Gold Medal Winners Fire Back on ‘SNL’ After Trump Invite Stir
The punchline landed before the audience even caught its breath. According to the New York Post , Hilary Knight stepped onto the “Saturday Night Live” stage, gold medal hanging from her neck, and turned a week of…
The punchline landed before the audience even caught its breath.
According to the New York Post, Hilary Knight stepped onto the “Saturday Night Live” stage, gold medal hanging from her neck, and turned a week of Olympic chatter into a live comedy moment.
Knight and teammate Megan Keller surprised viewers by joining men’s players Jack and Quinn Hughes during the opening monologue of “Heated Rivalry” actor Connor Storrie.
The crowd erupted as the four Olympians, all in Team USA jerseys, lined up shoulder to shoulder.
“It was going to be just US, but we thought we’d invite the guys, too,” Knight said, drawing laughs and an immediate callback to the controversy that had followed the teams since the Milan Cortina Games.
The joke referenced the moment when President Donald Trump phoned the men’s team after their 2-1 overtime win over Canada and invited them to his State of the Union, adding that he would “have to also invite the women, too.”
He later quipped that failing to do so could get him impeached, a remark that prompted laughter from players and criticism from others.
Knight had called the comment “distasteful and unfortunate” earlier in the week.