The US men's hockey team - yeah, that one - got home safely yesterday afternoon to a well-deserved heroes' welcome, only in Miami instead of New York thanks to the recent unpleasant but very hockey-ish weather.
🏒🇺🇸 Team USA’s men’s hockey heroes just arrived in Miami and received a water-salute welcome after bringing home Olympic gold.🥇🇺🇸
— David J Harris Jr (@DavidJHarrisJr) February 23, 2026
Epic.🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/iZm78Rkcnh
Our boys made the rounds there.
The only thing that warms my heart more than seeing how much the USA hockey team ostentatiously loves America is how angry it’s making Progressives that they do
— Enguerrand VII de Coucy (@ingelramdecoucy) February 24, 2026
Libs aren’t beating the “libs hate America” charges anytime soon https://t.co/msOTBUIJpb
I mean, not many nightclubs anywhere have a rousing rendition of The Star Spangled Banner break out, let alone one led by gold medal heroes. Pretty dang cool.
And they might have gotten some sleep before climbing aboard what I've heard was an Air Force administration jet to head to Washington, D.C., for an Oval Office date and then for their State of the Union attendance.
New Secretary of DEFENSE just dropped 👍
— Brick Suit (@Brick_Suit) February 24, 2026
US Olympic goalie Connor Hellebuyck has been appointed to the position 🇺🇲 pic.twitter.com/nfllkNZ12z
Appreciative troops at Andrews Air Force Base lined the fences in anticipation of meeting the victorious American ice warriors and the team responded like the awesome fellows they are. So much for going straight to the bus.
🚨 NOW: Members of the US hockey team took the time to walk over and take pictures with US troops after their arrival at Joint Base Andrews in DC
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) February 24, 2026
Two different types of patriots supporting each other.
Love this! 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/WF8Yyfc7Uf
These young guys have been nothing short of gracious, rambunctious, and hilarious in their unbounded enthusiasm and red, white, and blue patriotism above all else, even as the American press sharpened their blades against them, and I do not mean the kind under ice skates.
You see, during the phone call immediately following their victory, President Trump had invited the team to the SOTU, and jokingly added, 'I'll guess we have to invite the women's team, too.' I took it in the same spirit as if any Dad had said, 'And I guess we have to get your sister a ticket.' Of course, the gold medal-winning women were invited.
I am not the only one who thought nothing of it.
Okay, finally had chance to listen to Trump's call to USA Men's Hockey team & OMgosh, women are actually taking to fainting couches over that? Trump's "you know I'm going to have to invite the women," came off as a "tease" along the lines of "girls have cooties" to the "boys." pic.twitter.com/qDPIrVxCx4
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) February 24, 2026
This was just what the American press had been waiting for. The attack opening that the HuffPo's timid 'Aren't you tired of all the flag waving?' had signaled was in the offing.
GLOOM, DESPAIR, MISOGYNY ON ME
DEEP DARK DEPRESSION, UTTER MISERY
That's what broke out, and man, the frustrated, angry, foot-stomping, slashing on our heroes began.
They're not AWFLs for no reason, you know...#JustSayin
— tree hugging sister 🎃 (@WelbornBeege) February 24, 2026
Ex-WaPo AWFLs
She’s also sharing the Caitlin Clark era viewership. Before CC, viewership was less than half and well below NHL.
— Founding Father🇺🇸👍 (@Real_2A) February 24, 2026
Now maybe Sally can tell us why all the other players hate CC.
Their motto:
APOLOGIZE FOR LAUGHING
“Apologize for laughing”: the perfect distillation of the modern left. https://t.co/FpaVAFLiDH
— Jon Gabriel (@exjon) February 24, 2026
Nah, you squeamish toad.
We are reveling in it.
This should have been the cover pic.twitter.com/auPjcixna5
— Michael Choe (@michaelschoe) February 24, 2026
Reading their miserable, angry bullpoo, we are ALL Quinn, rolling our eyes and tapping for another one just to get through the moment's crap.
Quinn preemptively ordering another beer while holding a half full one with another on the table.
— Chuck Bass (@ChuckFBass) February 23, 2026
Never felt more represented. pic.twitter.com/BYygCGIExi
Until we can get back to the best place. And being American.
