super oppressive

00:10:02.800 city of New York City, which is one of the most liberal and diverse cities in the entire United

00:10:10.240 States, if you really believe that, then do something useful or meaningful with your time.

00:10:18.240 Because screaming into the void as they're doing publicly in cohesion together, it's utterly useless.

00:10:28.160 It's kind of fun and easy, truthfully, to like poke fun at these raging, screaming liberals. But 0.59

00:10:37.360 really, it's actually heartbreaking. It's pretty sad because I think it's very clear to see that these

00:10:44.160 people, the women in the circle, the they, thems, or the men in these circles even, like,

00:10:50.720 they just seem to be miserable. And I think in trying to deduce as to why they are miserable,

00:10:56.640 especially the women, I think it's because our society, Western culture, at least since the 0.65

00:11:04.480 60s, I would say, have sold women this lie. This lie that in order to be happy, they have to be more

00:11:13.040 like men, right? Like ditch the traditional feminine roles, like being a stay-at-home mom, 0.95

00:11:19.680 or having children and raising those children, things that women are really genetically encoded 1.00

00:11:27.360 to desire. I think ultimately, that's a large part of what has left these women feeling lonely and

00:11:34.880 bitter and very clearly angry. And that poor dog that's with the girl. If you're watching on youtube.com,

00:11:43.120 which I hope you are, then you saw the woman that was screaming into the microphone, she's like 0.98

00:11:50.160 screaming into her dog's ears. It's gotta be like some form of animal abuse. Watching that is like

00:11:58.560 watching a load of toddlers have a tantrum, which I bet these women wouldn't go to an Islamic country 1.00

00:12:08.560 and throw a tantrum like that. Countries like Afghanistan, or Iran, or Somalia, or Yemen, or

00:12:16.160 Sudan, or Saudi Arabia, or Pakistan. And if they did, maybe they would then have a greater understanding

00:12:24.880 of how fortunate we are as women to live in the United States of America, which let's talk about 0.97

00:12:32.000 that. Let's talk about the threats that exist for women, especially if you stand up to an oppressive 1.00

00:12:40.960 regime, like most Islamic regimes. Last week, the Iranian women's national football team, so think 0.66

00:12:47.040 American soccer, refused to sing the national anthem of the Islamic regime at the opening match of the

00:12:52.960 Asian Cup. So in front of the entire world, they chose to participate in a form of protest.

00:13:02.560 It was such a powerful act of defiance amid these escalating tensions in the Middle East. I've got

00:13:11.040 it playing on the screen here again, if you're watching at youtube.com. You see the women, the soccer

00:13:18.080 players, or football players, they're standing there silently. They're wearing their compulsory hijabs, 1.00

00:13:26.000 they have to wear them. These players, for not participating or singing their form of national

00:13:32.080 anthem, they were immediately labeled as traitors and enemies of the state by Iranian state television.

00:13:40.320 Actually, commentator Muhammad Reza Shabazi declared that anyone who takes a step against the country under

00:13:49.920 war conditions must be dealt with more severely, even going as far to say that their silence was the

00:13:56.480 height of shamelessness and betrayal. And you just have to imagine that these women, they knew that they

00:14:04.720 weren't just putting themselves in harm's way, but also their family members were being put in grave

00:14:11.040 danger by their acts of defiance. They know that if they go back home, they face almost certain, well,

00:14:20.320 actually certain persecution, almost certain execution.

00:14:24.560 Because the tournament was in Australia, the Iranian women's soccer players made it very clear that they

00:14:33.040 were attempting to seek asylum in Australia. The Australian government inexplicably dragged their

00:14:39.040 feet on saving these girls really right up until the last possible second, where five girls ended up 1.00

00:14:45.040 escaping and claiming asylum. Once again, I think important to mention here, we have President Trump

00:14:52.400 making impact on a global stage. I really don't believe that the Australian government would have

00:14:59.280 operated like this had President Trump not put this out on Truth Social saying, Australia is making

00:15:06.720 a terrible humanitarian mistake by allowing the Iran national women's soccer team to be forced back

00:15:11.200 to Iran, where they will most likely be killed. Don't do it, Mr. Prime Minister, give asylum. The US will 1.00

00:15:17.040 take them if you want. Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump.

