'What was so funny?': Hockey fans call out U.S. men's team for laughing at Trump's remark

You'd be forgiven for thinking USA Hockey's recent Instagram post congratulating the men's team for their gold medal win at the Olympics is, in fact, a post about the women's team.

That's because most of the comments — and there are more than 12,000 of them — are celebrating the women's hockey team, who also won gold at the Milano-Cortina Olympic Games.

"So as I was saying ... we are soooo proud of the WOMEN’s hockey team for winning gold," one person commented on the Instagram post featuring a photo compilation of the 2026 men's Olympic hockey team. That comment was "liked" more than 34,000 times.

"Super proud of the women’s hockey team! The men’s hockey team.... Not so much," someone else wrote.

"Trump’s comment indicates that the women were an afterthought and only considered because there might be negative repercussions," Angela Schneider, an Olympic silver medallist in rowing and director of the International Centre for Olympic Studies at Western University in London, Ont., told CBC News.

"He tried to make it up to be a joke, but of course the women did not find it funny — especially given that the U.S.A. women’s team won more medals than the men’s overall and over several Olympic Games."