Heated Rivalry star slams Olympic men’s hockey team for cozying up to Trump

“I must tell you, we’re going to have to bring the women’s team. You do know that," he said, before joking that he “probably would be impeached” if he didn’t invite them.

Instead of staying quiet or defending their fellow gold medal winners, the men’s hockey team could be seen “hanging off every word” and laughing along with the president, Browne pointed out.

Browne admitted that the laughter is still “echoing” through his mind and making him a “bit weepy” because these professional athletes are being mocked despite their dedication to the sport and winning gold for their country.

“In that moment, there were no allies in that room,” he said. “Allies speak up behind closed doors and allies say, ‘No, we’re not going to participate in this, we’re not going to laugh along with a bully. We are going to stand up for our female counterparts.’ And unfortunately, that didn’t happen.”

Both the men’s and women’s Olympic hockey teams won gold medals in sudden-death games against Canada that came down to nail-biting final moments. But the women’s team also broke the Olympic record for consecutive shutout minutes at 352 minutes and 17 seconds, the longest any ice hockey team has ever gone without letting a goal through (and 20 minutes longer than any team in the NHL has been able to pull off).

Women also took home 17 of the 33 medals Team USA won at the Milano Cortina Winter Games.

The women’s national ice hockey team celebration was notably absent from political posturing and the team refused Trump’s invitation to come to the White House, but the men’s team has come under fire for laughing along with Trump, and attending the State of the Union address on Feb. 24, where the president trotted them out as a prop before announcing that “Our country is winning again."

Browne was also critical of the Olympic men’s hockey stars, the Hughes brothers, and Jack Hughes response to the backlash, which downplayed why people are angry. “People are so negative out there, and they are just trying to find a reason to put people down and make something out of almost nothing," Jack Hughes said, according to ESPN.

“It would have been a great moment for the USA men’s hockey to just say, ‘We’re horrified by this. We’re so sorry.’ Just an apology, just something,” Browne said. “But then we see the Hughes brothers just doubling down and painting themselves as the victims. “

Browne, clearly angry about the way the Olympic men’s hockey team handled everything, closed the video with an impassioned plea for male athletes to do better.

“I’m so tired of screaming into the void of why people should care about other humans,” he said.

Browne continued: “It’s so easy to be like, ‘Everything’s political. We don’t need to be political in this moment when you are a white, straight, wealthy, cis man. There are immigrants, there are trans people, the LGBTQ+ community, women that are all being deeply impacted by the political landscape in the USA. I’m not saying athletes need to speak up on this. I would love it, it would be amazing. Just do not bring this bullshit into the sport and wonder why people are mad at you.”