US gold medalist debunks White House video: he never called Canadians “maple-syrup-eating f***s”
Instead of enjoying the gold medal after the Winter Olympics 2026, this hockey player tries to explain that a TikTok video shared by the White House that made it seem like he was insulting Canadians is fake.
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Instead of enjoying the gold medal after the Winter Olympics 2026, this hockey player tries to explain that a TikTok video shared by the White House that made it seem like he was insulting Canadians is fake.
This year’s Winter Olympics, which took place in Milan, were special to the United States men’s hockey team as it won the gold medal, its first in the last 46 years.
While the news was shared across the internet, the video posted by the White House official account on TikTok to commemorate the occasion especially stood out.
The beginning of the video, which has now gained more than 11 million views on the platform, shows Brady Tkachuk, a US men's ice hockey player, saying: “They booed our national anthem, so I had to come out and teach those maple-syrup-eating fucks a lesson. Canada, we own you, little bro."
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Despite the video coming from an official White House account with 5.3 million followers, the player said it was fake and that he never said such a thing.
In what appears to be an altered video, Tkachuk, who is also the captain of the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League, is shown speaking at a news conference at the 4 Nations Face-Off last February, ESPN notes.
The athlete shared that the footage is fake, adding that there’s not much he can do about it since he’s not in control of the video or accounts that share it.
This isn’t the only video related to the US hockey team that drew attention.
In another TikTok video shared by the White House, the team is shown talking on the phone with US President Donald Trump after winning the gold medal.
On this phone call, Trump invited the players to Washington, saying, “I must tell you, we're going to have to bring the women's team, you do know that," adding jokingly that otherwise, "I do believe I probably would be impeached."
The video shows how some players responded to this comment with laughter, an action that later drew much online debate.
Even though many agreed that the joke about the US women's hockey team, which also won Olympic gold, was unnecessary and distasteful, and that the men’s team shouldn’t have reacted the way it did, Tkachuk shared that the team was taken off guard at the time.
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