Coleen Rooney has revealed an awkward run-in with Donald Trump during her family's time in the United States, recalling a comment that left her parents unimpressed and prompted Arsenal legend Ian Wright to brand the President a "freak."
Wayne Rooney moved to MLS side D.C. United in 2018 after a storied career at Everton and Manchester United, before later managing Derby County and returning to the US in 2022.
According to The Mirror, it was during that first stint that Coleen and the couple's four sons crossed paths with Trump at a White House Christmas event, an encounter she still remembers vividly for all the wrong reasons.
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Speaking on Stick to Football, Coleen explained the moment that soured the meeting before it had really begun. "Well, my dad, he didn't like what he said," she recalled.
"So, when I came in, he said to his son, ‘See, I told you all the soccer players get the good-looking girls’. When I’ve come out, I’ve told my mum, she was like ‘Ergh’."
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The comment was enough to trigger a visibly unimpressed reaction from Wright, sat alongside Gary Neville, Jamie Carragher, Jill Scott and Roy Keane, who muttered his disapproval and called Trump a "freak" in response. Coleen added that the whole event itself was a strange experience, with her children ending up eating chicken nuggets on the floor beneath the tables.
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The story didn't end there either, with Coleen revealing how her youngest son Cass, now six, later brought the meeting up at school following Trump's re-election.
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"My youngest, obviously, when Trump's been voted back in, they watch the news at school - he's six," she said. "So, he comes home and says, 'I told the teacher that I've met Trump - she's told me to send a photo in.' I'm thinking she doesn't believe him." Cass duly sent proof in, much to his teacher's surprise, with Jill Scott adding that she "definitely didn't believe him."