{"id":13116,"date":"2026-02-24T23:49:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T23:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=13116"},"modified":"2026-02-24T23:49:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T23:49:25","slug":"team-usa-womens-hockey-team-refuse-white-house-invite-following-trumps-controversial-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=13116","title":{"rendered":"Team USA women\u2019s hockey team refuse White House invite following Trump\u2019s controversial remark"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Donald Trump congratulated the U.S. men\u2019s Olympic hockey team after their gold-medal win over Canada, but a remark he made about the women\u2019s team quickly sparked debate. The U.S. women\u2019s squad \u2014 also gold medalists \u2014 declined a White House invitation to attend the State of the Union, citing prior commitments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During a call with the men\u2019s team, Trump joked that he would \u201chave to\u201d invite the women as well or risk being impeached. Some critics called the comment disrespectful, while others viewed it as humor. The women\u2019s team later said they were grateful for the invitation and appreciated the recognition of their achievement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump congratulated the U.S. men\u2019s Olympic hockey team after their gold-medal win over Canada, but a remark he made about the women\u2019s team quickly sparked debate. The U.S. women\u2019s squad \u2014 also gold medalists \u2014 declined a White House invitation to attend the State of the Union, citing prior commitments. During a call with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":13117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}