Key Highlights
- (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/ North America/TNS)Dave Hyde, South Florida Sun-SentinelSun, March 1, 2026 at 2:27 AM UTC·4 min readNow that the dust has settled, and the emotions calmed, everyone can discuss the U. S.
- Olympians’ dramatic wins and tainted celebrations with proper perspective. But you know what?It still stinks, right to the end of celebrations this past week, when the official White House Tik-Tok account used artificial intelligence to transform American (and Ottawa Senators) center Brady Tkachuk into some Canadian-hating caricature of this administration’s imagination. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement“They booed our national anthem, so I had to come out and teach those maple-syrup-eating f---- a lesson,” Tkachuk is made to say on White House’s social-media account. If 12 million viewers were surprised he said this, imagine how Tkachuk felt.“I’m not in control of those accounts,” he said.
- “I know those words would never come out of my mouth.”It’s the oddest of times in America when our athletes are left to explain the wayward conduct of America’s leaders.
- They tried, too.
- They said the FBI director Kash Patel’s beer-chugging in the middle of the men’s team celebration was him bing, “just one of the boys,” though by Friday even President Donald Trump expressed disappointment over that behavior. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementThe president put the men’s team in another mess with his congratulatory, post-game phone call.
