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The video of President Trump phoning the U.S. men’s hockey team after their dramatic Olympic overtime victory captured a genuine, joyful locker-room moment that the media wasted no time turning into a scandal. In the clip, Mr. Trump joked about inviting the women’s team as well, a quip that drew laughter from the men — laughter born of camaraderie, not contempt.
Predictably, the outrage machine spun that chuckle into a story about “misogyny,” while the rest of the country saw young men celebrating a historic win and answering a presidential congratulations. The women’s team later declined an appearance at the State of the Union, citing prior academic and professional commitments, a perfectly ordinary reason that the mob chose to treat as confirmation of some invented cultural grievance.
Let’s be blunt: patriots should be cheering both teams for bringing home gold, not policing locker-room laughter or looking for excuses to pounce on the next photo op. The men’s team accepted the president’s invitation and honored the country with a White House visit, a display of respect and unity that the mainstream left refuses to applaud because it doesn’t fit their narrative.
The real story here is the weaponization of offense by a left-leaning media and activist class that treats every ordinary interaction as a political cudgel. Instead of celebrating American excellence, they poke and prod until a harmless moment becomes a morality play designed to humiliate and divide. Conservative Americans see through that playbook and stand with the athletes, not the outrage entrepreneurs.
If you want proof this is about politics and not principle, look no further than the reaction: column inches and viral posts attacking a phone call and a laugh, while the accomplishments that earned those medals are brushed aside. This is the same crowd that insists on canceling statues and rewriting history but won’t allow ordinary citizens to enjoy a brief, human victory without turning it into a scandal.
At the end of the day, these hockey players represent the hard work, grit, and patriotism Americans admire; they deserve our gratitude, not a media inquisition. We should be teaching our kids to celebrate winners, to respect teammates, and to reject the perpetual outrage that the left traffics in. Support Team USA — not the outrage machine trying to steal their moment.
