U.S. President also invited Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to join a meeting of American governors with hopes Canada will be the 51st state
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Team USA received a call from the Commander in Chief on Thursday morning.
President Donald Trump posted on his Truth Social account on Thursday morning that he plans to give members of the United States hockey team a call before it faces off against Team Canada in the final of the 4 Nations Face-Off being held Thursday at 8 p.m. at the TD Garden in Boston.
USA Hockey posted a picture on its social media account X on Thursday morning the group listening to a call from Trump before holding an optional morning skate.
Trump also noted that someday he is hopeful that the two foes will be teammates because he hasn’t let up on a continued campaign to try to get Canada to join the United States.
“I’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,” Trump wrote.
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I’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. I will be speaking…
He added that he will be meeting with governors of the United States in Washington, which is why he won’t be attending the game, but invited Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — who Trump mockingly called “Governor Trudeau” to join the discussions.
“I will be speaking before the Governors tonight in D.C., and will sadly, therefore, (will) be unable to attend. But we will all be watching, and if Governor Trudeau would like to join us, he would be most welcome,” Trump added. “Good luck to everybody, and have a GREAT game tonight. So exciting!”
Speaking on Fox News earlier this week, American general manager Bill Guerin invited Trump to attend the game if he could.
The American players appreciated the call from Trump.
“It was so awesome to get his support,” said Rangers forward J.T. Miller following the morning skate. “It’s a pretty big deal for him to take time out of his schedule to talk to us for five minutes
“It’s just another one of those things where we’re kind of pinching ourselves this tournament.”
Trump has galvanized Canadians with this kind of talk.
Despite public address announcer Michel Lacroix’s best efforts to ask the faithful to show respect for both anthems, The Star-Spangled Banner and O Canada were performed before the United States took on host Canada in a sold-out arena on Saturday night in Montreal.
All this came on Flag Day in Canada as the Maple Leaf celebrated its 60th anniversary. The atmosphere in the arena was wild because fans were handed Canadian flags to wave when they came in the door and that just further fueled the pride in this country.
Trudeau was in the house to witness first-hand as hockey fans from his country booed the U.S. anthem for the second straight game. There were also loud jeers before the U.S. team played its opener against Finland on Thursday.
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