Donald Trump responded publicly after Team USA secured a gold medal in men\u2019s hockey at the 2026 Winter Olympics. Following the team\u2019s overtime victory over Canada in Milan, the president shared a message congratulating the players and later spoke with them directly as celebrations continued.<\/p>\n
Donald Trump congratulates team USA hockey<\/p>\n
Donald Trump congratulated the United States men\u2019s hockey team after its gold medal victory at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan, according to the Detroit Free Press<\/a>. Coach Mike Sullivan said, \u201cThe players just had the President on, I don\u2019t know what it was, what do you call it, FaceTime, whatever, in the locker room. He just spoke to the group, expressing how proud he was of the group and congratulating everybody on the win.\u201d Captain Auston Matthews said, \u201cHe called and just congratulated us.\u201d<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n The United States defeated Canada 2-1 in overtime to secure the gold medal. Sullivan said the game \u201cwas an inspiration to our country. I can\u2019t tell you how many texts I\u2019ve received over the last day or so about watch parties at 8 o\u2019clock in the morning. I think from a viewership standpoint, the United States, there were a lot of people paying attention, the President included.\u201d The team was scheduled to return to NHL duties on February 23, and its flight was diverted from New York\u2019s JFK airport to Miami because of a storm in the northeast.<\/p>\n Trump posted on Truth Social<\/a>: \u201cCongratulations to our great U.S.A. Ice Hockey team. THEY WON THE GOLD. WOW!.\u201d He added, \u201cLOTS OF WINNING!!! President DONALD J. TRUMP.\u201d The White House also shared a social media image<\/a> depicting a bald eagle and a goose following the victory.<\/p>\n The post followed prior political tensions between the United States and Canada. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said at the World Economic Forum, \u201cLet me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.\u201d After the Olympics, Carney wrote<\/a>, \u201cYou\u2019re coming home with 21 hard-fought Olympic medals.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Donald Trump Sends a Message to Team USA Hockey After Gold Medal Win<\/a> appeared first on Mandatory<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donald Trump responded publicly after Team USA secured a gold medal in men\u2019s hockey at the 2026 Winter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":467952,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[377],"tags":[3189,532,56646,23,4571,5,1955,3255,1309],"class_list":{"0":"post-467951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hockey","8":"tag-2026-winter-olympics","9":"tag-auston-matthews","10":"tag-detroit-free-press","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-gold-medal","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-mike-sullivan","15":"tag-team-usa","16":"tag-united-states"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116119296107491436","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=467951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}