As the signs of cognitive decline became too obvious to ignore, President Joe Biden stopped granting access to the media, including for the traditional Super Bowl interview. President Donald Trump restored this norm upon reelection, sitting down this year with NBC’s Tom Llamas. This year’s “Super Bowl interview” is an unaired portion of the previously-aired broader interview that aired across NBC platforms, and which the “media reporter” beat absolutely hated because Llamas didn’t behave like an undermedicated theater kid. Well, they’re not going to like this portion of the interview, either. The interview starts with discussion of the Super Bowl. Llamas tries to work Trump for a pick, but Trump diplomatically demurs: Now for the portions of the Trump-NBC interview held for the #Super Bowl: First, President Trump refuses the bait, declines to pick a team to win pic.twitter.com/Rhm7TXZTa2 — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 8, 2026 TOM LLAMAS: Mr. President, we thank you so much for your time. We really do appreciate it. DONALD TRUMP: Thank you very much. LLAMAS: As you know Americans are getting ready for the Super Bowl, for this great big game, and you have two teams, the Seattle Seahawks versus the New England Patriots. Who do you think is going to win? TRUMP: Well, I've watched them both during the season, and New England is amazing because to have a second coming is pretty- pretty good. Quarterbacks both good. Seattle’s an amazing comeback quarterback and the other one is just an amazing quarterback. I think it's going to be a great game. I like both areas of our country very much. I'd better not make any predictions. You get yourself in big trouble. But I think it's going to be a really great game. Seattle has had an amazing season. LLAMAS: Yeah. Strong defense. TRUMP: New England has a great tradition of winning. Bob Kraft’s done a fantastic job. You know, the whole thing is going to be very exciting. The quarterback situation is interesting. LLAMAS: They’re great. They’re both great. TRUMP: Both great. Staying on the Super Bowl, Llamas asks Trump about former Patriots coach Bill Belichick being snubbed for the Hall of Fame on his first ballot: Trump is asked about Bill Belichick being snubbed for the Hall of Fame, says he'll be likely watching the game at MaL "He's had a little bit of a controversy but what difference does that make?" pic.twitter.com/QV0vnEZwLk — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 8, 2026 LLAMAS: That leads me to my next question, you have a really good relationship with the Patriots including the former head coach, Bill Belichick. What did you think when he was snubbed on the first ballot of the Hall of Fame? TRUMP: I thought it was terrible. I mean, he's won so much, won so many Super Bowls, a great coach. He became a little bit controversial, I guess, after that. A little period after that. During it he was just a great coach. I thought it was very inappropriate. LLAMAS: You think he deserves to be in the Hall of Fame? TRUMP: Oh, yeah. It's like, “what have you done for me lately?” Well, you know, you have a great career, and he has had a little bit of a controversial year and a half two years, maybe, but what difference does that make? Now he should’ve- he should be in there right at the top. LLAMAS: What are your plans for the Super Bowl? We know you're not going to go over there. You're going to watch here. Who are you inviting? TRUMP: I'll be sitting- probably in Palm Beach, depending on what happens. In my position, in this job of mine, sometimes you have to move around quickly, very quickly. But we’ll be most likely at Mar-a-Lago or one of my clubs watching with a lot of people, a lot of friends. Or I may very well be in The White House. And now a policy question: Llamas asks trump the affordability question, and Trump rattles off a list of achievements. Llamas asks the affordability question. Trump says we're at the Trump Economy now. pic.twitter.com/vpIhadlEqE — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 8, 2026 LLAMAS: Friends and families just like you will be coming together on Super Bowl Sunday, people are shopping this week, running the kids around, trying to keep their homes with this brutal winter we've been having. In the last year a lot of prices have come down, things like gas and eggs, but others, since you took office, have come up like natural gas and coffee. When can Americans expect those prices to come down? TRUMP: Well, they've already come down. I think you've seen, Tom, when I took over eggs, poultry, all these things were through the roof. In fact, the first question I got, what are you going to do about eggs? It was my second day in office at a news conference and they were screaming, what are you going to do about eggs? Eggs had gone up like four times. If you've noticed over the last few days, it's only a few days, but the Democrats have gone to another subject. I think they're probably saying dictator or something. They’ve got a new word. They don't use the word affordability anymore because prices are way down. Gasoline is -- I just left Iowa, $1.99 and even $1.85 a gallon. $1.85 a gallon. That's in Iowa. Many states are cracking $2. Gasoline is way down. And, honestly, everything is coming way down. Beef is coming down. LLAMAS: Yeah, but beef, coffee -- (CROSSTALK) TRUMP: Coffee is coming down…well, it’s already come down. I'll tell you what, in the last four days -- it's only four days -- the Democrats have not uttered the word affordability. They're the ones that caused the problem. I took over a mess in every way. The border was a mess. That everybody admits. The border is great. Crime was a mess. Right now, 125 years, it's the lowest crime that we've had since 1900. So we're doing the job. But the one thing they don't say anymore is affordability because I fixed the problem that they created. LLAMAS: Let’s stay on the economy, you