Some of Team USA's most prominent Winter Olympians won't meet with Trump

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Some of Team USA’s most prominent Winter Olympians won’t meet with Trump
Chloe Kim, Adam Rippon, Lindsey Vonn and more won't visit the White House Friday.
Rebekah Entralgo
Apr 26, 2018, 8:16 pm


On Friday morning, the 2018 U.S. Winter Olympic and Paralympic teams are scheduled to meet with President Donald Trump at the White House.

Some of Team USA’s most prominent athletes, however, have announced they will not be in attendance.

Olympic alpine skier Lindsey Vonn won’t be there. Neither will opening ceremony flag bearer and luge athlete Erin Hamlin. Ice skater Adam Rippon and almost all of his figure skating teammates will be missing, too, as will snowboarder Chloe Kim. Olympic skiers like Gus Kenworthy, Jessie Diggins, and David Wise won’t meet with Trump either.

Vonn hasn’t been quiet in the past when it comes to her views on the president.

Vonn commented that when she participates in the Olympics, she views it as representing the United States, not the president. She offered mild criticism of Trump without mentioning him by name.

“I hope to represent the people of the United States, not the president. I take the Olympics very seriously and what they mean and what they represent, what walking under our flag means in the opening ceremony,” Vonn said in an interview with CNN before the Olympics. “I want to represent our country well. I don’t think that there are a lot of people currently in our government that do that.”

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https://thinkprogress.org/team-usa-athletes-wont-meet-with-trump-f6a7aaad69d3/

[Hortensis]

1. Really bad when honoring your nation requires publicly

renouncing its president. Used to be you honored the office no matter who held it, but we've never had this in it before.

[riversedge]

2. Thank you to the brave ones.

[Scurrilous]

3. K&R