cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/173353

On Monday, United States Olympic skier Hunter Hess appeared to respond to President Donald Trump’s remark that he is a “real loser” for expressing mixed feelings about representing the U.S. The 27-year-old freestyle skier caught the attention of the president for his comments in a press conference in Milan on Friday. “It brings up mixed emotions to represent the U.S. right now.

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    • HubertManne@piefed.social
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      16 hours ago

      your getting downvoted but the title clearly is clickbait suggesting it has some sort of comment from hess about what trump said about him. so I get it at least.

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          16 hours ago

          Its kinda handy really a bunch of downvotes are noticable and kinda highlights comments and I tend to give those a double check preciesly because of this kind of thing.

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      1 day ago

      The comment says it is his response to Trumps comment.

      The article also has his original comment if you’re wondering what that was.

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          18 hours ago

          Eh? Are we reading the same things? I can’t see why you think the comment called directly out as a response is the initial comment, which is also called out directly in the article.

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                15 hours ago

                Reread the article, his original quote was on Friday:

                his comments in a press conference in Milan on Friday.

                “It brings up mixed emotions to represent the U.S. right now. I think it’s a little hard. There’s obviously a lot going on that I’m not the biggest fan of, and I think a lot of people aren’t,” Hess said.

                “Just because I’m wearing the flag doesn’t mean I represent everything that’s going on in the U.S.,” he clarified later.

                Following that Trump insulted him and he followed up with the quote mentioned above on Monday.

                I think you just have the time line off.