{"id":67686,"date":"2026-03-01T09:05:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T14:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/us-hockey-star-hilary-knight-hits-back-at-trumps-joke-about-womens-team-during-snl-skit\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T09:05:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T14:05:13","slug":"us-hockey-star-hilary-knight-hits-back-at-trumps-joke-about-womens-team-during-snl-skit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/us-hockey-star-hilary-knight-hits-back-at-trumps-joke-about-womens-team-during-snl-skit\/","title":{"rendered":"US hockey star Hilary Knight hits back at Trump\u2019s joke about women\u2019s team during SNL skit"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Trump quipped about inviting US women to White House<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Knight appears on SNL with Hughes brothers <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>US ice hockey star Hilary Knight aimed a barb at Donald Trump during an appearance on this weekend\u2019s Saturday Night Live.<\/p>\n<p>Knight <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/19\/usa-canada-womens-ice-hockey-final-winter-olympics\">led the US women to gold<\/a> at last month\u2019s Olympics, scoring the Americans\u2019 first goal as they beat Canada in overtime. But after the US men\u2019s team won gold <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/23\/trump-usa-hockey-call-state-of-union\">Trump joked<\/a> that he would have to invite the women\u2019s team to the White House too or risk being impeached. Many of the men\u2019s players laughed at Trump\u2019s comments, and Knight <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/25\/distasteful-joke-us-hockey-star-hilary-knight-responds-to-trump-comments-on-womens-team\">later called them<\/a> \u201cdistasteful and unfortunate.\u201d While the US men visited the White House last week, Knight and her teammates said they were too busy to attend and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/feb\/27\/flavor-flav-to-host-las-vegas-event-for-winning-us-womens-olympic-ice-hockey-team\">will instead celebrate<\/a> at an event in July organized by rapper Flavor Flav.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/01\/hilary-knight-snl-appearance-trump-joke-jack-hughes-ice-hockey\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump quipped about inviting US women to White House Knight appears on SNL with Hughes brothers US ice hockey star Hilary Knight aimed a barb at Donald Trump during an appearance on this weekend\u2019s Saturday Night Live. Knight led the US women to gold at last month\u2019s Olympics, scoring the Americans\u2019 first goal as they &#8230; <a title=\"US hockey star Hilary Knight hits back at Trump\u2019s joke about women\u2019s team during SNL skit\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/01\/us-hockey-star-hilary-knight-hits-back-at-trumps-joke-about-womens-team-during-snl-skit\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US hockey star Hilary Knight hits back at Trump\u2019s joke about women\u2019s team during SNL skit\">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-67686","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\/67686","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=67686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}