U.S. Winter Olympic Champion Reveals Why It’s A No To Trump | EUROtoday

Don’t count on to see U.S. Winter Olympic champion Amber Glenn on the White House anytime quickly.

The determine skater — who gained gold within the staff occasion on the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics — stated she gained’t have fun with the present president, Donald Trump, echoing the stance of the champion U.S. ladies’s ice hockey staff, which declined an invite after controversy erupted over Trump’s dig at them.

“I’m electing not to either, so I do not blame them whatsoever,” Glenn instructed Us Weekly on the GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles on Thursday.

“It is our right to be able to choose what we do and don’t endorse, and I think it is a decision that each individual has the right to make,” she added.

Glenn, who in Italy turned the primary overtly queer lady to signify the U.S. in Olympic determine skating, throughout a press convention criticized Trump’s remedy of the LGBTQ+ group, saying it had been “a hard time.”

The athlete, who identifies as pansexual and bisexual, later stated she had acquired a “scary amount of hate/threats” following the remarks.

She wrote on-line: “When I chose to utilize one of the amazing things about the United States of America (Freedom of speech) to convey how I feel as an athlete competing for Team USA in a troubling time for many Americans I am now receiving a scary amount of hate/threats for simply using my voice WHEN ASKED about how I feel.”