ABATTBQ11 said:
Teslag said:
ABATTBQ11 said:
aggie93 said:
13B said:
What was the joke? I keep hearing it referenced but not what was sad. TIA
Trump said while talking to the Men's team he would need to invite the women as well or else the Democrats would probably impeach him.
"Yeah, you won a gold medal at the Olympics, but the guys are the ones I really care about."
If Trump is only inviting them because he has to, why is it such a big deal to turn him down? If he doesn't care about them winning a gold medal, why should they care about going to the White House?
Or he was just joking around. People used to do that once upon a time.
Yeah, plenty of people joke and about Trump, and then he throws tantrums and rants on truth social. Kinda cuts both ways.
Right, but they have a sport to grow and one single moment to do it every four years where Americans might pay attention for more than 5 minutes. They could have chosen to brush it off and go and give Trump a hard time in a charming way and become American darlings for it and grown the popularity of their sport. Trump is a guy that would have praised them up and down and all around during the moment. He's a jokester, sometimes it's funny and sometimes it isn't. So what. They likely would have enjoy themselves more than they are imagining. He's not really Hitler.
This path they are choosing, much like the Women's soccer team for about a decade. Is really really stupid. Trump is a billionaire sitting in the Oval Office for his second term. He can be who he's always been on some silly social media platform that most people will never look at. That's his prerogative.
Americans of most political stripes are very willing to support and praise athletes, men and women, if they are representing America and just plain express a love for their country without taking sides on any issue. Case in point, American Men's Hockey, which has plenty of liberals among them. Being gracious and accepting an invitation to the WH, no matter the president, is the right thing to do. I would be saying the same thing if it were Biden or Obama. I visited the White House during Clinton and Bush 43 administrations at the invitation of friends working in those administrations, one was a military assignment and one a policy staff assignment. I was an excited and proud American visiting the WH in both cases even though one President I agreed with very little on and the other I agreed with on about 80%.
We need to get back to helping our young people understand and practice civility and setting aside differences under certain circumstances. Invitations to visit the WH are one of those opportunities.