Donald Trump was at it once more Tuesday when he hosted the U.S. males’s ice hockey crew — contemporary off successful gold on the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics — within the Oval Workplace and joked about retaining one of many gamers’ medals.
“Yeah, I’ll put it on. Completely. I’m not giving it again,” the bling-obsessed president teased Matthew Tkachuk after the Florida Panthers ahead supplied Trump his medal to strive on.
“Hey, that’s cool. I by no means thought I’d ever have this on me,” Trump added.
Video of the second, shared on-line by Trump White Home communications adviser Margo Martin, rapidly went viral — amid continued controversy over degrading feedback that Trump made concerning the U.S. girls’s hockey crew, which additionally received gold in Italy.
Trump has a historical past of constructing comparable trophy- and medal-keeping quips.
He beforehand joked about having the ability to “say I received them athletically” after being gifted a set of official 1984 Olympic medals by Casey Wasserman, chair of the Los Angeles 2028 organizing committee who is under scrutiny for links to late convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein.
