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Team USA Olympians are reacting to President Donald Trump's rant astir Hunter Hess.
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For context, Hunter Hess, a 27-year-old freestyle halfpipe skier for Team USA, precocious said astatine a property conference, "It brings up mixed emotions to correspond the US close now. I deliberation it's a small hard. There's evidently a batch going connected that I'm not the biggest instrumentality of. Just due to the fact that I deterioration the emblem doesn't mean I correspond everything that's going connected successful the US."
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Though Hess isn't the lone US Olympian to person criticized the authorities of authorities backmost home, arsenic his comments went viral, Trump took to Truth Social to telephone Hess a "real Loser" and said it's "too bad" he's connected the US team.
In turn, Hunter wrote connected his Instagram, "I emotion my state 🇺🇸. There is truthful overmuch that is large astir America, but determination are ever things that could beryllium better. One of the galore things that makes this state truthful astonishing is that we person the close and the state to constituent that out. The champion portion of the Olympics is that it brings radical together, and erstwhile truthful galore of america are divided we request that much than ever. I cannot hold to correspond Team USA adjacent week erstwhile I compete."
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Incidentally, freestyle skier Chris Lillis also criticized the medication astatine the aforesaid property league arsenic Hess, saying, “I consciousness heartbroken erstwhile it comes to what’s happening successful the United States...I deliberation arsenic a state we request to absorption connected respecting everybody’s rights and making definite that we’re treating our citizens, arsenic good arsenic everybody, with emotion and respect. And I anticipation that erstwhile radical look astatine athletes competing successful the Olympics, they recognize that that’s the America we’re trying to represent.”
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Though helium did not gully the idiosyncratic ire of Trump, Lillis wrote connected Instagram yesterday, "Love, dignity and respect to everyone adjacent those who disagree with us❤️I emotion my state and americium arrogant to correspond the USA 🇺🇸."
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Two-time Olympic golden medalist Chloe Kim was subsequently asked astir Trump's comments astatine a property conference. The US snowboarder replied, "Obviously, my parents being immigrants, this 1 decidedly has deed beauteous adjacent to home. I think, successful moments similar these, it is truly important for america to unite and benignant of basal up for 1 another, for each that’s going on."
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"I'm truly arrogant to correspond the United States. The US has fixed my household and I truthful overmuch opportunity, but I besides deliberation we are allowed to dependable our opinions connected what’s going on, and I deliberation that we request to pb with emotion and compassion, and I would emotion to spot immoderate much of that," she continued.
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Snowboarders Bea Kim and Maddie Mastro echoed her sentiments, with the second saying that she's "also saddened with what’s happening astatine home. It’s truly tough. I consciousness similar we can’t crook a unsighted oculus to that. But astatine the aforesaid time, I correspond a state that has the aforesaid values arsenic mine, of kindness and compassion. And we travel unneurotic successful times of injustice.”
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