“Will Team USA men's hockey go to the White House? It's complicated”

No, it really isn’t.

https://ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2026/02/23/will-team-usa-mens-hockey-go-to-the-white-house-trump-call/88824855007/

Will Team USA men's hockey go to the White House? It's complicated

Trump invited the gold medal-winning hockey team to the White House for Tuesday.

For The Win

Love this: “In a furious tirade on social media Monday, Olbermann wrote: 'Anybody smart (or respectful of women athletes) on the U.S. Men's Olympic hockey team or connected to it, will refuse Trump's invitation to The State of the Union.

'Any who show up are declaring their indelible stupidity and misogyny. The End.'

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“He later added: 'It's official: US Gold Winning Olympic Hockey team declined invitation to be political props for Trump at the SOTU tomorrow. The women, that is. The men are still too stupid, self-absorbed and misogynistic to realize that going, will stick to them permanently.'”

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/winterolympics/article-15586165/keith-olbermann-usa-hockey-trump-invite.html

Ex-ESPN star blasts 'self-absorbed and misogynistic' USA hockey stars for accepting Trump's State of the Union invite

Trump made the proposal during a celebratory phone call with the team after their stunning 2-1 overtime win over rivals Canada in the gold medal game at the Winter Olympics on Sunday.

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@CStamp Men's hockey is a sickness. Everywhere there's these old hasbeens who went to the US to work in NHL and have their brains rotted.

And then they come home after that, to spew hatred.
#Selanne

@androcat These are young men.

@CStamp Yeah, we don't tend to hear all that much from them while they are in "Youth Hockey to Full-on Fascist" pipeline, but the hasbeens that we get back tend to be completely rotten.

And that points to a culture problem in the teams these young men also play in.

@CStamp I have a feeling as soon as they won the game and the one player expounded in their interview over and over that they were so “proud to be an American!” over and over that they were angling to go to the White House. The partying with Patel and the fact they are accepting the SOTU invite confirms they are either Trump supporters or *incredibly* stupid guys.
@gedeonm It’s a special talent to turn win into a loss.