Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau scored a direct political hit on Donald Trump Thursday night after Canada’s hockey team dispatched Team USA 3-2 in overtime in a 4 Nations Faceoff Championship Game in Boston.
“You can’t take our country — and you can’t take our game,” vowed Trudeau just minutes after the win, referring to Trump’s repeated demeaning taunts that Canada would become the 51st state in America.
Trump, who has been needling Trudeau for weeks, said in a post on Truth Social earlier that he was going to call Team USA to urge them to victory over the nation that will “someday, maybe soon, become our cherished, and very important, Fifty First State.".
While some hockey fans from both sides insisted before Thursday night’s competition that they wanted to keep politics out of the game, some Americans booed while the Canadian national anthem was sung at Boston’s TD Garden Arena.
Thursday that she had slightly altered the lyrics of her nation’s anthem O Canada before the game to make a point about continued independence and to protest the bullying Trump.
