Soccer Star’s Wife Slams ‘Dirty Bastard’ Trump Over White House Comment To Her

Coleen Rooney, the wife of English former national soccer team and Manchester United star Wayne Rooney, has revealed on a reality TV show that she once dubbed President-elect Donald Trump a “dirty bastard” for a comment he made to her during a visit to the White House.
Rooney, during footage that aired on ITV’s Australian jungle-based “Survivor”-style “I’m A Celebrity” show this weekend, recalled meeting then-President Trump in December 2018 when her husband was playing for MLS team D.C. United.
“When we lived in America, we were invited to the White House for Christmas and we went in to meet … so it was Donald Trump,” Rooney told campmates.
She continued, “So we walked in and we got to get the official photograph taken in front of the Christmas tree and stuff. So Donald Trump said to his son, ‘See? Told ya, all the soccer players get the good-looking girls.’ And I told my mum. I was like, ‘Dirty bastard.’”
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Rooney, who the following year was involved in the so-called “Wagatha Christie” legal drama over allegations she made about fake stories being sold to a tabloid newspaper, said Trump wanted her husband, who now manages EFL Championship team Plymouth Argyle, to teach his son, then 12-year-old Barron Trump, and reportedly a keen footballer, out on the pitch.
When asked by another campmate if Trump is “that orange,” Rooney said: “He was very orange.”