Team USA goalie admits players 'should have reacted differently' to Trump's quip about women's team

President Donald Trump’s telephone telephone to the United States men's Olympic hockey squad garnered contention aft laughter followed a notation of the women’s team.

While connected the telephone with the squad aft they won gold, Trump said helium would "have" to invitation the women’s team, which besides bushed Canada to triumph the Olympics, to Tuesday’s State of the Union — otherwise, helium "probably would beryllium impeached."

The quip drummed up immoderate laughter successful the locker room, which Team USA backup goalie Jeremy Swayman seemed to regret.

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Goaltender Jeremy Swayman of the United States during the Ice Hockey Men's Preliminary Round Group C crippled betwixt the USA and Denmark connected time 8 of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games astatine Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena connected Feb. 14, 2026 successful Milan, Italy.  (Jean Catuffe/Getty Images)

"We should person reacted differently," Swayman told reporters Wednesday erstwhile asked astir the telephone call.

Members of the men's team, including Jack and Quinn Hughes, made it a constituent to notation that the teams celebrated and supported each different passim the Olympics. 

Swayman, too, hammered location the point.

"We cognize that we are truthful excited for the women’s team. We person truthful overmuch respect for the women’s team. To stock that golden medal with them is thing we’re everlastingly grateful for," helium said.

The women's squad declined an invitation to Washington, D.C., citing scheduling conflicts. But Trump announced that they volition sojourn the White House successful owed time.

Jack Hughes told reporters aft the crippled that the archetypal happening helium thought astir erstwhile the puck went successful was Megan Keller, who scored the aureate extremity for the United States women's squad against Canada 3 days earlier.

Gold medalist Jeremy Swayman of Team United States celebrates pursuing the Men's Gold Medal lucifer betwixt Canada and the United States connected time 16 of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games astatine Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena connected Feb. 22, 2026, successful Milan, Italy.  (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images)

Hughes' brother, Quinn, who scored an overtime extremity against Sweden past week, said it was "amazing to walk immoderate time" with the women's squad successful the Olympic village.

The brothers’ mother, Ellen, a erstwhile Team USA subordinate and existent subordinate improvement unit member, did not look bothered by Trump’s comments.

"These players, some the men and women, tin bring truthful overmuch unity to a radical and to a country," she told "Today." "People that cheered connected that don’t ticker hockey, radical that person authorities connected 1 broadside oregon connected the different side, and that’s each some the men’s squad and the women’s squad attraction about.

Jeremy Swayman of Team USA looks connected during the Men's Preliminary Group C lucifer betwixt the United States and Denmark connected time 8 of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games astatine Milano Santagiulia Ice Hockey Arena connected Feb. 14, 2026, successful Milan, Italy.  (Catherine Steenkeste/Getty Images)

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"If you could spot what we spot from the inside, and the men and women sharing, you know, dorm rooms and halls and flex floors and the camaraderie and the synergy and the mode the women cheered connected the men and the mode the men cheered connected the women — that’s what it’s each about," she continued. "And the different things they cannot control. They attraction astir humanity. They attraction astir unity, and they attraction astir the country."

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