{"id":494142,"date":"2026-02-23T13:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/494142\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T13:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:21:11","slug":"trump-facetimed-team-usa-after-they-beat-canada-for-olympic-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/494142\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump FaceTimed Team USA after they beat Canada for Olympic gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President Donald Trump is revelling in the United States\u2019 gold medal victory over Canada in Olympic men\u2019s hockey.<\/p>\n<p>Following Jack Hughes\u2019 golden goal to<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhive.com\/edmonton\/canada-loses-ot-usa-olympic-gold-medal-game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> defeat Canada 2-1 in OT<\/a>, Trump was quick to get in contact with the American squad. The 79-year-old President reportedly FaceTimed the team in the dressing room after the medal ceremony to both congratulate and invite Team USA to attend his upcoming State of the Union speech, slated for Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>TSN\u2019s Ryan Rishaug had the initial report of the Presidential message.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">President Trump on a FaceTime after the game invited team USA to the upcoming State of the Union.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ryan Rishaug (@TSNRyanRishaug) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSNRyanRishaug\/status\/2025625048820658285?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rishaug went on to say that the Americans have not committed to attending the speech, saying schedules may be hard to line up with NHL action slated to resume on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of FaceTime, Trump has publicly acknowledged the USA\u2019s victory over Canada at the Olympics. He took to Truth Social to talk about the thrilling Olympic victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations to our great U.S.A. Ice Hockey team. THEY WON THE GOLD. WOW!\u201d The President shared.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhive.com\/trump-facetimed-team-usa-after-beat-canada-olympic-gold\/trump-canada-olympic\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2246380 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"Trump-Canada-Olympic\" title=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"576\" height=\"150\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2246380\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Trump-Canada-Olympic.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2246380\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Truth Social<\/p>\n<p>While Trump himself hasn\u2019t publicly chirped at Canada yet, the official White House X account has weighed in.<\/p>\n<p>They shared a picture of a bald eagle strangling a Canadian goose while quoting former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau\u2019s post from last year following Canada\u2019s victory at the 4 Nations Face-Off.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kOiCXdVMao\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/kOiCXdVMao<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZIiychKPoo\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/ZIiychKPoo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The White House (@WhiteHouse) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhiteHouse\/status\/2025604750608040191?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There will be no love lost between Canadian and American hockey fans, as this victory will only intensify the rivalry between the two nations. We will see if the United States can defend their Olympic title when these countries inevitably collide in France for the 2030 Games.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. President Donald Trump is revelling in the United States\u2019 gold medal victory over Canada in Olympic men\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-494142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494142","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=494142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}