Posted on 02/07/2026 4:18:39 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
They’re getting gold medals in ungratefulness.
Woke Team USA members expressed “mixed emotions” about representing the Stars and Stripes at the Winter Olympics, sparking calls by some Americans to boycott the Games.
Freestyle skier Hunter Hess ignited the firestorm Friday after telling reporters that wearing the American flag doesn’t mean he backs everything “going on” in the US.
“It brings up mixed emotions to represent the U.S. right now,” Hess said at a press conference ahead of competition.
“It’s a little hard, there’s obviously a lot going on that I’m not the biggest fan of and I think a lot of people aren’t,” he added. “Just because I’m wearing the flag doesn’t mean I represent everything that’s going on in the US.”
Fellow Team USA freestyle skier Chris Lillis also chimed in, griping about immigration enforcement and protests in the Land of the Free.
“I’m heartbroken about what’s happening in the United States,” Lillis said. “I think that as a country we need to focus on respecting everybody’s rights and making sure that we are treating our citizens as well as anybody with love and respect.”
“I hope that when people look at athletes compete in the Olympics they realize that that’s the America that we’re trying to represent,” he added.
Team USA figure skater Amber Glenn also weighed in earlier in the week, expressing concern about the Trump administration.“Politics affects us all,” Glenn told reporters. “It is something I will not just be quiet about.”
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This shameful behavior should have been censored by the news media for the good of all even the woke stupids but woke media is complicient . Punishment for unamerican activity should be meted out to all , kneelers 2.0, disgusting!
What? I assume she means ICE. Does she realize the people being arrested are not only not citizens, but not even here legally? I consider getting rid of rapists, traffickers, murderers, etc. to be the best way to "treat our citizens well."
Especially if they’re libtards.
If it requires a judge, it ain’t skiing.
The media wants to make a controversy of it. I’d say it was planned.
“They should stay in Italy.”
Italy is too good for them
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Yep don't want us to be united.
Kick them off our team. I will boycot them. How abt THAT? America doesn’t want YOU either.
Shut up and ski, or go home.
Is it just me, or is the US the only country whose athletes and performers badmouuth it at international events?
As a skier, they can piss off!
Love it!! Great idea. But why not Somali athletes?
Where’s Claudine Longet when you need her?
Ski Shooting!
If these a**holes do not want to represent their country, send their pampered asses back home. Boot them off the team.
Let them welcome illegal alien rapists, murderers, drug dealers, child molesters into THEIR homes with THEIR families.
Brainwashed morons!
They should join the idiots protesting the “unsustainable” Olympics. They’d fit right in.
Sure
Ski Mogadishu
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