TEAM USA HOCKEY
Trump Honors Gold Medalists at SOTU
… And Awards Medal of Freedom!!!
Revealed
The White Home
President Donald Trump simply launched the U.S. males’s hockey workforce as his particular company on the State of the Union deal with on Tuesday — displaying the gold medal winners grinning from ear-to-ear.
They had been honored for about 5 minutes filled with applause, cheers and U-S-A chants that rang all through the Capital constructing. Trump congratulated them — and famous it was the primary time he noticed Democrats rise from their seats.
“Right here with us tonight is a gaggle of winners who simply made your complete nation proud,” he stated because the workforce entered the Home chamber.
Trump additionally congratulated the U.S. ladies’s workforce for its gold medal … saying they “quickly might be coming to the White Home.”
He then took a second to single out goalie Connor Hellebuyck — who he says the workforce nominated to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
“Consider it 46 photographs on aim — and I ask him, ‘The one shot the place you set your stick within the again and it bounced off, did you apply that? Or was it a bit of fortunate?’” Trump stated, playfully noting that Hellebuyck refused to reply the query.
POTUS made the promise simply minutes after the Purple, White and Blue gained the extra time thriller over Canada on Sunday … telling the blokes he’d like to have them expertise his speech in particular person, whereas additionally joking he needed to invite the gold medal-winning ladies’s workforce too, or he’d be impeached.
There was some controversy round Staff USA fanboying over Trump … however as Olympic hero Jack Hughes put it, their focus is on patriotismnot politics.
🚨BREAKING: Reporter ask Staff USA hockey star Jack Hughes “Are you excited to go to the White Home to fulfill Trump?”
“Yeah we’re excited!”
“The whole lot is so political. We’re athletes, we’re proud to symbolize the US. And while you get the possibility to go the White Home to fulfill the… pic.twitter.com/VHP3LJzbWY
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The backlash did not derail the squad from their festivities … which included a journey to E11EVEN in Miami earlier than hopping on an Air Power jet to get to the White Home for a tour.
The gang even had some one-on-one time with Trump within the Oval Workplace … however a number of gamers opted out of the journey altogether.
Now that Trump’s SOTU speech is within the books … it is time for these Olympic superstars to get again to their day jobs within the NHL.