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Tate McRae is responding to backlash after appearing in an NBC commercial endorsing Team USA for the Milan Olympics, which sparked criticism from Canadians questioning her loyalty.<\/p>\n
She addressed the criticism on Instagram, sharing a childhood photo holding a Canadian flag and writing she\u2019s \u201cCanada down,\u201d signaling support for her home country amid the online backlash.<\/p>\n
The reaction from Canadians has been harsh and meme-heavy, with commenters calling the ad an \u201cick,\u201d jokingly reminding her she\u2019s Canadian\u2014and one Qu\u00e9bec City radio station even dubbing her \u201cTra\u00eetre McRae.\u201d<\/p>\n
Canadian singer Tate McRae is responding to criticism over her Team USA commercial for the Milan Olympics. \u200b<\/p>\n
On Wednesday evening, she shared a childhood photo of herself holding a Canadian flag on Instagram, writing that she\u2019s \u201cCanada down\u201d to show support for her home country.<\/p>\n
Her response comes as Canadians are criticizing her decision to be in an NBC commercial endorsing Team USA at the Milan Olympics, especially amidst political turmoil between the countries.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, she posted the ad on Instagram with the caption saying in part, \u201cGo sports.\u201d<\/p>\n
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However, she\u2019s receiving a lot of backlash for her decision to be in the commercial from Canadians.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And ironically enough, the 22-year-old\u2019s birthday is on July 1, Canada Day.\u00a0<\/p>\n
An Instagram user commented on her Instagram post saying, \u201cBabes you are Canadian lol,\u201d jokingly reminding her of her roots.<\/p>\n
Another user shared, \u201cThe absolute ick every Canadian just felt. In 2026\u2026 what were you and your team thinking?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA Qu\u00e9bec City radio station just called her \u2018Tra\u00eetre McRae,\u2019 which translates to \u2018Traitor McRae.\u2019\u201d Hahaa! I love it,\u201d another user commented.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What to know Tate McRae is responding to backlash after appearing in an NBC commercial endorsing Team USA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,186795,186796,4963,82,57297],"class_list":{"0":"post-454798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-artist","11":"tag-milano-2026-winter-olympics","12":"tag-olympics","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tate-mcrae"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}