just mentioned it, you inherited a mess from President Biden when it comes to the economy, but at what point is it on you? At what point are we in the Trump Economy? TRUMP: Oh, I'd say we're there now. I’m very proud of it. 5.6%. You know, we had a GDP of 5.6 despite a shutdown. We had a 42-day shutdown, I call it the Democrat shutdown, and, because of that, I lost a point and a half. I would have been in the 7.00 GDP which hasn't been seen I don’t know- ever maybe. Maybe ever. And I think '26 is even going to be better. You know, we have hundreds of billions of dollars pouring into our country, actually trillions, $18 trillion is being invested in our country as we speak. And there are factories and plants and thousands of businesses being built all over the country. Nobody has ever seen -- I just spoke to president XI of China. Nobody has ever seen anything like it right now in America. LLAMAS: When will we see those jobs and those factories open? Because manufacturing has been down -- TRUMP: Well, you’re already seeing it in construction because they're all building. You know, we have factories are being built, car plants are coming in from Canada, coming in from Mexico, they’re leaving Germany, Japan, they're all coming into the United States and you're seeing it in your construction numbers and, you know, we have to build them, and the plants are under construction.  LLAMAS: In your term? You think those plants will open in your term? TRUMP: Oh yeah. They're opening up over the next year, year and a half, yeah. Llamas shifts to immigration, and whether the pullback of officers signals a policy change. Trump brings it back to crime. Trump is asked about ICE raids in Minnesota, Trump counters with reduced crime pic.twitter.com/gw4MVWmQQi — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 8, 2026 LLAMAS: You've had successes on immigration. Some big ones. Illegal border crossings are at historic lows, but the entire country watched those videos of two Americans being killed in Minneapolis. You've gotten calls from your own supporters to make changes, and now you're pulling out some officers from Minneapolis. Are there more changes coming? TRUMP: Well, the reason we're pulling out, because we've done a great job there. We have crime down there, despite tremendous blow back from a governor that's incompetent, and from a mayor who is just -- I don't know where the hell he comes from, but the numbers -- the crime numbers in Minnesota- in Minneapolis in particular are down 25, 30%, because we've removed thousands of criminals from the area. These are hardened criminals that came in, many of them, most of them came in through an open border. And we've done a great job. But look at Washington, D.C. It's, like, a safe city. You can walk to The White House. You don't have to take an armored vehicle. You can walk. Washington is safe. Look at what happened in Louisiana. I got a call from the governor. Please do something with New Orleans. We went there four weeks ago. Crime is down 71%. Memphis, Tennessee, crime is down 80% after five weeks. And here's the big thing. Crime historically in this country, it's down at the lowest level it's ever been. And a bad word, murder, we've had less murders than we have had in decades. LLAMAS: One more question -- TRUMP: And do you know why? Because we’re tough on crime. Llamas asks Trump whether there is something he can do to unify the country. Do Democrats get this question or do they get automatic benefit of the doubt? Trump points to the SAVE Act as a unifying project. Given its high polling, he might not be wrong. Llamas asks Trump what is one thing that he could do to unify the country- Trump rolls out the SAVE Act. pic.twitter.com/RBjxlZ7Xib — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 8, 2026 LLAMAS: The Super Bowl is this sort of rare time in America, right, we're all united. It's a common experience. There's still divisions in this country, right? And Democrats will say it's all because of you, and then Republicans will say Democrats don't want to work with President Trump. They blame President Trump for everything. What's one thing you can do, really, to help Americans find common ground? TRUMP: Well, you know, we're working on the Save America Act which is going to secure up a lot of things but secure our voting -- I think people would like to do it, and I think Democrats would, too. You know, when you go to voter ID and you ask Democrats, it’s polling at 82% with Democrats. I'm not talking about Democrat politicians. I'm talking about Democrats. We have to do something about our voting. We need strong borders. We need a fair press, which we don't have, and we need, very important, we need the strong border, the fair press and we need fair elections. We need elections where people aren't able to cheat. And we're going to do that -- I'm going to do that. I'm going to get it done. And by the way, it polls, even with Democrats. They want that. That concluded the interview. Finally, Llamas wrapped the segment by explaining the Democrat’s position on voter ID. Llamas wraps the Super Bowl segment by bothsidesing the widely popular voter ID. The media bros will howl regardless. TOM LLAMAS: We should note voter ID rules do have wide public support, but the vast majority of Democrats on Capitol Hill oppose them, arguing that such rules… pic.twitter.com/sg0ugSBsdJ — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 8, 2026 LLAMAS: We should note voter ID rules do have wide public support, but the vast majority of Democrats on Capitol Hill oppose them, arguing that such rules would make voting more difficult for millions of Americans. As Super Bowl interviews go, it was not the syrupy sycophancy we see accorded to Democrats, but the interview wasn’t overly hostile, either. Llamas went down the middle, schmoozed a bit about the game and talked some policy. The media bros will surely hate it.  

