US men’s Olympic hockey team lands at Joint Base Andrews on way to State of the Union

The gold-medal-winning U.S. males’s Olympic hockey workforce has touched down at Joint Base Andrews on its option to the Capitol for President Donald Trump’s State of the Union handle on Tuesday evening.

Ahead Matthew Tkachuk posted footage on social media of members of the workforce celebrating on what seems to be a U.S. authorities aircraft and a gaggle shot of them deplaning.

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The U.S. beat Canada 2-1 in additional time on Sunday on the Milan Cortina Olympics. It was the People’ first gold medal in males’s hockey for the reason that “Miracle on Ice” group received in Lake Placid, New York, in 1980.

The workforce acquired a State of the Union invitation from Trump following the sport. A video that circulated on social media appeared to point out Trump inviting the workforce on a telephone name within the locker room, as he joked that he’d even have to ask the ladies’s workforce, which additionally received gold over Canada.

The ladies declined, citing scheduling points.

The lads’s workforce took a chartered aircraft to Miami on Monday evening earlier than touring to the nation’s capital on Tuesday morning. The workforce went to the White Home after touchdown at Joint Base Andrews.

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AP Winter Olympics: https://apnews.com/hub/milan-cortina-2026-winter-olympics