On Tuesday afternoon, the Republican president hosted most of the contributors of the U.S. males’s hockey team at the White Residence after their historical gold-medal-profitable sport at the Frosty weather Olympics in Italy over the weekend. The match against longtime competitors Team Canada, which resulted in surprising-death additional time, marked the U.S. team’s first Olympic tourney victory since 1980’s “Miracle on Ice.”
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At some stage in a describe-op in the White Residence, Team USA and Florida Panthers hockey participant Matthew Tkachuk equipped to let Trump are attempting on his hardware.
“Yeah, I’ll build it on,” the seventy nine-year-old-fashioned president — who is not scared about his appreciate for medals and all issues gold — acknowledged while sitting at the wait on of the Resolute desk. As he grabbed the award and draped it around his neck, he quipped, “I’m not giving it wait on.”
The room erupted in laughter.
President Donald Trump joked that he would withhold the US Males’s hockey gold medal when he met the team at the White Residence (Margo Martin, X)
“Hey, that’s frigid,” Trump acknowledged. “I never concept I’d ever bear this on.”
“I’ll commerce you that for a pen,” Tkachuk joked wait on, pointing at a row of pens situated on the desk.
Trump’s meeting with the males’s team comes suitable hours ahead of his State of the Union tackle on Capitol Hill, at some level of which he’s anticipated to focus on his describe on the financial system, immigration and foreign affairs. Trump is attempting to scheme room for the males’s hockey team to watch his speech, in accordance with Residence Speaker Mike Johnson.
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The U.S. ladies folk’s hockey team — which also received the gold medal — declined the president’s White Residence invitation after audio surfaced of him joking that he was compelled to also invite the ladies folk or he’d face impeachment.
Trump wasn’t the greatest one to be handed a token of appreciation following the males’s hockey team’s victory. On Tuesday afternoon, the Division of Protection posted a describe on X of Team USA participant Connor Hellebuyck conserving a “Secretary of Protection” plaque. It was captioned “AMERICA’S SECRETARY OF DEFENSE!”
Connor Hellebuyck, team USA’s goalie, pictured with a ‘secretary of protection’ plaque (Division of Protection, X)
Machado proficient her Nobel Peace Prize, encased in a gold frame, to Trump at the White Residence last month (White Residence via Getty Photos)
The president has a long history of accepting other peoples’ awards — or being proficient original awards tailor-made suitable for him.
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In January, Trump well-liked the Nobel Peace Prize medal from Venezuelan opposition chief María Corina Machado. She equipped it to him in a gold frame at some level of a White Residence meeting, accompanied by a letter thanking him for his “unheard of leadership.”
And, in December, Trump received FIFA’s inaugural Peace Prize. The newly created award was given to him in recognition of his efforts to obtain to the bottom of conflicts around the world.
Most lately, mining executives handed the president a vibrant trophy, naming him the “Undisputed Champion of Pleasing Natty Coal.”