We often accuse the Elitist Media, with a decades-long body of evidence here at the Media Research Center, of conducting themselves in a manner similar to that of progressive activists. On rare occasions, they also act as policy advisors. It isn’t often that the media will try to steer liberal politicians away from a 20% position on an 80% issue. On matters pertaining to transgender treatments for minors, for example, they joined Democrats in going right off the cliff. But on voter ID, it appears that they appear to be finding religion. Watch as CNN’s Dana Bash and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries discuss the SAVE Act: WATCH: CNN's Dana Bash very gently points to Hakeem Jeffries that Voter ID is an 80%+ issue, Hakeen Jeffries vomits all over the SAVE Act nonetheless pic.twitter.com/rnJ3GMSeLF — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 8, 2026 DANA BASH: I want to turn to a big debate about elections. The president said this week -this past week, that he wanted to nationalize elections at The White House and on Capitol Hill. They say that what they mean legislatively is pushing what they call the SAVE Act, which would mandate Americans show proof of citizenship like a birth certificate and also potentially more information about the registration to vote. Now, I understand you don't support things like a passport, for example, but requiring basic ID in order to vote is really popular. A Pew poll from a few months ago showed 83% of Americans, including 71% of your fellow Democrats, support requiring an ID to vote. Why are they wrong? HAKEEM JEFFRIES: Well, I haven't said that they're wrong. We know that states are the ones who are empowered to conduct elections, and every state should be allowed to decide the best way to proceed to ensure that there's a free and fair election. Here in New York there are, in fact, voter identification requirements. The question is that what Republicans are trying to do is to engage in clear and blatant voter suppression. They know that if there's a free and fair election in November, they're going to lose. In fact, Republicans have been losing every single election since Donald Trump was sworn in in January of last year, including most recently, decisively in Texas. And of course, losing all across the country up and down the ballot in the November off year elections in places like New Jersey or Virginia, New York. BASH: Yeah. And they've been losing. I mean, Virginia is a good example. They have a requirement to show your ID and Democrats won very, very handily across- across the way. So why not maybe even just take that off the table and say, okay, maybe not a passport or a birth certificate, but show ID? JEFFRIES: Well, first of all, every state is empowered to be able to make the decision on their own, and we completely and totally support that. What Donald Trump wants to do is try to nationalize the election. Translation: steal it. And we're not going to let it happen. We stopped them in terms of their gerrymandering efforts where they were going to try to redraw congressional maps in red states throughout the nation, not expect Democrats to respond forcefully, and try to rig the midterms. They failed. We've stopped Donald Trump from being able to federalize the National Guard, which we believe was probably part of some toxic attempt to unleash troops on American cities all across the nation and intimidate people from voting. And we're going to stop him from nationalizing the election. This is going to be a free and fair election. It's going to be conducted like every other election, where states and localities have the ability to administer the laws. It is not surprising that an elected Democrat would oppose requiring proof of citizenship and/or picture identification prior to voting. It is surprising to see Elitist Media try to lead the elected Democrat off the ledge and into the realm of common sense. TWICE, in this instance. But Jeffries refused both of Bash’s attempts at coming into some sort of gentle triangulation. Instead, Jeffries expounded on his Strange New Respect for Article I, Section II, Article II, Section I, and the 10th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. This is all opportunistic, of course, and directly antithetical to his previous support for the “For the People Act”, which of course “federalized” elections in all the ways the Democrats wanted. Bash did not call him out on these hypocrisies. ABC’s Jon Karl had a similar exchange with California Senator Adam Schiff. Schiff’s oppositions, though, rested upon a different predicate than those of Jeffries: WATCH: ABC's Jon Karl tries to get Adam Schiff to move off of SAVE Act objections by isolating Voter ID and demonstrating it is an 80%+ issue, Schiff bitterly clings to the Helpless Minorities Hoax pic.twitter.com/YLK3paqs5T — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 8, 2026 JON KARL: So Republicans are making a big push for the so-called SAVE Act, at least some Republicans are. It would require proof of citizenship to be able to vote. I understand you and other Democrats oppose that. There are roughly 20 or so million voting age Americans who don't actually have the requisite- the papers that would be required to- to- to show readily available. But given there's Republicans have undermined confidence in elections and the integrity of elections: what about the- what about the idea of voter ID, a photo ID being required to vote? Are you in favor of that? Can- can there be a compromise where Democrats and Republicans put forward photo ID as a requirement for voting? ADAM SCHIFF: So, Jonathan, what- what you've just asked is essentially, Republicans have created distrust of the elections by making nonexistent- by making claims of nonexistent fraud in the elections. And shouldn't we use the distrust they've created in order to enact a voter suppression law, which is the SAVE Act, which would require people to have a birth certificate or passport documents that millions of Americans don't have. Almost half the country doesn't have a passport, and I don't know where many millions of people would even find a birth certificate, so… (CROSSTALK) KARL: I was…No, no, no, but- but…I asked you… SCHIFF: …phony fraud claims… KARL: But I was asking you a different question. Photo ID. Because, as you know, let's show up…there was a recent poll. There's been a lot of polls on this, but in one recent Pew poll, 83% of adults support requiring photo ID to vote, 71% of Democrats favor requiring photo ID. Is that something that you can support? And if not, why not? SCHIFF: It's still going to be something, John. It's- it's still going to be something that disenfranchises people that don't have the proper Real ID, driver's license ID that, that don't have the ID necessary to vote even though they are citizens. This is another way to simply try to suppress the vote. And the last thing I think we want to do is discourage more people, more citizens, from voting while they're attacking those same elections, while they're trying to do away with absentee ballot voting, while they're trying to do away with being able to register to vote… KARL: All right… SCHIFF: …through the DMV or by the mail. So it's part of the broader disenfranchisement effort. And no, I don't think that's the right direction. KARL: All right, Senator Schiff, thank you for joining us this morning.  Karl tried to soft-pitch the idea of Voter ID to Schiff as a way to maybe get Republicans off of election integrity. But Schiff refused. Like Jeffries, he called it "voter suppression.”  Karl then took another pass, citing overwhelming support this time. Schiff was unfazed, and went to one of the most bigoted tropes that has been historically deployed in opposition to voter ID: the Helpless Minorities Hoax- that is, the idea that persons of ethnic minority origins are somehow incapable of securing the proper documents required to satisfy proof of identity or citizenship. Karl did not push back on this, choosing instead to wrap the segment. It says something that even the Elitist Media recognize where the country is on such an issue as voter ID, in a way that they didn’t about other 80/20 issues. But after immolating themselves on other issues such as Covid and transgender treatments for kids, this appears to be a matter of basic self-preservation.

