President Donald Trump invited the U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team to the State of the Union after their gold-medal win at the Milan-Cortina Olympics.
FBI Director Kash Patel joined the locker-room celebration and put the president on speakerphone so players could hear him live.
“I’ll tell you what.
“I just told my people two minutes ago, I didn’t know they’d be calling, I said we’re giving the State of the Union speech on Tuesday night,” Trump said.
One player cut him off with, “We’re in.”
🚨JUST IN: President Donald Trump called Team USA hockey team after they beat Canada to win the Gold and invited them to come to the State of the Union Address Tuesday night.
The entire team accepted the invitation and they are arranging transport.
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Trump promised a quick, no-hassle trip back to Washington for the players.
“We’ll get Kash, and we’ll get the military to get you guys over,” Trump said.
“You won’t have to worry about the weather or landing.”
“We don’t care if it’s snowing or if it’s the worst blizzard – we’ll be sailing through like you did on the ice.”
Honors and praise
Trump said he plans to honor the men’s team the next day and include the U.S. women’s team as well.
He singled out goaltender Connor Hellebuyck after a standout game in the gold-medal contest where he stopped 41 shots.
“By the way, your goalie played not bad.
I’ve seen hockey goalies have slightly worse games.
Unbelievable and you were all unbelievable.
The team is pretty good, you played,” Trump said.
Players sounded energized and appeared ready to accept the invitation to go from an Olympic locker room in Italy to a prime-time speech in Washington within days.
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