They just plain made the wrong choices. It speaks to their character.
simplepimple2025 on
Many of them are Trump goons so no big surprise.
Hrmbee on
A number of the issues identified in this article:
>As the celebrations from the 2-1 overtime win over Canada spilled off the ice and behind closed doors, FBI director Kash Patel joined Team USA in the locker room in a leaked video that has since gone viral. In the video, Patel is seen celebrating and drinking beer with the team, whose victory came on the same day an armed man breached the perimeter at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property. The FBI has since taken the lead investigating the incident.
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>Then, in another video posted amidst the postgame celebrations, Patel was seen holding up a cell phone to the hockey team for a call with President Trump. Included in the call is a moment where Trump and the team seemingly share a laugh about having to invite the United States women’s team — who also won gold against Canada — to the White House as well.
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>So much of the success Team USA had at these Olympics was at the hands of women. But, for most of the Games, the White House has either been silent in the face of these victories or has actively disparaged athletes that have spoken out against the United States politically. It wasn’t until the men’s hockey team won gold over its long-standing rival that the Trump administration decided to hand out praise and victory calls.
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>Given the NHL reportedly has the second-highest percentage of right-leaning athletes out of the five major sports leagues in the United States, it shouldn’t come as a surprise.
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>It’s especially disappointing considering the lip service the men’s team paid to the women throughout the Olympics. Multiple members of the men’s team attended games in support of their Team USA peers, and Auston Matthews and Matthew Tkachuk both had high praise for the United States women in their pursuit of gold.
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>And after the gold medal game, Jack Hughes told NHL reporter Jackie Redmond that Megan Keller was the first person on his mind after scoring the golden goal for the United States. Just a few days prior, Keller was the hero for the United States women with her overtime goal against Canada.
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>The Hughes brothers also have a deep connection to the United States women’s hockey program. Their mother, Ellen Weinberg-Hughes, was part of the US women’s national team that won silver at the 1992 world championships. Since then, Weinberg-Hughes has been a player development consultant for the United States women’s national team and no doubt contributed to the gold medal the team won at the 2026 Winter Olympics.
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>All of that feels so hollow now in the face of the team’s embarrassing postgame moments with Patel and Trump. To laugh at a joke disparaging your United States teammates and peers who won the same accomplishments as you just a few days prior is incredibly disappointing behavior.
The administration’s utter silence when it came to the success of amateur female athletes during these games was such a stark contrast to their response when the professional athletes in men’s hockey won gold. This has been reflected time and again not only in the celebrations but also in the lack of support at the amateur levels for sports.
Infamous_Employer_85 on
They should not have been put in that position, it was a failure of leadersip.
Ok_Yak5947 on
That’s all insanely wealthy white guys. What did you expect.
trainsaw on
I don’t think they wanted to or cared to tbh. A large number of them align with MAGA and approve. The bigger issue is we cannot celebrate these guys or their achievements without an admin trying to use them as propaganda
housecatxo on
This is only surprising to people completely unfamiliar with hockey.
Romantic_Piscean on
They won the game, the gold, and that should’ve been a unifying moment for the country. But they introduced politics into it immediately with Patel in the locker room celebration, which he and MAGA amplified. They looked past Trump’s comments about the women achieving the same result, did little to defend their fellow athletes, and the speed with which they were shown at the State of the Union speaks to a willingess to be used politically, or at least an incredible naivete. And it shows that Trump doesn’t care at all about women’s sports. All the bluster about trans athletes is something quite different.
So the result now is the women’s team is the champion for the left, the men’s team is for MAGA, and that’s 100% on the men’s team here. And nobody emerges from this well – not the women’s team, not Patel, not Trump, not the men’s team. Nobody. They’re the Kid Rock of Gold Medal winners. Well done.
ProfessorVolga on
They’re a bunch of maga shitheads. Not particularly surprising.
Gliese_667_Cc on
So did 70M other people. This is who we are. A nation of absolute morons.
Etzell on
I don’t think there was ever a chance of the men’s team meeting the moment. For one, it was known before the games even started that certain members of the team were full MAGA. For two, we’re talking about a group of (largely) white men who grew up able to afford a ridiculously expensive sport and have been singularly focused on hockey and insulated from the realities of the world since at LEAST age 13. Wishcasting that this exact thing wasn’t going to happen because it was the biggest international hockey game in most people’s conscious lifetime was foolish.
I wish it weren’t the case, but that’s how it currently is, and would take a seismic shift in hockey culture to fix it. There are CHUDs on the Canadian team, too. Hell, Gretzky’s a Trumper.
That all said – drag ’em for it. Especially when contrasted to the Women’s team who, by sheer nature of being women in sports, are forced to have their very existence be seen as “political” by the worst people in this country.
sixtysecdragon on
“2 for 2!”
CarryBigStickorElse on
Yeah they don’t give a shit.
