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senseandsensibility

(24,660 posts)
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 08:04 PM 6 hrs ago

US Women's Hockey Team Captain: Trump Remark A "Distasteful Joke"

Breaking on CNN. She also said that unfortunately it overshadowed the amazing success of women athletes at the Olympics.

It's more than anyone on the men's team could manage. Just saying.

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US Women's Hockey Team Captain: Trump Remark A "Distasteful Joke" (Original Post) senseandsensibility 6 hrs ago OP
DonOLD Rump is a "Distasteful Joke". #TrumpIsUnfitToBePresident Trueblue1968 6 hrs ago #1
Yes, I think she was very circumspect in her comments senseandsensibility 6 hrs ago #2
Boy! Had to read that again carefully... 3825-87867 4 hrs ago #4
Excellent! I'm so Glad Hillary Knight spoke Out.. Cha 5 hrs ago #3
Those ladies didn't deserve this bullshit kwolf68 4 hrs ago #5
What was the "distasteful joke"? ShazzieB 4 hrs ago #6
Here you go Cirsium 4 hrs ago #7
It's so typical of him to make a crack like that. What a loser. ShazzieB 4 hrs ago #9
Since when did he need the threat of anything to coerce young women to come to his house? Marie Marie 3 hrs ago #10
With all that Trump's CABAL popsdenver 4 hrs ago #8

senseandsensibility

(24,660 posts)
2. Yes, I think she was very circumspect in her comments
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 08:27 PM
6 hrs ago

considering everything. But at least she spoke up. It takes a woman to do so. Good for her!

3825-87867

(1,877 posts)
4. Boy! Had to read that again carefully...
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 09:58 PM
4 hrs ago

thought she said circumsized!
But probably meant emasculated.

Cha

(318,090 posts)
3. Excellent! I'm so Glad Hillary Knight spoke Out..
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 08:50 PM
5 hrs ago

I think she made her point and I Hope many many Women take it to heart.

Thank You For Letting Us Know.

kwolf68

(8,412 posts)
5. Those ladies didn't deserve this bullshit
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 10:02 PM
4 hrs ago

And shame on the Men's team for their complicity to a fascist, cruel monster. I will look very kindly on the 5 players who didn't support them, to the others, fuck you. It appears that brady tkachuk is whining that some Canadian fans are "turning on him"? You men people who the fucking President YOU love actually are kinda pissed he wants to colonize them? THEY are upset? Geezus H Brady, how goddamn dumb can you be. Canada is a proud nation. They surely have no aspirations to become colonized by a meandering moronic pedophile.

ShazzieB

(22,436 posts)
6. What was the "distasteful joke"?
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 10:15 PM
4 hrs ago

I just got home after being offline for the last 3 hours, and this was one of the first things I saw when I looked in on DU. If there's a post about it here somewhere I haven't been able to find it yet.

EDIT: Never mind, I just found a news story about it. Here's the link for anyone else who might be in the dark: https://www.nbcnews.com/sports/olympics/trump-ignites-culture-war-us-hockey-gold-medal-winners-rcna260432

I must say this sounds like bog standard Schlump assholery. 😠

Cirsium

(3,748 posts)
7. Here you go
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 10:28 PM
4 hrs ago

"I must tell you, we’re going to have to bring the woman’s team, you do know that," Trump said when extending the invitation to the men's team. If he did not invite the women's team, "I do believe I probably would be impeached," he said.

The US hockey team members all yucked it up.

https://www.nbcchicago.com/olympics/2026-milan-cortina/u-s-hockey-controversy-what-did-president-trump-say-about-the-womens-hockey-team/3898911/

Note: the scribes keep changing it to "the women’s team," but he said "the woman’s team."

Marie Marie

(11,140 posts)
10. Since when did he need the threat of anything to coerce young women to come to his house?
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 11:06 PM
3 hrs ago

Oh that's right. Grandpa doesn't have it in him anymore.

popsdenver

(2,052 posts)
8. With all that Trump's CABAL
Wed Feb 25, 2026, 10:31 PM
4 hrs ago

has displayed towards women, for the last decade, I can't imagine why ANY woman votes Republican........
AND his behavior the past five decades, esp........

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