Donald Trump was at it once more Tuesday when he hosted the U.S. males’s ice hockey crew — contemporary off profitable gold on the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics — within the Oval Office and joked about maintaining one of many gamers’ medals.
“Yeah, I’ll put it on. Absolutely. I’m not giving it back,” the bling-obsessed president teased Matthew Tkachuk after the Florida Panthers ahead supplied Trump his medal to strive on.
“Hey, that’s cool. I never thought I’d ever have this on me,” Trump added.
Video of the second, shared on-line by Trump White House communications adviser Margo Martin, shortly went viral — amid continued controversy over degrading feedback that Trump made in regards to the U.S. ladies’s hockey crew, which additionally received gold in Italy.
Trump has a historical past of creating related trophy- and medal-keeping quips.
He beforehand joked about with the ability to “say I won them athletically” after being gifted a set of official 1984 Olympic medals by Casey Wasserman, chair of the Los Angeles 2028 organizing committee who’s below scrutiny for hyperlinks to late convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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