Shooflepoofer on
This is a dumb claim. This division IS the cultural moment.
jemappellejimbo on
Its funny how all these people and 40% of the country keeps failing to ‘meet the moment’
OceanLemur on
They ruined it as soon as one of the subservient little fan boys invited the director of the FBI to chug beers with them. Disrespecting the women only got rid of their plausible deniability.
GoldenSandpaper9 on
If you expected the hockey team to be the bastion of leftism I got a bridge to sell you
PrincipleUnusual7244 on
The represented the USA 🙂 and then they represented the USA 🙁
ro536ud on
All these dicks but can’t find any balls
shafty17 on
A lot of the defense of these guys has been that they are friends and support the women’s team. I’m sure this is true but isn’t that actually part of the issue and not a defense? Like great that you’re friends but in the one moment where someone was shitting all over your friends’ gold medal winning achievement you laughed and went along with it.
It’s really easy to be an ally in private when it doesn’t require doing anything at all. It’s much harder when it comes time to actually stand up for those people
Section8Ski_School on
I can’t believe a bunch of maga rats, laughing about people being snatched off the street without warrants, our president threatening to invade our allies, and America turning into an oligarchy dictatorship, failed to meet a cultural moment. Enjoy your McDonalds at the same table with pedophile rapists. It’s what you scum deserve.
mostly_browsing on
It’s because they are assholes. It’s pretty simple. Not saying they can’t change or won’t grow, but right now, they are assholes (you can tell because they act like assholes).
EmergencyJacket207 on
I don’t think very highly of the Men’s US Hockey Team. In fact I don’t care that they won the Gold. They’re not very good winners.
Altesocke on
They must not be able to read the room. It’s an orange stain on their gold medal.
sylbug on
They did the most American thing possible: showed their asses to the world and thought it made them look good.
itsamemyusername on
From heros to zeros in my opinion.
Carolina_Blues on
This isn’t surprising at all. Hockey is culturally conservative across the board (and that also includes hockey players not from the US). I wouldn’t have expected anything different
But they made their bed and now they have to lie in it with their cold McDonald’s
AcanthisittaNo6653 on
It is amazing how trump taints everything he touches, even US Olympic team wins, both Men’s and Women’s.
afr33think3r on
I lost respect for them.
Kitchen-Ad-5571 on
they would rather be trumps fast food manwhores than show integrity.
angrymoderate09 on
As a soccer fan: when the women were voicing concern about equal pay, the challenge became that the pay gap was largely based on FIFA prize money, something that team usa could do little to fix.
Eventually an agreement was reached where the men would have their prize money (2026) put into an escrow account and wait a year for the women to get their prize money (2027), then the money would be split evenly across both genders.
The men had to agree to the mixing of the funds which they did gladly.
I love both teams! And this proved they loved and respected each other.
paka96819 on
I think getting McDonald’s is the big payoff
Radiant-Month-1168 on
How to turn your gold medal into getting zero sponsorships…… lol.
Maga losers.
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They just plain made the wrong choices. It speaks to their character.
Many of them are Trump goons so no big surprise.
A number of the issues identified in this article:
>As the celebrations from the 2-1 overtime win over Canada spilled off the ice and behind closed doors, FBI director Kash Patel joined Team USA in the locker room in a leaked video that has since gone viral. In the video, Patel is seen celebrating and drinking beer with the team, whose victory came on the same day an armed man breached the perimeter at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property. The FBI has since taken the lead investigating the incident.
>
>Then, in another video posted amidst the postgame celebrations, Patel was seen holding up a cell phone to the hockey team for a call with President Trump. Included in the call is a moment where Trump and the team seemingly share a laugh about having to invite the United States women’s team — who also won gold against Canada — to the White House as well.
>
>…
>
>So much of the success Team USA had at these Olympics was at the hands of women. But, for most of the Games, the White House has either been silent in the face of these victories or has actively disparaged athletes that have spoken out against the United States politically. It wasn’t until the men’s hockey team won gold over its long-standing rival that the Trump administration decided to hand out praise and victory calls.
>
>Given the NHL reportedly has the second-highest percentage of right-leaning athletes out of the five major sports leagues in the United States, it shouldn’t come as a surprise.
>
>…
>
>It’s especially disappointing considering the lip service the men’s team paid to the women throughout the Olympics. Multiple members of the men’s team attended games in support of their Team USA peers, and Auston Matthews and Matthew Tkachuk both had high praise for the United States women in their pursuit of gold.
>
>And after the gold medal game, Jack Hughes told NHL reporter Jackie Redmond that Megan Keller was the first person on his mind after scoring the golden goal for the United States. Just a few days prior, Keller was the hero for the United States women with her overtime goal against Canada.
>
>The Hughes brothers also have a deep connection to the United States women’s hockey program. Their mother, Ellen Weinberg-Hughes, was part of the US women’s national team that won silver at the 1992 world championships. Since then, Weinberg-Hughes has been a player development consultant for the United States women’s national team and no doubt contributed to the gold medal the team won at the 2026 Winter Olympics.
