President Trump Honors Crew USA Hockey At State of the Union Deal with

President Donald Trump simply launched the U.S. males’s hockey staff as his particular friends on the State of the Union handle on Tuesday — displaying the gold medal winners grinning from ear-to-ear.

They have been honored for about 5 minutes filled with applause, cheers and U-S-A chants that rang all through the Capital constructing. Trump congratulated them — and famous it was the primary time he noticed Democrats rise from their seats.

“Right here with us tonight is a gaggle of winners who simply made the complete nation proud,” he stated because the staff entered the Home chamber.

Trump additionally congratulated the U.S. ladies’s staff for its gold medal … saying they “quickly will probably be coming to the White Home.”

He then took a second to single out goalie Connor Hellebuyck — who he says the staff nominated to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. 

“Consider it 46 pictures on objective — and I ask him, ‘The one shot the place you place your stick within the again and it bounced off, did you apply that? Or was it slightly fortunate?’” Trump stated, playfully noting that Hellebuyck refused to reply the query.

POTUS made the promise simply minutes after the Crimson, White and Blue received the time beyond regulation thriller over Canada on Sunday … telling the blokes he’d like to have them expertise his speech in individual, whereas additionally joking he needed to invite the gold medal-winning ladies’s staff too, or he’d be impeached.

There was some controversy round Crew USA fanboying over Trump … however as Olympic hero Jack Hughes put it, their focus is on patriotism, not politics.

The backlash did not derail the squad from their festivities … which included a journey to E11EVEN in Miami earlier than hopping on an Air Pressure jet to get to the White Home for a tour.

The gang even had some one-on-one time with Trump within the Oval Workplace … however a number of gamers opted out of the journey altogether.