Don’t count on to see U.S. Winter Olympic champion Amber Glenn on the White Home anytime quickly.
The determine skater — who received gold within the staff occasion on the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics — stated she received’t rejoice with the present president, Donald Trump, echoing the stance of the champion U.S. girls’s ice hockey staff, which declined an invite after controversy erupted over Trump’s dig at them.
“I’m electing to not both, so I don’t blame them in anyway,” Glenn told Us Weekly on the GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles on Thursday.
“It’s our proper to have the ability to select what we do and don’t endorse, and I feel it’s a resolution that every particular person has the precise to make,” she added.
Glenn, who in Italy grew to become the primary overtly queer lady to symbolize the U.S. in Olympic determine skating, throughout a press convention criticized Trump’s therapy of the LGBTQ+ neighborhood, saying it had been “a tough time.”
The athlete, who identifies as pansexual and bisexual, later stated she had obtained a “scary quantity of hate/threats” following the remarks.
She wrote on-line: “Once I selected to make the most of one of many superb issues about the USA of America (Freedom of speech) to convey how I really feel as an athlete competing for Workforce USA in a troubling time for a lot of Individuals I’m now receiving a scary quantity of hate/threats for merely utilizing my voice WHEN ASKED about how I really feel.”
