{"id":67337,"date":"2026-02-25T18:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/us-hockey-star-hilary-knight-responds-to-trumps-distasteful-joke-about-womens-team\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T18:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:02:09","slug":"us-hockey-star-hilary-knight-responds-to-trumps-distasteful-joke-about-womens-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/us-hockey-star-hilary-knight-responds-to-trumps-distasteful-joke-about-womens-team\/","title":{"rendered":"US hockey star Hilary Knight responds to Trump\u2019s \u2018distasteful joke\u2019 about women\u2019s team"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Captain says controversy overshadows Olympic gold win<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Trump quipped about inviting US women to White House<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Knight says there is respect and support with men\u2019s team<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hilary Knight, the captain of the US women\u2019s ice hockey team, has responded to comments made by Donald Trump after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2026\/feb\/19\/winter-olympics-womens-ice-hockey-final-usa-v-canada-live\">Americans won gold<\/a> at the Winter Olympics, calling the president\u2019s quip a \u201cdistasteful joke\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>After the US men\u2019s ice hockey team won gold on Sunday, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/23\/trump-usa-hockey-call-state-of-union\">called into the locker-room celebration<\/a> and invited the players to be his guests at Tuesday\u2019s State of the Union address.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/25\/distasteful-joke-us-hockey-star-hilary-knight-responds-to-trump-comments-on-womens-team\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Captain says controversy overshadows Olympic gold win Trump quipped about inviting US women to White House Knight says there is respect and support with men\u2019s team Hilary Knight, the captain of the US women\u2019s ice hockey team, has responded to comments made by Donald Trump after the Americans won gold at the Winter Olympics, calling &#8230; <a title=\"US hockey star Hilary Knight responds to Trump\u2019s \u2018distasteful joke\u2019 about women\u2019s team\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/us-hockey-star-hilary-knight-responds-to-trumps-distasteful-joke-about-womens-team\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US hockey star Hilary Knight responds to Trump\u2019s \u2018distasteful joke\u2019 about women\u2019s team\">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-67337","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\/67337","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=67337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}