>
>All of that feels so hollow now in the face of the team’s embarrassing postgame moments with Patel and Trump. To laugh at a joke disparaging your United States teammates and peers who won the same accomplishments as you just a few days prior is incredibly disappointing behavior.
The administration’s utter silence when it came to the success of amateur female athletes during these games was such a stark contrast to their response when the professional athletes in men’s hockey won gold. This has been reflected time and again not only in the celebrations but also in the lack of support at the amateur levels for sports.
They should not have been put in that position, it was a failure of leadersip.
That’s all insanely wealthy white guys. What did you expect.
I don’t think they wanted to or cared to tbh. A large number of them align with MAGA and approve. The bigger issue is we cannot celebrate these guys or their achievements without an admin trying to use them as propaganda
This is only surprising to people completely unfamiliar with hockey.
They won the game, the gold, and that should’ve been a unifying moment for the country. But they introduced politics into it immediately with Patel in the locker room celebration, which he and MAGA amplified. They looked past Trump’s comments about the women achieving the same result, did little to defend their fellow athletes, and the speed with which they were shown at the State of the Union speaks to a willingess to be used politically, or at least an incredible naivete. And it shows that Trump doesn’t care at all about women’s sports. All the bluster about trans athletes is something quite different.
So the result now is the women’s team is the champion for the left, the men’s team is for MAGA, and that’s 100% on the men’s team here. And nobody emerges from this well – not the women’s team, not Patel, not Trump, not the men’s team. Nobody. They’re the Kid Rock of Gold Medal winners. Well done.
They’re a bunch of maga shitheads. Not particularly surprising.
So did 70M other people. This is who we are. A nation of absolute morons.
I don’t think there was ever a chance of the men’s team meeting the moment. For one, it was known before the games even started that certain members of the team were full MAGA. For two, we’re talking about a group of (largely) white men who grew up able to afford a ridiculously expensive sport and have been singularly focused on hockey and insulated from the realities of the world since at LEAST age 13. Wishcasting that this exact thing wasn’t going to happen because it was the biggest international hockey game in most people’s conscious lifetime was foolish.
I wish it weren’t the case, but that’s how it currently is, and would take a seismic shift in hockey culture to fix it. There are CHUDs on the Canadian team, too. Hell, Gretzky’s a Trumper.
That all said – drag ’em for it. Especially when contrasted to the Women’s team who, by sheer nature of being women in sports, are forced to have their very existence be seen as “political” by the worst people in this country.
“2 for 2!”
Yeah they don’t give a shit.
This is a dumb claim. This division IS the cultural moment.
Its funny how all these people and 40% of the country keeps failing to ‘meet the moment’
They ruined it as soon as one of the subservient little fan boys invited the director of the FBI to chug beers with them. Disrespecting the women only got rid of their plausible deniability.
If you expected the hockey team to be the bastion of leftism I got a bridge to sell you
The represented the USA 🙂 and then they represented the USA 🙁
All these dicks but can’t find any balls
A lot of the defense of these guys has been that they are friends and support the women’s team. I’m sure this is true but isn’t that actually part of the issue and not a defense? Like great that you’re friends but in the one moment where someone was shitting all over your friends’ gold medal winning achievement you laughed and went along with it.
It’s really easy to be an ally in private when it doesn’t require doing anything at all. It’s much harder when it comes time to actually stand up for those people
I can’t believe a bunch of maga rats, laughing about people being snatched off the street without warrants, our president threatening to invade our allies, and America turning into an oligarchy dictatorship, failed to meet a cultural moment. Enjoy your McDonalds at the same table with pedophile rapists. It’s what you scum deserve.
It’s because they are assholes. It’s pretty simple. Not saying they can’t change or won’t grow, but right now, they are assholes (you can tell because they act like assholes).
I don’t think very highly of the Men’s US Hockey Team. In fact I don’t care that they won the Gold. They’re not very good winners.
They must not be able to read the room. It’s an orange stain on their gold medal.
They did the most American thing possible: showed their asses to the world and thought it made them look good.
From heros to zeros in my opinion.
This isn’t surprising at all. Hockey is culturally conservative across the board (and that also includes hockey players not from the US). I wouldn’t have expected anything different
But they made their bed and now they have to lie in it with their cold McDonald’s
It is amazing how trump taints everything he touches, even US Olympic team wins, both Men’s and Women’s.
I lost respect for them.
they would rather be trumps fast food manwhores than show integrity.
As a soccer fan: when the women were voicing concern about equal pay, the challenge became that the pay gap was largely based on FIFA prize money, something that team usa could do little to fix.
Eventually an agreement was reached where the men would have their prize money (2026) put into an escrow account and wait a year for the women to get their prize money (2027), then the money would be split evenly across both genders.
The men had to agree to the mixing of the funds which they did gladly.
I love both teams! And this proved they loved and respected each other.
I think getting McDonald’s is the big payoff
How to turn your gold medal into getting zero sponsorships…… lol.
Maga losers.