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Until you’ve spent the previous few days dwelling below a rock in a cave on Mars, you’re most likely conscious that each the US males’s and the US ladies’s hockey groups gained gold medals on the Olympics.

And also you additionally could have heard that Donald Trump made an idiotic joke concerning the ladies’s crew in his congratulatory name to the boys.

Not surprisingly, the ladies’s crew has collectively turned down their invitation to the White Home. And lots of are disenchanted that the boys have failed to stay up for them.

In case you missed it, Trump “joked” that he can be compelled to ask the ladies’s crew to the White Home, in any other case he can be “impeached.”

To the chagrin of many, the gamers largely laughed alongside.

Many have identified that they’re largely very younger, they’d simply gained a gold medal, and so they had been on a telephone name with the President of america.

In different phrases, they may have simply been giddily laughing together with no matter Trump stated.

However the disappointment from critics extends to the boys’s crew’s choice to side-step something that resembles controversy — a stance that has prevented them from talking out in protection of the ladies’s crew.

“Yeah, we’re excited. Every little thing is so political. We’re athletes. We’re so proud to characterize the US and if you get the prospect to go to White Home and meet the president, we’re proud to be People and that’s so patriotic,” stated Jack Hughes, who scored the medal-winning aim in extra time towards Canada, advised the Each day Mail on Monday.

“It doesn’t matter what your views are we’re tremendous excited to go to the White Home tomorrow and be part of that.”

Hughes went on to state that he plans to keep away from all “negativity” and he and his crew proceed on their nationwide victory lap.

“Persons are so unfavorable about issues. I believe everybody in that locker room is aware of how a lot we help them, how proud we’re of them and we all know the identical approach we really feel about them, they really feel about us,” he stated of the ladies’s crew, including:

“They’ve obtained busy schedules, too. Everyone seems to be giving us backlash for all of the social media stuff in the present day. Persons are so unfavorable on the market and they’re simply looking for a motive to place folks down and make one thing out of just about nothing.

“Our relationship with them, over the course of being within the Athletes’ Village, I believe we’re so tight with their group. After we gained the gold medal we had been within the cafeteria at 3:30am within the morning with them and we go from there, pack our baggage and we’re on the bus.”

The boys’s crew is predicted to be in attendance at Trump’s State of the Union handle on Tuesday evening.

For sure, the ladies’s crew is not going to be readily available.