WE'RE SO PROUD TO BE GOING
🚨 BREAKING: Team USA hockey star Jack Hughes REFUSES to cave to the leftist mob, says he's proud to go see President Trump at the White House
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 24, 2026
LFG! 🔥
"We're excited! Everything is so political. We're athletes, we're PROUD to represent the US. You get the chance to meet the… pic.twitter.com/pk2LwYU8Fa
They spread the cheer on the way to the Oval Office and got cheers back.
WE LOVE YOU!
BREAKING: TEAM USA Olympic Gold Medal MENS Hockey Team have arrived at The White House for a visit with President Donald J Trump!!! USA USA USA!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🥇🏅🥅🏒 pic.twitter.com/7iUihbzZki
— Michael Solakiewicz (@michaelsolakie) February 24, 2026
President Trump met them one by one and swore he knew everyone's name.
🔥 BREAKING: The White House just dropped an EPIC group photo of President Trump with the Team USA Men's Hockey gold medalists in the Oval Office
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 24, 2026
Trump LOVES welcoming these heroes home!
They'll even be at the State of the Union tonight. ENJOY THE MOMENT, PATRIOTS! 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/KDvlfhEjwm
We all just about do, too. I swear we do.
That also has to be causing no end of angst to the Leftists, being ignored and mockedin the middle of an emotional meltdown.
You know, the team has spent a lot of time in different videos with the late, magnificent Toby Keith's anthem Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue playing in the background, or outright singing those words with gusto in a lusty young male chorus.
I find it so ironic, because that song was also at the center of another politically correct battle involving a Canadian - Peter Jennings, to be precise. Keith was inspired to write it in answer to his veteran dad's death and then 9-11 attacks. In 2002, ABC asked him to sing it during a patriotic broadcast they were organizing, but the evening's host - Jennings - asked him to soften or rewrite the lyrics, or sing something else.
In the ensuing backlash, Jennings revealed he had become an American citizen, but much like the Californian who takes California with him to Boise or Austin, Jennings had brought Canada down with him when he moved.
Keith refused to appear at all. He wouldn't compromise, and he wouldn't cave.
The American men's hockey team never quit.
And they have never hemmed or hawed about what playing for that flag means to them.
Hey Uncle Sam, put your name at the top of his list
And the Statue of Liberty started shakin' her fist
And the eagle will fly it's gonna be hell
When you hear mother freedom start ringin' her bell
And it'll feel like the whole wide world is raining down on you
Oh, brought to you courtesy of the red white and blue
Even CBS's Tony Doukopil gets it.
ONLY IN AMERICA
WATCH: ‘CBS Evening News’ anchor @TonyDokoupil on how the gold-medal-winning men’s hockey team and their unabashed patriotism “rang some sort of a bell in America” that “gave people chills, goose bumps, made them cry even” and reminded us that, while “America is a complicated… pic.twitter.com/FrfoQMaaU9
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) February 24, 2026
“Only in America, a moment that called to mind a picture of this country that it turns out millions of us were missing. I'm talking of course about Sunday's USA hockey game. The men's team won its first Olympic gold and 46 years, beating Canada in overtime and, by now, you've seen the images of Jack Hughes, 24, Florida born who left blood on the ice quite literally before scoring the winning goal and telling a reporter through broken teeth, ‘this is all about our country right now. I love the USA.’ 5,000 miles away, those comments, as much as the win itself, rang some sort of a bell in America. It gave people chills, goose bumps, made them cry even. Countless masses took a social media to say exactly that and more. It was everything about this team. A bunch of guys who played Toby Keith in the locker room celebration, drank beers during the postgame press conference, cheers to you guys, even thanked the troops in another interview. Hughes was even patriotic in his commentary on American health care.”
“They were gracious in victory and big hearted too, bringing to the ice the children of a teammate who was killed 18 months ago by an alleged drunk driver. They were, in short, American and nothing about that fact seemed complicated for them, even though we're all grown ups and we know America is a complicated place. What they remind us is that it is also home and, therefore, easy to love.”
Courtesy of these red, white, and blue all-American AMERICANS, God bless their red, white, and blue hearts.
CHAMPIONS IN THE HOUSE 🦅🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/4yk7I9zqcs
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) February 24, 2026
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