Jack Hughes' Mom, Ellen Hughes, Reacted To The Trump Women's Hockey Phone Call Controversy

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Ellen Weinberg-Hughes addressed President Donald J. Trump's comments astir the US Women's hockey team.

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For context, Ellen herself won a 1992 World Championship metallic medal (before women's crystal hockey made its Olympic debut). Since 2023, she's been a subordinate improvement advisor for the US women's hockey team. She's besides ma to 2 of the US men's team: Jack and Quinn Hughes.

Team USA women's crystal hockey players observe with golden medals connected the ice, posing energetically successful beforehand of cheering fans astatine an Olympic event

Both the women's and men's US teams won golden medals astatine this year's Olympics. After the latter's game, Trump called the men's squad to congratulate them and invitation them to the State of the Union. "I indispensable archer you, we’re going to person to bring the women’s team. You bash cognize that," Trump said arsenic the players laughed. "I bash judge I’d astir apt would beryllium impeached [if I don't invitation them], ok?" They laughed again. Trump does not look to person publically congratulated the women's team.

Man successful a suit stands successful a ceremonial mounting with U.S. flags successful the background, appearing contemplative

As footage of the telephone telephone garnered backlash, immoderate questioned the complicity of the Hughes brothers, fixed their mother's relation successful the women's team:

Tweet by idiosyncratic upset astir idiosyncratic giggling with Trump adjacent a women's hockey squad contempt their parent being a squad consultant

Tweet expressing beardown enactment for someone's mother, praising her contributions to a squad and suggesting she is formidable

The women's squad subsequently declined their invitation to the State of the Union, citing scheduling issues. In an interrogation with the Today show, Ellen was asked astir her effect to the telephone call. "At the extremity of the day, it's conscionable astir the country."

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"The infinitesimal that these players, some the men and women, tin bring truthful overmuch unity to a radical and to a country,” she continued. “People that cheered connected that don’t ticker hockey, radical that person authorities connected 1 broadside oregon connected the different side, and that’s each some the men’s squad and the women’s squad attraction about."

Two crystal hockey players successful USA jerseys observe with golden medals and a draped American emblem astatine the Olympics

“If you could spot what we spot from the inside, and the men and women sharing, you know, dorm rooms and halls and flex floors and the camaraderie and the synergy and the mode the women cheered connected the men and the mode the men cheered connected the women — that’s what it’s each about," she added. "And the different things they cannot control. They attraction astir humanity. They attraction astir unity and they attraction astir the country.”

Four men observe a sports victory, wearing casual covering and USA-themed accessories, holding medals and champagne bottles

Her lad Jack besides addressed the contention successful a abstracted interview, saying that helium was "excited" to conscionable Trump. "Everyone is giving america backlash for each the societal media worldly today. It's truthful negative. People are truthful antagonistic retired determination and they're conscionable trying to find a crushed to enactment radical down and marque thing retired of astir nothing," helium said.

Athlete astatine Olympics wearing USA jersey and golden medal, smiling portion adjusting skates. Excited assemblage successful background

You tin ticker the afloat interrogation with Ellen here.

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