"I thought it was sort of a distasteful joke and unfortunately that is overshadowing a lot of the success, the success of just women at the Olympics carrying for Team USA and having amazing gold medal feats. We're just focusing on celebrating the women in our room, the extraordinary efforts, and continue to celebrate three gold medals in program history as well as the double gold for both men's and women's at the same time."
"I do believe I probably would be impeached [if the women's team wasn't invited]. Several of the men's players were captured laughing at Trump's comments in video that later went viral."
"People are so negative about things, he said. I think everyone in that locker room knows how much we support [the women's team], how proud we are of them. The same way we feel about them, they feel about us."
After the US men's ice hockey team won gold at the Winter Olympics, Donald Trump called the locker room and joked that he would probably be impeached if he didn't invite the women's team to the State of the Union address. Hilary Knight, captain of the US women's ice hockey team and a five-time Olympic medalist, responded by calling Trump's remarks a distasteful joke that overshadowed the women's Olympic success and gold medal accomplishments. Knight emphasized the focus should remain on celebrating the women's extraordinary efforts and the historic double gold medals won by both men's and women's teams. The controversy sparked backlash, with men's player Jack Hughes attempting to clarify that the locker room deeply supports and respects the women's team, noting the mutual pride between both squads.
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