00:15:22.800 Here's a photo on screen of the five players from Iran's women's national team. These women,

00:15:30.320 by the way, for a little context, they had to flee their hotel, escape their hotel in Australia,

00:15:37.360 immediately seek police protection to be granted asylum and a visa. And what do you notice about this

00:15:45.360 picture on screen?

00:15:48.080 Which I will say the first thing that I noticed was that these women are no longer wearing their hijab. 1.00

00:15:55.120 They're showing their beautiful hair.

00:15:58.080 And look at their faces, the smiles on their face. They look like they've been returned to life.

00:16:06.480 They have a natural smile, joy that is radiating from their innocent faces. And like I said,

00:16:13.120 I really don't think this would have happened without President Trump. I wish the whole women's soccer

00:16:21.040 team could have been saved. And there's no telling, truthfully. I hate to be morbid or dark, but there's

00:16:28.480 no telling what happens to the rest of that Iranian women's national team once they get back to Iran.

00:16:37.120 They've been labeled by their entire state media as unforgivable wartime traitors.

00:16:43.200 They're not going to be welcomed back with open arms. And so my thoughts on this is number one,

00:16:50.960 we live in the freest nation in the entire world. And I am so incredibly grateful and proud to be an

00:16:57.680 American where because of our brave service members, you can go to New York City if you want to and stand

00:17:04.400 in a circle and scream about the patriarchy or scream about our president that you call a dictator or our

00:17:10.720 government. And guess what? You're never going to face political persecution for it. I might call you

00:17:17.600 stupid for it, but that's the beauty of living in America is I got to call you stupid for your stupid 1.00

00:17:24.560 actions. But guess what? You get to carry out your stupid actions freely. Secondly, President Trump is 1.00

00:17:32.960 very clearly an advocate for women's rights. He is labeled as a misogynist all the time.

00:17:41.200 He's the worst misogynist ever. Think of all the women he has in his cabinet. First and foremost, 0.99

00:17:47.600 he has, well, he had Kristi Noem. He's got Tulsi Gabbard. He's got Brooke Rollins, the Secretary of Ag.

00:17:53.920 He's got Kelly Loeffler. Of course, Caroline Levitt is his press secretary, his chief of staff.

00:18:00.400 Susie Wiles is a woman. He cares deeply about women and our rights, our rights to safety,

00:18:07.040 our rights to privacy, our rights to equal opportunity. Do not let the other side convince

00:18:13.520 you of otherwise. President Trump is the one standing up for those women, not the self-proclaimed

00:18:20.800 feminist. No, not Jane Fonda or Angelina Jolie or Greta Thunberg or Natalie Portman or Sue Bird or

00:18:30.080 Megan Rapinoe or the United Nations. It's been crickets from all of those people, which this would

00:18:38.080 have been a perfect opportunity for someone like Megan Rapinoe to weigh in. She's a female. She is an 1.00

00:18:45.280 athlete and she claims to be a feminist. We could have actually agreed on something for once, 1.00

00:18:51.360 but she's either too much of a coward or too just ideologically captured to care about these Iranian 0.95

00:19:00.080 women, which I have a feeling it's both. Someone like JK Rowling, on the other hand, 0.71

00:19:07.680 uh, that's a real feminist. And she has been consistently over the years, not necessarily. 1.00

00:19:15.040 Actually, I don't think she's conservative at all. She doesn't label herself as a Republican.

00:19:20.400 Granted, she doesn't live in the United States, but, but I digress. I think she's pretty progressive

00:19:25.200 on a lot of issues, but she has consistently and persistently used her platform, which on X,

00:19:33.200 by the way, I was looking earlier today, she has almost 14 million followers that she has consistently 0.75

00:19:39.760 used her platform to advocate for women and our rights, not just the rights to abort or terminate

00:19:47.680 life, uh, abort a developing child in the womb, but our rights, uh, across the board. She posted this

00:19:55.200 on X, uh, about this situation saying, please protect these young women and tagged, you know, 0.64

00:20:00.960 the necessary FIFA, FIFA and football or soccer associations, uh, that could ultimately help.

