{"id":65764,"date":"2026-02-08T15:55:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T20:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/08\/trump-calls-hunter-hess-a-real-loser-for-skiers-ambivalence-about-representing-us\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T15:55:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T20:55:45","slug":"trump-calls-hunter-hess-a-real-loser-for-skiers-ambivalence-about-representing-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/08\/trump-calls-hunter-hess-a-real-loser-for-skiers-ambivalence-about-representing-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump calls Hunter Hess \u2018a real loser\u2019 for skier\u2019s ambivalence about representing US"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>US president attacks freestyle skier in post<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Hess had said representing the US was \u2018a little hard\u2019<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald Trump responded to Hunter Hess on Truth Social on Sunday, calling the Olympian a \u201creal loser\u201d and criticizing comments the US freestyle skier made in a press conference days earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Hess was asked in a press conference on Wednesday what it was like to represent the US in the Olympics given the current situation in the country, which has included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/04\/trump-minnesota-ice-immigration\">ICE raids in Minnesota<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/feb\/06\/western-europeans-turning-against-us-after-greenland-threat-poll-finds\">a number of geopolitical crises<\/a>. Hess said representing the US at the 2026 Winter Olympics brought up \u201cmixed emotions\u201d and that it was \u201ca little hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/08\/donald-trump-hunter-hess-olympics\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US president attacks freestyle skier in post Hess had said representing the US was \u2018a little hard\u2019 Donald Trump responded to Hunter Hess on Truth Social on Sunday, calling the Olympian a \u201creal loser\u201d and criticizing comments the US freestyle skier made in a press conference days earlier. Hess was asked in a press conference &#8230; <a title=\"Trump calls Hunter Hess \u2018a real loser\u2019 for skier\u2019s ambivalence about representing US\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/08\/trump-calls-hunter-hess-a-real-loser-for-skiers-ambivalence-about-representing-us\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump calls Hunter Hess \u2018a real loser\u2019 for skier\u2019s ambivalence about representing US\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}