{"id":2573565,"date":"2026-02-25T13:40:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T18:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/critics-of-olympians-at-state-of-the-union-are-whole-bowl-of-wrong-joe-concha\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T13:43:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T18:43:27","slug":"critics-of-olympians-at-state-of-the-union-are-whole-bowl-of-wrong-joe-concha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/critics-of-olympians-at-state-of-the-union-are-whole-bowl-of-wrong-joe-concha\/","title":{"rendered":"Critics of Olympians at State of the Union are &#8216;whole bowl of wrong&#8217;: Joe Concha"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fcritics-of-olympians-at-state-of-the-union-are-whole-bowl-of-wrong-joe-concha%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=2573565&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>Teh Washington Examiner piece centers on the U.S.men\u2019s Olympic hockey team\u2019s appearance at Donald Trump\u2019s State of the Union after they clinched gold with a 2-1 overtime win over Canada. Senior writer Joe Concha rebuffs critics who labeled the visit as propaganda or \u201cmiserable\u201d online and on television, arguing that the players\u2019 appearance represented a proud national moment. He notes backlash from some figures, including a former Biden official, but recalls a Bush-era example to suggest moments of national celebration can unite people regardless of politics. The article also highlights broader support for Team USA, including praise for the women\u2019s team for perhaps visiting the white House, and a Baltimore restaurant\u2019s pledge to reward the teams with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/restaurant-offers-free-crab-cakes-to-us-olympic-hockey-teams\/\" title=\"Restaurant offers free crab cakes to US Olympic ... ...\">free crab cakes<\/a> for life.Concha characterizes the online criticism as \u201cratioed\u201d and frames the men\u2019s and women\u2019s victories\u20142-1 in overtime for the men\u2014as a historic achievement reminiscent of the Miracle on Ice.  <\/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\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Critics of Olympians at State of the Union are &lsquo;whole bowl of wrong&rsquo;: Joe Concha<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2515949\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><em>Washington Examiner<\/em> senior writer <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/in_focus\/4468086\/usa-mens-gold-medal-hockey-win-somehow-becomes-a-political-football\/\">Joe Concha<\/a> rebuffed the &ldquo;miserable people&rdquo; complaining that the United States men&rsquo;s Olympic hockey team <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4469196\/us-men-olympic-hockey-team-attend-trump-state-of-the-union\/\">attended the State of the Union<\/a> Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4469820\/big-guys-trump-hosts-us-olympic-hockey-team-state-of-the-union\/\">President Donald Trump hosted the U.S. men&rsquo;s Olympic hockey team<\/a> on Tuesday after the team scored <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/sports\/4466849\/us-canada-overtime-hockey-gold-medal\/\">a 2-1 victory over Canada<\/a> to win the gold. The team received a resounding welcome at the State of the Union, though Concha said they were &ldquo;being attacked&rdquo; by some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/facebook-executives-admit-meddling-with-election-backing-biden\/\" title=\"Facebook executives admit meddling with election, backing Biden\">people online<\/a> and on television networks for visiting Trump, noting one former Biden administration official called them &ldquo;political props.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/4471487\/trump-promise-financial-relief-face-history-midterms-byron-york\/\">Trump&#8217;s promise of financial relief must face &#8216;history&#8217; of midterms: Byron York<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/4471286\/jimmy-kimmel-carps-trump-record-breaking-state-of-the-union\/\">Jimmy Kimmel carps over Trump&#8217;s record-breaking State of the Union: &#8216;Play him off&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/4469586\/melania-trump-wears-dolce-gabbana-2026-state-of-the-union\/\">Melania Trump wears Dolce &amp; Gabbana to 2026 State of the Union<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;But here&rsquo;s the thing: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meet-the-american-hockey-players-who-are-trying-to-win-olympic-gold-for-communist-china\/\" title=\"Meet the American ... Players Who Are Trying to Win Olympic Gold \u2014 for Communist China\">hockey players<\/a> are just built differently,&rdquo; Concha said on Fox News&rsquo;s <em>Fox &amp; Friends First<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;My brother worked for the New Jersey Devils, I got to know many of them, I got to see them win three Stanley cups back in the day, and you can see then and now that they&rsquo;re not going to let these <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >miserable people ruin<\/a> what was one of the great moments for the United States in Olympic history, and good for them.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share?id=3395050&amp;userid=11311&amp;usertype=user&amp;loginid=9421&amp;playercolor=%23000000&amp;playersize=auto&amp;code=b60b1fef2032e6c6c32c553886fb3579\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;And also, good for the women&rsquo;s team, by the way, [for] accepting an invitation to visit the White House so there&rsquo;s no controversy there whatsoever as well,&rdquo; Concha said.<\/p>\n<p>Concha recalled how <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NjGcCI9ByWw\">former President George W. Bush threw the first pitch in a World Series game<\/a> in October 2001, a month after <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/september-11-terrorist-attacks\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"586\">9\/11<\/a>. The whole stadium &ldquo;cheered and chanted U-S-A,&rdquo; and attendees &ldquo;came together&rdquo; regardless of the president&rsquo;s political affiliation.<\/p>\n<p>Concha concluded that it&rsquo;s &ldquo;a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/charlamagne-tha-god-worries-harris-doesnt-like-to-explain-herself-needs-to-answer-questions-from-black-people-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Charlamagne tha God worries Harris \u2018doesn\u2019t like\u2019 to explain herself: \u2018Needs to answer questions from black people\u2019 - Washington Examiner\">good thing&#038;rdquo<\/a>; outlets and opinion pieces criticizing the Olympic team&rsquo;s visit to the address are getting &ldquo;absolutely ratioed online.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But the fact they&rsquo;re [opinion pieces] even being written at this point and taking these wonder athletes, men&rsquo;s hockey and women&rsquo;s hockey, and turning this into a controversy is just a whole bowl of wrong, guys,&rdquo; Concha said.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/columnists\/4467971\/team-usa-heroics-for-all-of-us\/\"><strong>TEAM USA&rsquo;S GOLDEN HEROICS ARE FOR ALL OF US<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jimmy&rsquo;s Famous Seafood, a restaurant in Baltimore, Maryland, went viral on Sunday when <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/sports\/4467614\/maryland-restaurant-free-crabcakes-olympic-hockey\/\">it told the <em>Huffington Post<\/em> to &ldquo;go f*** yourself&rdquo; on X<\/a> after the outlet published an article suggesting that chanting &ldquo;U-S-A&rdquo; or waving the U.S. flag is a turn-off. The restaurant is also giving the men&rsquo;s and women&rsquo;s hockey teams free crab cakes for life for bringing home the gold.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Both teams emerged victorious in overtime during a match ending in 2-1, with the men&rsquo;s victory marking the U.S.&rsquo;s first in this sport since the 1980 <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wPVJDJ7SIw0\">Miracle on Ice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concha: Olympians&#8217; SOTU appearance isn&#8217;t wrong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2632,"featured_media":2573566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AP26056101607610-e1772038422221.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[73764,4188,17678,5894,73673],"class_list":["post-2573565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-joe-concha-2","tag-media","tag-olympians","tag-politics","tag-state-of-the-union-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/AP26056101607610-e1772038422221.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573565","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\/2632"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2573565"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2573569,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573565\/revisions\/2573569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2573566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2573565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2573565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2573565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}