MaddowBlog-It took just two days for Trump to put a Trumpy twist on the Olympics

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JD Vance said the Olympics are “one of the few things that unites the entire country.” In hindsight, maybe “entire” was overstating matters.

JD Vance on Thursday: The Olympics are “one of the few things that unites the entire country.”

Trump on Saturday: Yeah, about that.... www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2026-02-09T20:27:56.959Z

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/it-took-just-two-days-for-trump-to-put-a-trumpy-twist-on-the-olympics

Shortly after JD Vance arrived in Milan last week, the vice president took the opportunity to tell U.S. athletes participating in the Olympics that the competition “is one of the few things that unites the entire country.”....

On Saturday morning, roughly 48 hours after his vice president said the Olympics are “one of the few things that unites the entire country,” Donald Trump decided to step all over Vance’s line. MS NOW reported:

President Donald Trump called U.S. Olympian Hunter Hess a ‘real loser’ Sunday in response to the freestyle skier’s Friday remark that representing the United States in the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy is leaving him with ‘mixed emotions.’ In addition to calling Hess a ‘loser,’ Trump wrote on social media that the 27-year-old ‘shouldn’t have tried out’ for Team U.S.A.

For good measure, the Republican added in his online statement that he finds it “very hard to root for someone like this.”

He was, of course, referring to one of the Olympic athletes from his own country......

And while it’s true that booing is a common part of sports, the Olympics tends to inspire at least some modicum of patriotism, with American fans cheering on American athletes representing the United States at the international games.

But Trump didn’t quite see it that way.

Two weeks later, after the women’s soccer team won a bronze medal match in Tokyo, Trump kept going. “If our soccer team, headed by a radical group of Leftist Maniacs, wasn’t woke, they would have won the Gold Medal instead of the Bronze. Woke means you lose, everything that is woke goes bad, and our soccer team certainly has,” he wrote.

The Republican added that he wanted to see athletes who agree with him replace “the wokesters” in future games.

The Wall Street Journal reported over the weekend, “It is exceptionally rare for a sitting president of the U.S. to criticize a member of the country’s Olympic team.”

That’s true, although with the incumbent president, such norms have been erased.

[B.See]

1. He'll say the same thing about our athletes this time,

if they don't do as well as wants. or say something he doesn't like.

Because it's easy for draft dodging mfkrs to call those who actually STEP UP TO THE PLATE, 'suckers and losers.'