Dave Portnoy: Negative Reaction To Team USA Hockey Victory “Should Be A Barometer Of Whether You’re A Psychopath”
Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy gives his take on the critics of Team USA’s men’s hockey gold medal victory at the Winter Olympics. “If this speech made you mad, you need to take a Valium and maybe just take a thousand steps back because there’s nothing to be mad about when the President congratulates a gold medal winning team,” Portnoy said. “So it’s wild to see the reaction to this video, which to me is just patriotism and people being happy to win a gold medal. What do you expect?”
DAVE PORTNOY: And sometimes on the show, whether you weighed in, and again, I’ve said a couple of times, there’s a video going going very viral. I’m sure you guys have seen it. It’s the President Trump calling the hockey team after they win. And he’s basically congratulating him. He’s really going in hella buck. He’s like, unbelievable. You guys, he invites them to the State of the Union, which I believe they are coming to. And he’s like, also, boys, just to let you know, I’m going to have to invite the women as well or else I get impeached. If I didn’t, they all laugh. And I’ve been doing Barstool now for 20 years. There is no softer group of people than hockey Twitter. People are mad. They’re going nuts. How could the hockey team laugh? Why are they talking to the President? That stuff, this should be a barometer of whether you’re a psychopath. If the President calls after you win the gold medal, I don’t care. If you don’t want to talk to him, fine. You don’t have to. But to get mad when you talk to the United States, and he’s just congratulated him, chumming around. Both teams are going to the State of the Union. If this speech made you mad, you need to take a Valium and maybe just take a thousand steps back because there’s nothing to be mad about when the President congratulates a gold medal winning team. So it’s wild to see the reaction to this video, which to me is just patriotism and people being happy to win a gold medal. What do you expect? But hockey Twitter and hockey Twitter specifically, the softest group of people on the planet. So I had to get that out. And even the Kash Patel, that’s going viral. People are mad he’s there. I feel like at all Olympics, you see President, Secretary of State. So are the Director of FBI. Let me tell you something. If I’m the Director of the FBI and they invite me into the locker room, I will be there in the locker room. But you always see politicians. Why are people suddenly mad? He’s there. There’s politicians across the world at these games.