We could have predicted that a Super Bowl played in the home stadium of the San Francisco 49ers was going to lead some woke sports section to turn to their revolutionary hero Colin Kaepernick, the one who wore pigs-with-police hat socks because all cops are apparently pigs. It came from The Washington Post. The online headline:  What do we make of Colin Kaepernick now? The Super Bowl is being played in his former home stadium, at a societal moment that echoes the issues he forced football fans to confront. So why is he out of mind? As @AGHamilton tweeted for all of us: "Beyond parody to publish this take after a week of arguing that WaPo’s sports section provides irreplaceable and critical insights to readers." Former fans of the Post Sports section were annoyed at the paper's crusading against the "Redskins" name. We reported in 2014 that in a crusade led by sports columnist Mike Wise, the Post printed 31,562 words on the self-created controversy in just one year. The Super Bowl is being played in Colin Kaepernick's former home stadium, at a societal moment that echoes the issues he forced football fans to confront nearly 10 years ago, after he kneeled during the national anthem before a 49ers game. https://t.co/TX2l7r7msx — The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) February 8, 2026 Sports reporter Adam Kilgore offered the typical opinion piece:  SAN FRANCISCO — The most relevant figure to Super Bowl LX is absent from it. The game will be played in his former home stadium, in the place where his protest made him a national lightning rod and a global symbol. The social issues swirling around America’s largest sporting spectacle carry distinct echoes of what prompted his actions and what led to his exile. And yet he remains outside the conversation and invisible within the confines of the NFL. Colin Kaepernick might as well be a ghost. “Colin Kaepernick?” Seattle Seahawks safety Julian Love said this week, as if hearing a name he had not considered in a long time. “Oh, wow.” Yes, wow. Kaepernick hasn't played in the NFL since 2016. The quarterback drafted just above him in the second round in 2011 is Andy Dalton, who's still a backup for the Carolina Panthers, but few notice. Most players who played during Kaepernick's years are retired and  barely remembered now. For his part, Love later praised Kaepernick's activism in the article.  As usual, leftist activism makes you a “worldwide emblem of outrage,” a woke hero: The image of Kaepernick on a knee became a worldwide emblem of outrage over police violence and racial injustice — and a tempest that led to unwanted political entanglement for the NFL, fierce ire from the political right and Kaepernick’s ostracism from professional football. The current moment and the Super Bowl’s location provide a platform to examine the legacies of Kaepernick’s protest. He served as a flash point, and even as he semi-receded from public life, his influence hovers over the league as an example of both courage and consequences.... His boldness and prescience did not ensure triumph. Donald Trump, the president who referred to players who knelt as “that son of a b----,” won reelection. Most of this article is a pile of leftist athletes, union reps, and professors, complaining the the current ICE agitators in Minneapolis near more celebrity hype:  “The silence there is very, very loud from athletes both in and outside of Minneapolis,” said Ayesha Bell Hardaway, director of Case Western Reserve University’s Social Justice Institute. “That, too, is Colin’s legacy. The impact of him paying that consequence, we should all wonder if what he had to endure has made others feel as if they cannot speak out and therefore not speak out.” To The Washington Post, there can always be more revolutionary leftist protesting -- so they can amplify and celebrate it. 

