White House Taunts Justin Trudeau After U.S. Hockey Bests Canada In Olympic Gold-Medal Match

The White House taunted former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after the United States bested its northern neighbor in a tense overtime battle on Sunday at the Milan Olympics.

Following the win, President Donald Trump’s White House took to X to share an image of a bald eagle smashing a Canada goose face-first into the ice.

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— The White House (@WhiteHouse) February 22, 2026

The White House was responding to a post shared by Trudeau one year earlier, after Canada defeated Team USA in the 4 Nations Face-Off hockey championship, as The Daily Wire previously reported. Days earlier, the Americans had bested Canada in Montreal — after Canadian fans booed America’s national anthem. American fans fired back ahead of Thursday’s game, booing during the singing of “O Canada.”

“You can’t take our country — and you can’t take our game,” Trudeau said at the time, jabbing at Trump over prior claims that he’d annex Canada and make it the 51st state.

Semifinal victories on Friday (the United States over Slovakia and Canada over Finland) had pitted the North American neighbors against each other for the finals — the Americans delivered the win in a nail-biter that went into overtime on Sunday morning.

Trump himself also offered congratulations to the American team, saying, “Congratulations to our great U.S.A. Ice Hockey team. THEY WON THE GOLD. WOW! President DONALD J. TRUMP.”

Sunday’s win marks the first time in 46 years — to the day — that a U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team has won gold. The last time it happened, in 1980, a team comprised of college students was able to overcome enormous odds and best the heavily-favored defending gold-medal team from the Soviet Union. The stunning upset was quickly dubbed the “Miracle on Ice.”

The USA men’s victory comes just three days after the women’s gold-medal match on Thursday — which was also a showdown between the United States and Canada. The American women went into the final game with a strong tournament record, outscoring their previous six opponents 31-1 and not allowing a single goal in more than five consecutive games. They, too, came out victorious.