00:20:07.280 And so I guess I encourage you guys to say a prayer, say a prayer for these women, uh, who were forced

00:20:15.120 to go back to Iran and their families, actually, uh, even the girls who got to seek asylum in Australia,

00:20:21.360 pray for their families because, uh, the Islamic regime, maybe they can't get to them any longer, 0.91

00:20:27.520 but it's a high probability that they will go for the people closest to them as retaliation.

00:20:33.280 So, uh, pray for these young girls, pray for their loved ones, pray for protection.

00:20:39.120 Uh, I pray for safety, uh, and I pray for freedom. And of course I pray that they seek

00:20:44.240 Jesus Christ. Uh, before we wrap up to today's episode, there's one ad I wanted to show you guys that

00:20:52.960 went viral for international women's day. And it is an ad done by none other than XXXY athletics,

00:21:00.560 uh, which is the only athletic wear brand that unapologetically states that women's sports are 0.92

00:21:07.040 only for women. I know novel concept. They have had so many viral ads over the past few years. Like 1.00

00:21:13.200 I'm talking millions and millions and millions of views and impressions and people viewing their clips,

00:21:19.520 but it's a small business. They don't have a lot of money to spend in commercials on TV.

00:21:24.240 And so I wanted to show this ad that they did on an international women's day here. Let's watch it. 0.94

00:21:49.520 So

00:22:10.160 It's a masterpiece. That ad is so well done. Now, obviously the editing and the clipping and

00:22:32.460 the visual of it, but I think more importantly, the subtle message behind it. If you watch it,

00:22:38.640 you see the frustration and the pain and the betrayal. That was the feeling that was conveyed

00:22:45.220 to me, the look of betrayal on these women's faces after being beaten or injured or having

00:22:52.580 lost opportunities to a man in their sport. If you look at their faces, even look at the women's 1.00

00:22:59.180 body language in these clips, it kind of forces, even those who are willingly blind, it forces you

00:23:08.280 to ask the question of, you know, what about her? Because all the time in this conversation,

00:23:15.280 we're told to be compassionate and be kind and be empathetic and be inclusive. And those are all

00:23:22.100 wonderful things in their true nature. But the amazing thing about this ad is that you realize

00:23:29.060 that what has been allowed for the past, I mean, few years, really, it's been going on much longer

00:23:34.000 than most people realize. It's none of those things. It's not compassionate to ask young

00:23:40.780 girls to undress in front of men. That's not what compassion is. And it's not inclusive to ask women 1.00

00:23:47.120 to step aside and allow these men on top of our podiums. No, really, that's exclusive. And you're

00:23:54.180 excluding women, which is who the women's sporting category was created to protect and to celebrate and

00:24:02.780 to honor as the intention behind international women's day and women's history month. And so

00:24:09.980 you guys should treat yourself to an XXXY athletics shirt or, or maybe gift one to your husband or

00:24:19.220 someone, you know, in your life who wants to wear the truth loudly and proudly. You can check them out

00:24:24.540 at XXXY athletics.com or the truth fits.com, not a plug, not sponsored. I just really, really believe

00:24:31.020 in their mission. And they give back a part of their proceeds and profits go to initiatives created

00:24:38.900 to protect women's sports. So highly recommend checking them out. And I'll just thank them one 1.00

00:24:44.440 more time for forcing people to look at her. That was the message behind the ad. Look at her, 1.00

00:24:49.740 uh, the girl who trained and the girl who sacrificed and the girl who ultimately lost her place because

00:24:57.920 those are the girls that we are fighting for. Uh, last thing in signing off on today's episode,

00:25:06.800 uh, international women's day, actually, like I said, it was March 8th. So this past Sunday,

00:25:12.280 uh, which was also daylight savings. So I had this revelation, uh, that the only day of the entire

00:25:21.140 year that is like technically 23 hours is the day that they dedicate to women. It's gotta be the 1.00

00:25:28.240 patriarchy. See you guys next episode. 0.94

Gaines for Girls with Riley Gaines - March 11, 2026

Trump Saves Iranian Women’s Soccer Players & The Truth About Women’s History Month ｜ The Riley Gaines Show

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