Meet Politico's Supervillains of the TDS Universe. Artist Natalia Delgado provided us with a rendering of the sheer villainy of a howling mad J.D. Vance, whose angry piercing gaze seems about to burn the hearts out of sensitive Georgetown liberals whose world has been turned upside down in the wake of the 2024 election. Behind Vance, staring ominously out at the world, is the spooky Big Brother hypnotic glare of the unholiest of all unholy supervillains, none other than Orange Man Bad.  Who, oh who, can combat the overwhelming power of the MAGA supervillains? Fortunately, Politico reporter Gregory Svirnovskiy on Thursday has shined a light on a possible path to salvation. Olympic athletes. Yes, according to Svirnovkiy, the MAGA supervillains can be heroically stifled by athletes from other countries defeating Team USA on the snowy (and ICE-y) playing fields of the Winter Olympics as you can see in "Trump’s geopolitical tensions spill into the Winter Olympics." The president’s repeated jabs at longtime partners, his inconsistent tariff policy and repeated plays for Greenland have shown just how much he’s shifted the traditional world order. The resulting international “rupture,” as described by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in Davos last month, has turned beating the Americans in Italy from a crowning sporting achievement to an even greater moral imperative for the president’s rivals. “This is life and death,” said Charlie Angus, a former member of Parliament in Canada with the New Democratic Party and prominent Trump critic. “If it’s the semifinals and we’re playing against the United States, it’s no longer a game. And that’s profound.” Life and death?? Yes, Donald Trump keeps winning, but can we hope that Team MAGA can finally be stopped at the Winter Olympics? Svirnovskiy certainly seems to be holding out the possible hope that all liberals can desperately grasp onto:  Trump has also clashed with many of the countries vying to top the leaderboards in Milan. Since returning to the White House in January, he’s antagonized Norway, which took home the most medals in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, over a perceived Nobel Peace Prize snub and clashed repeatedly with Canada, which finished fourth. “We’re looking at the world in a very different light,” Angus said. “And we’re looking at a next-door neighbor who makes increasingly unhinged threats towards us. So to go to international games and pretend that we’re all one happy family, well, that’s gone.” Trump has also sparred with Emmanuel Macron, the president of France (the 13th-place finisher in Beijing), and threatened a military incursion in pushing Denmark (a Scandinavian country which curiously hasn’t medaled in the Winter Olympics since 1998) to cede Greenland. Is Mr. Angus vying for an employment at Politico with his TDS displays? The position of labor reporter has been vacant since the departure of the legendary Mike Elk. Here's how you know he's a hard-core leftist: "In September 2025, Angus started a YouTube channel in partnership with the MeidasTouch Network under the name Meidas Canada." Then came the "legendary" athletes: “With the current American president, no one knows what he will do or say tomorrow,” said legendary goaltender Dominik Hasek, a gold medalist with Czechia in the 1998 Nagano Games and a one-time rumored presidential candidate in his home nation. “If he doesn’t make negative comments about athletes from other countries in the coming weeks, everything will be fine. But that could change very quickly after one of his frequent hateful attacks.” Does Svirnovkiy have an axe to grind? He explains on his LinkedIn page:  My parents left the Soviet Union as religious refugees in 1993, fleeing a country that censored truths that didn’t conform to its ideological narratives. They spent much of their lives in the dark....I know what it's like to come from a place where press freedoms are nonexistent, where the public has no window into the decisions and policies at the top. It's why I believe in political journalism, in attempts at educating the public, at empowering them to decide how to act and lead.

