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During the men\u2019s postgame locker room celebration \u2014 which was attended by FBI director Kash Patel \u2014 President Donald Trump addressed the team by phone, offering his congratulations as well as an invitation to attend his State of the Union address two days later. Several players seemed to cheer in approval.<\/p>\n
\u201cI must tell you, we\u2019re gonna have to bring the women\u2019s team, you do know that,\u201d Trump said during the call, in a comment that was met with loud laughter in the locker room. By not inviting the other American gold medal hockey team, the president said, \u201cI do believe I\u2019d probably be impeached.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Monday, the U.S. women\u2019s team acknowledged it had been invited to the State of the Union address but politely declined.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are sincerely grateful for the invitation extended to our gold medal\u2013winning U.S. Women\u2019s Hockey Team and deeply appreciate the recognition of their extraordinary achievement,\u201d the team said in a statement. \u201cDue to the timing and previously scheduled academic and professional commitments following the Games, the athletes are unable to participate. They were honored to be included and are grateful for the acknowledgment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> During the men\u2019s postgame locker room celebration \u2014 which was attended by FBI director Kash Patel…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[90391,85970,16597,50637,48,52,51,47,50,49,80746,1024,3020,4612,225,427,1519,2281,88037,90103,1557],"class_list":{"0":"post-193044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-flavor-flav","9":"tag-gold-medal-game","10":"tag-hockey-team","11":"tag-invitation","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-la-headlines","14":"tag-la-news","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","17":"tag-los-angeles-news","18":"tag-milan-cortina-games","19":"tag-monday","20":"tag-president-trump","21":"tag-several-player","22":"tag-state","23":"tag-team","24":"tag-trump","25":"tag-u-s","26":"tag-u-s-man","27":"tag-union-address","28":"tag-woman"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}