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Flavor Flav is a ride-or-die U.S. Women’s Olympic supporter. After the American women’s hockey team scored a gold medal last week at the Winter Olympics, the Public Enemy hype man has invited the squad to party with him in Las Vegas.
The formal invitation came after Donald Trump disrespected the gold medal-winning team in a phone call with their male counterparts — who also won gold in their match over the weekend, where, like the women, they beat Canada 2-1 in overtime — during which the president invited the men to attend tonight’s (Feb. 24) State of the Union address.
“I must tell you, we’re gonna have to bring the women’s team — you do know that,” Trump laughed, saying that if they didn’t get an invite, “I do believe I probably would be impeached, OK?”
“If the USA Women’s Hockey team wants a real celebration and invite ,,, I’ll host them in Las Vegas,” Flav wrote on X on Monday. “Do some nice dinners and shows and good times. I’m sure I can get a hotel and airline to help me out here and celebrate these women for real for real.” For the record, Flav, who was also a huge supporter of the U.S. women at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, also extended his Sin City invite to the bobsled and skeleton teams, for whom he served as hype man during the just-concluded Milan Cortina Games.
While the U.S. men happily accepted Trump’s invite, the women’s hockey team politely declined. “We are sincerely grateful for the invitation extended to our gold medal-winning U.S. Women’s Hockey Team and deeply appreciate the recognition of their extraordinary achievement,” the team said in a statement released on Monday. “Due to the timing and previously scheduled academic and professional commitments following the Games, the athletes are unable to participate. They were honored to be included and are grateful for the acknowledgment.”
While a source told the Associated Press that the women’s invite came in late Sunday night, making it difficult to change their travel plans, the offhanded manner in which Trump issued it drew ire from many commentators. Among them was veteran sports journalist Keith Olbermann, who wrote, “Anybody smart (or respectful of women athletes) on the U.S. Men’s Olympic hockey team or connected to it, will refuse Trump’s invitation to The State of the Union. Any who show up are declaring their indelible stupidity and misogyny. The End.”
