{"id":2404730,"date":"2025-02-20T14:15:02","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T19:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-gets-involved-ahead-of-epic-usa-vs-canada-championship-hockey-game\/"},"modified":"2025-02-20T14:15:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T19:15:57","slug":"trump-gets-involved-ahead-of-epic-usa-vs-canada-championship-hockey-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-gets-involved-ahead-of-epic-usa-vs-canada-championship-hockey-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Gets Involved Ahead of Epic USA vs. Canada Championship Hockey Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-gets-involved-ahead-of-epic-usa-vs-canada-championship-hockey-game%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2404730&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses President Donald Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-walz-plans-on-waking-up-on-nov-6-with-madam-president-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Tim Walz plans on \u2018waking up on Nov. 6 with Madam ...\u2019 - Washington Examiner\">light-hearted jabs<\/a> at Canada while supporting the U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-hollywood-celebrities-hawk-safety-seal-for-buildings-check-out-the-tiny-disclaimer-at-the-very-end\/\" title=\"WATCH: Hollywood Celebrities Hawk \u2018Safety Seal\u2019 For Buildings. Check Out The Tiny Disclaimer At The Very End.\">hockey team<\/a> in\u2062 the finals of the 4 Nations Face-Off, an ice hockey tournament featuring teams from Canada, the U.S., Finland, and \u2064Sweden. Ahead of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-white-sox-and-cleveland-guardians-players-break-out-in-brawl\/\" title=\"White Sox and Guardians players engage in brawl.\">highly anticipated game<\/a>, Trump tweeted about the possibility \u200bof Canada becoming\u200d the &#8220;51st state,&#8221; a playful reference that did not sit well with some Canadians. \u200d <\/p>\n<p>The game itself was marked\u2062 by tension, starting with Montreal fans booing \u2064the U.S. national \u2064anthem and various on-ice fights. Trump expressed his support for\u2064 Team \u200dUSA in a phone call, encouraging them to enjoy \u200cthe game and take pride in\u200d representing the country.The players appreciated Trump&#8217;s gesture, highlighting the significance of having the president reach out to them. The article captures Trump&#8217;s trademark bravado and the spirited rivalry between the U.S. and Canada in sports.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump tweaked Canada Thursday while cheering on Team USA as Thursday night&rsquo;s grudge rematch loomed in the finals of the 4 Nations Face-Off.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/canadian-fans-boo-us-anthem-team-usa-takes-canadian-players-soon-puck-drops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">4 Nations Face-Off<\/a>, a four<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">-team ice hockey tournament run<\/a> by the NHL, includes Canada, the United States, Finland, and Sweden.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, the United States defeated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trumps-canada-statehood-joke-catching-even-investor-reality-star-floats-idea-new-relationship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canada<\/a> 3-1, allowing the U.S. to reach the Thursday night final.<\/p>\n<p>The game got off to an antagonistic start when Montreal fans booed &ldquo;The Star-Spangled Banner,&rdquo; followed by a series of on-ice fights that set the tone for the game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Trump reiterates Canada will be a 51st state: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1f8ZgqIgy9\">pic.twitter.com\/1f8ZgqIgy9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; unusual_whales (@unusual_whales) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unusual_whales\/status\/1892615348945604979?\">February 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-makes-trudeau-humiliating-offer-just-take-canada-get-governor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump<\/a> continued his reference to Canada as a possible 51st state, a long-running jab that has been less than amusing to Canadians.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll be calling our GREAT American Hockey Team this morning to spur them on towards victory tonight against Canada, which with FAR LOWER TAXES AND MUCH STRONGER SECURITY, will someday, maybe soon, become our cherished, and very important, Fifty First State,&rdquo; Trump wrote in a post on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/114036421460956478\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I can&rsquo;t even begin to tell you how much everything said here angers me.<\/p>\n<p>We will NEVER be the 51st state.<\/p>\n<p>STOP calling PRIME MINISTER Justin Trudeau &ldquo;governor&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>We need security from the US only!<\/p>\n<p>I hope Canada beats the US 20-0 for this message alone!!!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/4Nations?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#4Nations<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e7KAGJwKJN\">pic.twitter.com\/e7KAGJwKJN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jen (ESC) &#127464;&#127462;&#10084;&#65039;&#129419; (@Smil3yAngel) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Smil3yAngel\/status\/1892623309981794627?\">February 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I will be speaking before the Governors tonight in D.C., and will sadly, therefore, be unable to attend. But we will all be watching, and if Governor Trudeau would like to join us, he would be most welcome,&rdquo; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Good luck to everybody, and have a GREAT game tonight. So exciting!&rdquo; Trump wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Team USA received a call from the President this morning to wish them luck ahead of tonight&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/4Nations?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#4Nations<\/a> championship game. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/he1kIgUVGW\">pic.twitter.com\/he1kIgUVGW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; USA Hockey (@usahockey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usahockey\/status\/1892599748692971955?\">February 20, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Trump spoke to the team for about five minutes Thursday morning, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/trump-wishes-team-usa-good-luck-ahead-of-4-nations-final-1.2254803\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TSN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It was cool, right? It&rsquo;s the president of the United States,&rdquo; defenseman Brock Faber said. &ldquo;When you&rsquo;re a kid, you don&rsquo;t really think that that&rsquo;s ever going to be a possibility, but it&rsquo;s really cool.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Faber said Trump told the players, &ldquo;Just have fun, enjoy it. It was pretty quick, but just enjoy the pride of wearing the red, white and blue.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It was pretty cool. So awesome to hear the support,&rdquo; forward J.T. Miller said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-to-make-china-pay\/\" title=\"How to Make China Pay\">pretty big deal<\/a> for him to take time out of his schedule to talk to us for five minutes, and just another one of those things where we&rsquo;re kind of pinching ourselves this tournament,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s been really fun so far, and seeing the support from everybody up to the president, it&rsquo;s been pretty wild,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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This ice hockey tournament, organized by the NHL, features four teams: Canada, the United States, Finland, and Sweden. The U.S. secured a spot in the final after beating Canada 3-1 on Saturday. The game began with tension as Montreal fans booed &#8220;The Star-Spangled Banner,&#8221; leading to several fights on the ice.<\/p>\n<p>Trump continued his long-standing joke about Canada potentially becoming the 51st state, which has not been well-received by Canadians. In a post he shared, he expressed his excitement for Team USA and mentioned that with &#8220;much lower taxes and stronger security,&#8221; Canada might one day become part of the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>In response to Trump&#8217;s comments, many Canadians expressed their frustration online. One user emphasized that they would never want to be considered a state and criticized Trump for referring to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as &#8220;governor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite being unable to attend due to an event in D.C., Trump reached out to wish Team USA good luck before their championship game. Players were excited about receiving a call from him; defenseman Brock Faber noted it was cool speaking with the President and encouraged teammates to enjoy representing their country during this significant match<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2404731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Trump-and-USA-Hockey.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[3957,13659,7286,3634,14541],"class_list":["post-2404730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-canada","tag-championship","tag-hockey","tag-trump","tag-usa"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Trump-and-USA-Hockey.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2404730"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2404734,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404730\/revisions\/2404734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2404731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2404730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2404730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2404730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}