{"id":743800,"date":"2026-07-05T02:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T02:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/743800\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T02:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T02:04:12","slug":"sophie-cunningham-responds-to-trump-admin-using-her-now-famous-viral-finger-pointing-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/743800\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Cunningham responds to Trump admin using her now-famous viral finger-pointing meme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WNBA star Sophie Cunningham has seemingly given President Donald Trump<\/a> her blessing to use now-famous images of her pointing her finger at another player.<\/p>\n

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\"Indiana <\/p>\n

Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham points at Phoenix Mercury forward-guard DeWanna Bonner after an argument during a game at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis on June 22, 2026. The Indiana Fever defeated the Phoenix Mercury 86-77. (USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect)<\/p>\n

Photos and videos of Cunningham pointing her finger at Phoenix Mercury player<\/a> DeWanna Bonner during a game at the end of June exploded across the internet, becoming one of the most viral sports memes of 2026. The White House made its own social media post on June 30 referencing the meme, sharing a clip of Cunningham addressing the point on her podcast last week and adding a famous video of Trump himself pointing at the camera during the 2024 campaign.<\/p>\n

Cunningham shared her thoughts on the White House’s post while speaking to reporters on Friday.<\/p>\n

\"Indiana <\/p>\n

Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham points at Phoenix Mercury forward-guard DeWanna Bonner after an argument during a game at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis on June 22, 2026. The Indiana Fever defeated the Phoenix Mercury 86-77. (USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect)<\/p>\n

“I think everyone around the world is posting it,” Cunningham said when asked about the White House’s post.<\/p>\n

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“Every company has done it. So I don’t really think twice about it. I just think they’re another group posting about it.”<\/p>\n

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\"Sophie <\/p>\n

An Indianapolis man was charged with allegedly stalking Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham and threatening a Pacers security executive who intervened. (Michael Hickey\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Cunningham said on her podcast that her technical foul she got for the pointing gesture during the game against the Mercury<\/a> was “the weakest thing I\u2019ve ever seen in my life” and explaining that she “didn\u2019t say a word” while “all I was doing was literally pointing.”<\/p>\n

“I couldn’t help myself. I could not. She was losing her s— and all I was doing was literally pointing,” Cunningham said.<\/p>\n

Jackson Thompson is a sports reporter for Fox News Digital covering critical political and cultural issues in sports, with an investigative lens. Jackson’s reporting has been cited in federal government actions related to the enforcement of Title IX, and in legacy media outlets including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Associated Press and ESPN.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WNBA star Sophie Cunningham has seemingly given President Donald Trump her blessing to use now-famous images of her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[12,259870,99,434],"class_list":["post-743800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-donald-trump","tag-outkick-sports","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}