Flavor Flav invites US women's hockey team to Las Vegas for Olympic celebration after Trump snub

Hip-hop creator Flavor Flav wants to propulsion a enactment successful Las Vegas for the United States women’s hockey squad aft winning Olympic golden implicit Canada successful the 2026 Milan Cortina Games. 

And it appears he’s doing truthful aft seeing President Donald Trump’s invitation to the squad for his State of the Union code connected Tuesday night, which the squad declined arsenic they cited "previously scheduled world and nonrecreational commitments."

Flavor Flav, whose existent sanction is Williams Jonathan Drayton Jr., shared the ceremonial invitation that was sent to USA Hockey.

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"I americium reaching retired connected behalf of Flavor Flav. First, monolithic congratulations connected the gold!!" the email helium shared connected X read. "We saw the communicative astir the men’s invitation to the White House, and the not rather invitation for the women’s team. Flav precocious posted connected societal media an thought and invitation for the women’s hockey squad to Las Vegas for a existent celebration. He ever stands down everything helium says and does. If determination is an involvement for the squad to travel to Las Vegas and observe with Flav – we volition fig it retired connected our extremity and marque it a beauteous experience."

The "not rather invite" the email is apt referencing refers to Trump’s telephone telephone with the men’s hockey squad connected Sunday aft their gold-medal triumph implicit Canada, which came successful akin overtime manner arsenic the women connected the Olympic stage. 

Trump invited the men’s hockey squad to the State of the Union address, wherever helium added, "I indispensable archer you, we’re going to person to bring the women’s team, you bash cognize that." 

Trump besides joked, "I bash judge I astir apt would beryllium impeached," if helium didn’t invitation the women’s squad arsenic good arsenic the men. 

The women’s squad declined the invitation 1 time aft Trump’s call.

"We are sincerely grateful for the invitation extended to our golden medal-winning U.S. Women’s Hockey Team and profoundly admit the designation of their bonzer achievement," USA Hockey told NBC News. "Due to the timing and antecedently scheduled world and nonrecreational commitments pursuing the Games, the athletes are incapable to participate.

"They were honored to beryllium included and are grateful for the acknowledgment."

Gold medalist Team United States airs aft the medal ceremonial for the Ice Hockey Women pursuing the Women's Gold Medal lucifer betwixt the United States and Canada connected time 13 of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic games astatine Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena connected Feb. 19, 2026 successful Milan, Italy. (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

The White House did not instantly respond to a petition for remark connected the women’s squad turning down the invitation by Fox News Digital.

Flavor Flav’s archetypal societal media station said that helium would "do immoderate bully dinners and shows and bully times" with the team, portion hoping that "a edifice and airline" could assistance him retired to observe their accomplishments. He besides wanted to "invite my Bobsled + Skeleton squad too," which won a grounds six Olympic medals successful bobsled.

Meanwhile, the men’s hockey squad arrived successful Florida connected Monday hours aft winning their golden medal. They flew to Miami International Airport wherever the festivities would instantly begin. They are expected to beryllium astatine E11VEN MIAMI nightclub aboriginal Monday night. 

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"We’re gonna observe for a fewer days," Jack Hughes, who scored the game-winning extremity successful overtime connected Sunday successful Milan, told reporters astatine the airport.

Now, this isn’t the archetypal clip Flavor Flav wanted to observe an American athlete, having helped Olympian discus thrower Veronica Fraley wage her rent arsenic she struggled financially earlier representing the U.S. successful the 2024 Paris Olympics. 

"I gotchu, DM maine and I’ll nonstop outgo TODAY truthful you don’t person to interest bout it TOMORROW, and imma beryllium rooting for ya time LETZ GO!" Flavor Flav posted connected X nether her post.

Flavor Flav of Public Enemy performs during Innings Festival astatine Tempe Beach & Arts Park connected Feb. 22, 2026 successful Tempe, Arizona. (Tim Mosenfelder/WireImage)

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While Flavor Flav got the shot rolling connected that for Fraley, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, the hubby of tennis large Serena Williams, besides pitched successful to help, posting a receipt for implicit $7,000 sent to Fraley. Flavor Flav claimed that, due to the fact that 10 cardinal radical saw her tweet, her rent was "paid disconnected for the year."

As for the women's hockey team, they caput backmost location with immoderate acceptable to get backmost into their pro careers, with the Professional Women's Hockey League resuming its docket connected Thursday night. The NHL volition statesman games connected Wednesday nighttime for the 2nd fractional of the season. 

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