--- title: Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan Visit Jimmy Kimmel's White House description: Megan Rapinoe and Alex Morgan discussed winning the World Cup and equal pay over 5,000 chicken nuggets during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel. canonical: https://time.com/5625407/megan-rapinoe-alex-morgan-on-kimmel/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-07-12T15:23:06.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:59:29.612Z og:title: Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan Celebrate 5,000 With Chicken Nuggets 'White House Style' og:description: While being served 5000 chicken nuggets og:url: https://time.com/5625407/megan-rapinoe-alex-morgan-on-kimmel/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltec37566ca8edfdb9/6989ffe0b3fce349eb0c537e/megan-rapinoe-alex-morgan-jimmy-kimmel.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: United States of America v Netherlands : Final - 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup France og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Megan Rapinoe, Alex Morgan Celebrate 5,000 With Chicken Nuggets 'White House Style' twitter:description: While being served 5000 chicken nuggets twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltec37566ca8edfdb9/6989ffe0b3fce349eb0c537e/megan-rapinoe-alex-morgan-jimmy-kimmel.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Megan Rapinoe and Alex Morgan Talk World Cup Win and Equal Pay Over 5,000 Chicken Nuggets  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jul 12, 2019 3:23 PM UTC  LYON, FRANCE - JULY 07: Players of United States of America celebrate after winning the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup France Final match between The United States of America and The Netherlands at Stade de Lyon on July 07, 2019 in Lyon, France. (Photo by Quality Sport Images/Getty Images) LYON, FRANCE - JULY 07: Players of United States of America celebrate after winning the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup France Final match between The United States of America and The Netherlands at Stade de Lyon on July 07, 2019 in Lyon, France. (Photo by Quality Sport Images/Getty Images)Quality Sport Images—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Jul 12, 2019 3:23 PM UTC It’s a fact widely covered in the news that US Women’s Soccer captain and [world champion Megan Rapinoe](https://time.com/5623543/megan-rapinoe-world-cup-trump-equal-pay/) had [no desire to go to the White House](https://time.com/5616255/rapinoe-white-house-comments/). But thanks to late night funnyman Jimmy Kimmel, Rapinoe has some semblance of what it would be like to be a White House visitor. During an appearance on _Jimmy Kimmel Live!_, Rapinoe and co-captain Alex Morgan discussed the [US’ joyful and unapologetic victory at the World Cup](https://time.com/5621626/us-womens-soccer-team-unapologetic-excellence-in-sports/) and the [team’s current fight for equal pay](https://time.com/5605119/us-women-soccer-equal-pay/) before Kimmel announced that he had a surprise for them: the White House experience, complete with an Oval office backdrop and a meal of 5,000 chicken nuggets accompanied by two Secret Service men bearing dipping sauces. “If you really are the champions we know you are, the three of us will eat all of this before the night is done,” Kimmel cracked. Kimmel’s stunt was an obvious jab at the [Trump administration’s predilection for serving elite athletes fast food.](https://time.com/5543071/trump-ndsu-fast-food/) Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5625407/megan-rapinoe-alex-morgan-on-kimmel/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5625407/megan-rapinoe-alex-morgan-on-kimmel/"},"headline":"Megan Rapinoe and Alex Morgan Talk World Cup Win and Equal Pay Over 5,000 Chicken Nuggets","datePublished":"2019-07-12T15:23:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:59:29.612Z","description":"They aren't going to the White House, so Jimmy Kimmel brought the White House to them","url":"https://time.com/5625407/megan-rapinoe-alex-morgan-on-kimmel/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Late Night Television","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltec37566ca8edfdb9/6989ffe0b3fce349eb0c537e/megan-rapinoe-alex-morgan-jimmy-kimmel.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltec37566ca8edfdb9/6989ffe0b3fce349eb0c537e/megan-rapinoe-alex-morgan-jimmy-kimmel.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"United States of America v Netherlands : Final - 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup France","caption":"United States of America v Netherlands : Final - 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup France","creditText":"Quality Sport Images—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5625407/megan-rapinoe-alex-morgan-on-kimmel/","name":"Megan Rapinoe and Alex Morgan Talk World Cup Win and Equal Pay Over 5,000 Chicken Nuggets"}}]}] ```