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 Donald Trump ruined Olympic patriotism for Team USA: Olympic patriotism for Team USA just isn’t the same anymore.
02/11/26 12:15 PM
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We had a schtick here at SB Nation circa 2014 with the Sochi Winter Olympics, or more aptly, a social media strategy that led us to posting endless, tongue-in-cheek, jingoistic patriotism during the games. There were the traditional medal counts and tracking the achievements of U.S. athletes that were earnest, but also intentionally cringy images of Ronald Regan riding a velociraptor, a muscled George Washington covered in bandoleers, and Abe Lincoln smoking cigars.
It’s horrifically clichéd now, but it wasn’t back then. The intention was to juxtapose the honest, legitimate pride we had in the U.S. Olympians, with an online voice of supreme egotism and bombast — complete with North Korea-esque propaganda art.
Everything is different 12 years later. The joke propaganda art is now merchandise of the president. The isolationist attitude, once spoken of in jest, is now official foreign policy. It hits different to front a “rah, rah, rah USA” persona when concentration camps are being constructed, foreign governments are being toppled, and influential alleged pedophiles are being protected at the behest of a justice department in lockstep with the executive branch.
It’s just not fun to be patriotic with these games. It’s something athletes are struggling with too, as Rich Ruohonen of Team USA Curling said this week.
I’m proud to be here to represent Team USA, and to represent out country — be’d be remiss if we didn’t at least mention what’s going on in Minnesota. […] I am a lawyer, as you know, and we have a constitution… and what’s happening in Minnesota is wrong. There’s no shades of gray. It’s clear.”
https://www.sbnation.com/olympics/1103468/olympic-patriotism-isnt-fun-in-trumps-usa?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
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