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Topics: MLS, DC United, Donald Trump, Football, Major League Soccer
Ben McCrum
Topics: MLS, DC United, Donald Trump, Football, Major League Soccer
A top MLS side were forced to quickly delete a social media post celebrating their latest win with a brutal dig at Donald Trump.
On Sunday night, Major League Soccer team San Jose Earthquakes embarrassed DC United with a 6-1 home win that took them up to eighth in the Western Conference.
Immediately after the win, the American side took to their social media accounts to celebrate the massive result, aiming a dig at President Trump in the process.
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However, the joke was met with backlash from fans who claimed that the social media admin had taken things too far, leading to the post being swiftly taken down.
Celebrating the impressive result, the San Jose Earthquakes X account made a joke linking Sunday's date (April 6) to the infamous attack on the US Capitol building on January 6, 2021.
Posting on X, the account wrote: "Another L for D.C. on the 6th."
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However, just hours after publishing the post, it appears that the San Jose Earthquakes account have deleted it, replacing it with a different, less political, post.
January 6 2021 saw an estimated 2,000–2,500 Trump supporters enter the historic US Capitol building in Washington DC in protest to Joe Biden winning the Presidential election in November 2020.
Over 1,500 people were federally charged as a result of the events, but many of them were later pardoned by Trump when he came into office for the second time in January this year.
Trump's order included pardons for Enrique Tarrio, the former chairman of American far-right organisation Proud Boys, and Stewart Rhodes, former leader of another far right group called the Oath Keepers.
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San Jose and DC United two of MLS' most historic clubs having faced each other in the first game in league history on April 6, 1996, which San Jose also won 1-0.
Since then, San Jose have won two MLS Cups, in 2001 and 2003 with the help of US football great Landon Donovan.
However, more recently the Earthquakes have struggled, finishing at the bottom of the Western Conference table last season with just 21 points, 26 points away from making the finals play-offs.
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