{"id":66838,"date":"2026-02-20T09:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/us-skier-hess-describes-hardest-weeks-of-my-life-after-trumps-real-loser-comment\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T09:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:59:07","slug":"us-skier-hess-describes-hardest-weeks-of-my-life-after-trumps-real-loser-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/us-skier-hess-describes-hardest-weeks-of-my-life-after-trumps-real-loser-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"US skier Hess describes \u2018hardest weeks of my life\u2019 after Trump\u2019s \u2018real loser\u2019 comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>American halfpipe competitor says he has no regrets<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>\u2018I\u2019m not going to let controversy like that get in my way\u2019<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the start of these Winter Olympics, Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/08\/donald-trump-hunter-hess-olympics\">called Hunter Hess a \u201creal loser\u201d<\/a> after the US skiing star admitted he had mixed feelings about representing his country. As he swooped down the halfpipe in Livigno on Friday, Hess delivered his response, flashing an L-sign with his hand after qualifying for Friday night\u2019s final.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApparently I am a loser,\u201d Hess said when asked about his gesture. \u201cI am leaning into it.\u201d And asked whether he had any regrets, Hess was just as firm. \u201cI stick with what I said,\u201d he replied.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/20\/us-skier-hunter-hess-donald-trump-real-loser-comment-winter-olympics\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American halfpipe competitor says he has no regrets \u2018I\u2019m not going to let controversy like that get in my way\u2019 At the start of these Winter Olympics, Donald Trump called Hunter Hess a \u201creal loser\u201d after the US skiing star admitted he had mixed feelings about representing his country. As he swooped down the halfpipe &#8230; <a title=\"US skier Hess describes \u2018hardest weeks of my life\u2019 after Trump\u2019s \u2018real loser\u2019 comment\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/us-skier-hess-describes-hardest-weeks-of-my-life-after-trumps-real-loser-comment\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US skier Hess describes \u2018hardest weeks of my life\u2019 after Trump\u2019s \u2018real loser\u2019 comment\">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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66838","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=66838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}