“Any one that goes to the Olympics to symbolize the USA after which says they don’t wish to symbolize the USA needs to be instantly stripped of their Olympic uniform,” Scott fumed in a video shared on X.
Scott, a Trump acolyte, wrote within the clip’s caption that the USA is a “beacon for freedom and democracy” — although he doesn’t need athletes to make use of their freedom of speech to say what’s on their minds.
Critics on social media identified that loving America doesn’t imply agreeing with each Trump coverage. In addition they defended athletes’ proper to specific their views.