Meet Politico's Supervillains of the TDS Universe. Artist Natalia Delgado provided us with a rendering of the sheer villainy of a howling mad J.D. Vance, whose angry piercing gaze seems about to burn the hearts out of sensitive Georgetown liberals whose world has been turned upside down in the wake of the 2024 election. Behind Vance, staring ominously out at the world, is the spooky Big Brother hypnotic glare of the unholiest of all unholy supervillains, none other than Orange Man Bad.  Who, oh who, can combat the overwhelming power of the MAGA supervillains? Fortunately, Politico reporter Gregory Svirnovskiy on Thursday has shined a light on a possible path to salvation. Olympic athletes. Yes, according to Svirnovkiy, the MAGA supervillains can be heroically stifled by athletes from other countries defeating Team USA on the snowy (and ICE-y) playing fields of the Winter Olympics as you can see in "Trump’s geopolitical tensions spill into the Winter Olympics." The president’s repeated jabs at longtime partners, his inconsistent tariff policy and repeated plays for Greenland have shown just how much he’s shifted the traditional world order. The resulting international “rupture,” as described by Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in Davos last month, has turned beating the Americans in Italy from a crowning sporting achievement to an even greater moral imperative for the president’s rivals. “This is life and death,” said Charlie Angus, a former member of Parliament in Canada with the New Democratic Party and prominent Trump critic. “If it’s the semifinals and we’re playing against the United States, it’s no longer a game. And that’s profound.” Life and death?? Yes, Donald Trump keeps winning, but can we hope that Team MAGA can finally be stopped at the Winter Olympics? Svirnovskiy certainly seems to be holding out the possible hope that all liberals can desperately grasp onto:  Trump has also clashed with many of the countries vying to top the leaderboards in Milan. Since returning to the White House in January, he’s antagonized Norway, which took home the most medals in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, over a perceived Nobel Peace Prize snub and clashed repeatedly with Canada, which finished fourth. “We’re looking at the world in a very different light,” Angus said. “And we’re looking at a next-door neighbor who makes increasingly unhinged threats towards us. So to go to international games and pretend that we’re all one happy family, well, that’s gone.” Trump has also sparred with Emmanuel Macron, the president of France (the 13th-place finisher in Beijing), and threatened a military incursion in pushing Denmark (a Scandinavian country which curiously hasn’t medaled in the Winter Olympics since 1998) to cede Greenland. Is Mr. Angus vying for an employment at Politico with his TDS displays? The position of labor reporter has been vacant since the departure of the legendary Mike Elk. Here's how you know he's a hard-core leftist: "In September 2025, Angus started a YouTube channel in partnership with the MeidasTouch Network under the name Meidas Canada." Then came the "legendary" athletes: “With the current American president, no one knows what he will do or say tomorrow,” said legendary goaltender Dominik Hasek, a gold medalist with Czechia in the 1998 Nagano Games and a one-time rumored presidential candidate in his home nation. “If he doesn’t make negative comments about athletes from other countries in the coming weeks, everything will be fine. But that could change very quickly after one of his frequent hateful attacks.” Does Svirnovkiy have an axe to grind? He explains on his LinkedIn page:  My parents left the Soviet Union as religious refugees in 1993, fleeing a country that censored truths that didn’t conform to its ideological narratives. They spent much of their lives in the dark....I know what it's like to come from a place where press freedoms are nonexistent, where the public has no window into the decisions and policies at the top. It's why I believe in political journalism, in attempts at educating the public, at empowering them to decide how to act and lead.