POTUS calls U.S Olympic skier "a real Loser"

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Anonymous wrote:Sports should be a place that is politics free. Represent your country and be proud , if not go to the liberal Olympics

Which fields should and shouldn't be politics-free? Many politicians are lawyers before they run for office. So clearly politics is ok for lawyers. Some enter politics after a career in business like George W. Bush. Some enter politics after a career in entertainment like Reagan. Trump was both a businessman and an entertainer and spent years expressing himself politically. So clearly those are fine. What about Jim Jordan and Tommy Tuberville, who entered politics after being athletes and coaches?

If you ask me, anybody not subject to the Hatch Act is free to express themselves politically.

And Team USA is entitled to prohibit them from representing the US in international competition if it so chooses. Sports teams can bench players and leagues can ban them. Actions have consequences.

Here the skier’s comments were in poor taste. He didn’t have to answer the reporter’s question by giving a divisive sound bite. He could have said he was representing the US, a country that has supported his Olympic dream. Anything beyond his athletic performance didn’t belong at an Olympics presser.

That is exactly how Olympians who lived behind the Iron Curtain expressed themselves. You must be one of those communist bots PP.

It’s called having class. While President Trump reacted poorly, the American people knew what they were getting when they re-elected him. You may hate his guts, but he is the President and has a right to comment on US athletes casting aspersions on the country that helped them get to the Olympics and whose flag under which they compete.

Just say you’re proud to represent the US at the Olympics. If you’re not, then don’t represent it. Simple.

Where is having class when the President call an Olympian Athlete a loser? Also, using your dumb logic, couldn't Trump have just said nothing? Simple.

So you agree the skier was wrong to comment?

DP. NO!!

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Anonymous wrote:Sports should be a place that is politics free. Represent your country and be proud , if not go to the liberal Olympics

Which fields should and shouldn't be politics-free? Many politicians are lawyers before they run for office. So clearly politics is ok for lawyers. Some enter politics after a career in business like George W. Bush. Some enter politics after a career in entertainment like Reagan. Trump was both a businessman and an entertainer and spent years expressing himself politically. So clearly those are fine. What about Jim Jordan and Tommy Tuberville, who entered politics after being athletes and coaches?

If you ask me, anybody not subject to the Hatch Act is free to express themselves politically.

And Team USA is entitled to prohibit them from representing the US in international competition if it so chooses. Sports teams can bench players and leagues can ban them. Actions have consequences.

Here the skier’s comments were in poor taste. He didn’t have to answer the reporter’s question by giving a divisive sound bite. He could have said he was representing the US, a country that has supported his Olympic dream. Anything beyond his athletic performance didn’t belong at an Olympics presser.

That is exactly how Olympians who lived behind the Iron Curtain expressed themselves. You must be one of those communist bots PP.

It’s called having class. While President Trump reacted poorly, the American people knew what they were getting when they re-elected him. You may hate his guts, but he is the President and has a right to comment on US athletes casting aspersions on the country that helped them get to the Olympics and whose flag under which they compete.

Just say you’re proud to represent the US at the Olympics. If you’re not, then don’t represent it. Simple.

Just FYI. The United States does not fund it's Olympic athletes. Athletes are funded through moms and dads and families and others with good will. THe US Olympic Committee isa private organization. So, no, the Grand Orange Pedophile has no special "right".

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The athletes were pointedly asked about things in the U.S. I’m proud that they could speak their minds and give their opinion because we are not Soviet Russia or some other heinous country that doesn’t allow free speech. Being critical of free speech that doesn’t align with your political beliefs is anti-American!

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The athletes were pointedly asked about things in the U.S. I’m proud that they could speak their minds and give their opinion because we are not Soviet Russia or some other heinous country that doesn’t allow free speech. Being critical of free speech that doesn’t align with your political beliefs is anti-American!

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Anonymous wrote:FYI, the guy was asked how he is feeling and he answered the question, he told the truth. Can you imagine any other world leader posting something anywhere near this slop? Trump is a global embarrassment

Actually other leaders do respond to athletes critical of their own countries when representing them at international competitions. They just don’t do it quite as bluntly.

The president had a right to criticize the skier, but he was rather blunt about it. A better way would have been to say that you’re disappointed in the skier’s opinion as expressed at an Olympics presser. While everyone is entitled to their opinion, there is a time and place to express it. Other athletes are proud to represent the United States and such negativity undermines team unity.

Or, Trump could simply not behave in a manner that draws the ire of the world and the majority of the country.

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Anonymous wrote:The athletes were pointedly asked about things in the U.S. I’m proud that they could speak their minds and give their opinion because we are not Soviet Russia or some other heinous country that doesn’t allow free speech. Being critical of free speech that doesn’t align with your political beliefs is anti-American!

Exactly. You know who won't speak poorly of their country? Russians and North Koreans because they don't want to be put in prison or face a firing squad when they get home. We are better than that.

For now at least,

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I'm sure that when Biden was POTUS, and people publicly made terrible comments about how the US was becoming a sh(thole (I think Trump said something to this effect), that was fine. But, it's not fine to criticize the US when the Grand Orange Pedo Protector is POTUS.

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I hope the majority of the US Olympic "losers" boycott any invitation to the White House.

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Anonymous wrote:I hope the majority of the US Olympic "losers" boycott any invitation to the White House.

+1 But, why would Trump invite "losers" to the WH. He only likes "winners".

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It takes a great deal of physical, mental,
and emotional energy to qualify to be an Olympian and not a single one is a loser.

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Team USA men's curler, Rich Ruohonen, called out ICE operations in Minnesota during a press conference at the Winter Olympics. Ruohonen said that "what's happening in Minnesota is wrong...there are no shades of grey, here."

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an insult from orange pedo is actually a compliment