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Thursday's Final Word

The struggle session continues apace, as the Elitist Media continue to pummel the gold-medal winning U.S. Men’s Hockey Team for having the temerity to A: patriotically celebrate their gold medal B: pound beers with FBI Director Kash Patel and C: talk to President Donald Trump and accept his invites to both hang out at The White House and attend the State of the Union. Now ABC has joined this effort, with a report that is as bad as one would expect. Watch as correspondent Will Reeve’s video package makes a significant omission: How bad-faith is ABC's struggle session reporting on USA Men's Hockey? Note what's missing between the subtitles of the first and second Trump statements: the men's team speaking out in support of the women getting invited to The White House. WILL REEVE: Minutes after their… pic.twitter.com/6dcngT3bnO — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 27, 2026 WILL REEVE: Minutes after their triumph on the ice, FBI director Kash Patel joining the men's players in the locker room putting President Trump on the phone, who invited them to The White House and the State of the Union. DONALD TRUMP: We’re gonna have to bring the women's team. You do know that, right? USA MEN’S HOCKEY PLAYERS: Absolutely. Two for Two! Two for Two! TRUMP: I do believe I would probably be impeached, OK? Viewers watching the subtitles on TV did not view the players’ statements in support of the women’s team getting invited to The White House. These statements are key to the entire domestic narrative surrounding Team USA- the idea that the men’s team just laughed at President Donald Trump’s joke about inviting the women, without making any statement of support.  We’re very intentional in clarifying that there is a domestic narrative because the Canadian sports media are very mad as well, although their objections seem based on the players’ audacity to hang with Trump after his statements on annexation, tariffs, and other items. Or, reductio ad absurdum, just being in the general presence of Trump. Either way, the media seem bent on putting Team USA through the wringer. After his transcript sleight-of-hand, Reeve showcases a couple of players that have been browbeaten into apologizing, closes out with the captain of the women’s team and casts doubt about whether the women will actually go to The White House. This whole cycle is stupid and can’t end soon enough, but is highly instructive inasmuch as it exposes the bitterness of the Elitist Media and its collective recoil at the idea of American triumphalism. They probably rooted for Canada. Click “expand” to view the full transcript of the aforementioned report as aired on ABC World News Tonight on Thursday, February 26th, 2026: DAVID MUIR: Back at home tonight, the men and women's U.S. hockey teams, Olympic champions and tonight what some members of the men's team are now saying about that locker room laughter, the president's joke, and what they want everyone to know, particularly the women's team. Here is Will Reeve. WILL REEVE: As Team USA's men's hockey team celebrates their Olympic gold medal, tonight many of the players giving the gold medal-winning U.S. women's team their shine as well. JACK HUGHES: I’m so proud and I’m so happy that the men's and women's USA hockey teams brought gold medals back to the United States of America. REEVE: Minutes after their triumph on the ice, FBI director Kash Patel joining the men's players in the locker room putting President Trump on the phone, who invited them to The White House and the State of the Union. DONALD TRUMP: We’re gonna have to bring the women's team. You do know that, right? USA MEN’S HOCKEY PLAYERS: Absolutely. Two for Two! Two for Two! TRUMP: I do believe I would probably be impeached, OK? REEVE: Now some of those players regret their locker room laughter. CHARLIE McAVOY: Certainly sorry for how we responded to it in that moment. You know, things that just happened really quick there and if you know the men's team and if you know the relationships that we have, the amount of time we have spent, you know, with the women’s team and how we supported them, it's certainly not reflective of how we feel. REEVE: Goalie Jeremy Swayman saying this. JEREMY SWAYMAN: We should have reacted differently. We know that we are so excited for the women's team, we have so much respect for the women's team. To share that gold medal with them is something that we are forever grateful for. REEVE: Tonight women's team captain Hilary Knight reacting to the president's joke. HILARY KNIGHT: I thought it was sort of a distasteful joke and unfortunately that is overshadowing a lot of the success. We are trying to focus on celebrating the women in our room. REEVE: David, we saw the U.S. men's team visit The White House and attend the State of the Union on Tuesday. The women's team declined the president's invitation, citing over commitments. The president says that a White House visit from the women's team is in the works, but so far nothing appears to be scheduled. David. MUIR: This country celebrating the men and the women tonight and Will Reeve, we thank you.

Dave Zirin, who is allegedly the sports editor for the hard-left political magazine The Nation when he’s not issuing nasty, virulently anti-Israel takes, co-wrote “The Ugly Underbelly of the US Hockey Victory” with political science professor Jules Boykoff. After the U.S. hockey team’s thrilling, gold-medal winning overtime win over arch-rivals Canada, the president of the United States called to congratulate them and they had a friendly, jokey chat. That’s all it took to make leftist heads like Zirin's explode, burning up any patina of professed patriotism they may have previously claimed. He was the latest bitter leftist to condemn the team for apparently not hanging up on the president of the United States or making a political statement after their athletic triumph. The US Olympic hockey team beat Canada 2–1 in overtime in the gold medal game at the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympics on Sunday. The Canadian team showed up angry. Our neighbors to the north were upset because of how bellicose and erratic President Donald Trump has been toward the nation he proposed making the 51st state. …. As for Team USA, it was ready to fight—literally—because Trump had deemed Canada, Canadian Bacon—style, the enemy, and the players were ready to follow orders. The US squad was chock-full of Trump supporters who were more than willing to provide a photo op for Vice President JD Vance and the embarrassing FBI director, Kash Patel. Surely Zirin doesn’t think the team needed Trump to inspire them to beat their nemesis to the North? Or for hockey players to engage in fighting on the ice? Zirin's medals of honor were instead reserved for the Olympic athletes who displayed petulant anti-Trumper antics. He unloaded two offensive paragraphs, one insulting the hockey team, the other former President Ronald Reagan. Unlike other US Olympians speaking out against this regime, men’s hockey players chose to be lickspittles. In that regard, this hockey team is part of a rather ignominious USA hockey gold-medal tradition. A fan at the 2026 Milano Cortina Games donned a hockey sweater with “1980” emblazoned across the chest, the year a US hockey team became a legendary symbol of national unity. But in the years that followed, Republicans have used that legend to sow division. The Nation writer, not content to ruin the 2026 Olympic champs, reached back to smear the 1980 hockey squad that upset the Soviet Union on the way to winning the gold, as well as Reagan. ….Pundits turned the victory into a right-wing symbol. It showed that the country had moved away from the social struggles of the 1960s and ’70s and embraced the crypto-fascist variant of patriotism best exemplified in the 1980 election of Ronald Reagan. Zirin of course preferred athlete Eileen Gu, the American-born and educated skier who competed for Communist China. He concluded about the anti-Trump athletes: “But the solidarity proffered by fellow Olympians was heartening. This is a pick-a-side moment in the United States, and they picked the right one.” At The Nation, that "right side" is never the side of the United States.