{"id":30990,"date":"2026-08-07T10:47:43","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=30990"},"modified":"2026-08-07T10:47:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:47:43","slug":"trump-heaps-praise-on-120-olympic-paralympic-athletes-at-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=30990","title":{"rendered":"Trump heaps praise on 120 Olympic, Paralympic athletes at White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2026\/08\/06\/Trump_41381_s1440x960.jpg?f72536d07237fdd262042ae8f5e6e6de3b865f3c\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The evening event included athletes who competed for Team USA in figure skating, curling, luge, speed skating, bobsledding, snowboarding, and alpine skiing, among other sports at the games held in Milan and Cortina.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be the best in the world, I guess you get up early in the morning \u2026 It\u2019s really something, and they were early mornings,\u201d Mr. Trump said of the athletes who joined him in the East Room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey did it for the highest privilege in all the sports, wearing the red, white and blue while representing those three proud letters on their uniform. It\u2019s called U-S-A.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump singled out several athletes in attendance, including speedskater Jordan Stolz, who hung his gold medal around Mr. Trump\u2019s neck at a June Trump rally in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Abbey Murphy and Joy Dunne, members of the gold-winning U.S. women\u2019s hockey team, were mentioned by Mr. Trump and shook hands with the president.<\/p>\n<p>In February, the women\u2019s hockey team turned down Mr. Trump\u2019s offer to attend his State of the Union address collectively, citing prior scheduling obligations.<\/p>\n<p>The invitation came after Mr. Trump phoned the men\u2019s team after their gold-medal game victory over Canada and joked that he \u201cprobably would be impeached\u201d if he did not also invite the women\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<aside>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Members of the men\u2019s team, however, attended the speech and met with the president in the Oval Office in February, but were not at the event Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>He also singled out Team USA\u2019s Paralympic men\u2019s sled-hockey team, who brought home their fifth straight gold medal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNobody\u2019s ever done anything like it \u2026 You are really an inspiration, and thank you very much. It\u2019s an amazing, amazing achievement that we\u2019ll never forget,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>About 40% of America\u2019s 2026 winter-games athletes joined Mr. Trump to receive accolades from him.<\/p>\n<p>The president ticked off the record number of medals Team USA won this past Winter Olympics, which included 232 athletes, the biggest U.S. squad ever.<\/p>\n<p>Team USA won 33 medals, including 12 golds, the most U.S. golds in one Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, 72 Team USA Paralympians earned 24 medals, including 13 golds, matching the team\u2019s highest number in the last 20 years at a single games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the highest pleasures of the presidency is to be able to support our nation\u2019s best athletes, and that\u2019s what they are,\u201d Mr. Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>                        <a name=\"pagebreak\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd to celebrate the champions of Team USA under the Trump administration, we\u2019re doing everything we can to protect the cherished sporting traditions that have long been part of our nation from the beginning, right from the beginning,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<section class=\"author-contact-section\">\n<\/section><\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The evening event included athletes who competed for Team USA in figure skating, curling, luge, speed skating, bobsledding, snowboarding, and alpine skiing, among other sports at the games held in Milan and Cortina. \u201cTo be the best in the world, I guess you get up early in the morning \u2026 It\u2019s really something, and they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/twt-thumbs.washtimes.com\/media\/image\/2026\/08\/06\/Trump_41381_c0-210-5047-3154_s1200x700.jpg?842ccc8cf5d6047f751537752dbd0540f0f40690","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-hub"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}