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Italians FURIOUS as Trump Sends ICE THUGS to WINTER OLYMPICS
Italians FURIOUS asTrump Sends ICE to WINTER OLYMPICS...Milan Winter Olympics Venue Removes ICE From its Name
Lets NOT Sportswash Trumps Authoritarianism Trying to Take Over ALL Sport
Olympic Committee Begs Fans to Be Nice to JD Vance PRETTY PLEASE.....There is talk of the U.S. delegation potentially being jeered at the opening ceremony.
AP 6 FEB 2026
US Sends ICE Agents to Winter Olympics, Prompting Italian Anger
ICE Goons Get Chilly Italian Reception at Winter Olympics
The International Olympic Committee was forced to ask fans not to boo the U.S. delegation led by Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio during Fridays opening ceremony for the Milano Cortina Winter Games.
The Department of Homeland Security sparked an international outcry last week when it confirmed that members of ICEs Homeland Security Investigations unit would help provide security for the Games.
Italians have been shocked by images of ICE and Border Patrol agents pepper spraying protesters, breaking into peoples homes, arresting children, and shooting and killing U.S. citizens Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti, sparking protests, petitions, and demands from opposition lawmakers that Trump thugs be denied entry to Italy.
HOW DOES ONE CHEER Team USAs premier athletes when America is in the grips of an authoritarian attempting to entrench himself in power? With the Winter Olympics in Italy upon us and the World Cup looming this summer, sports fans will soon face precisely this challenge.
We will have to find a way to support athletes without seeing that support co opted by a president who claims nearly everything for himself, from prizes he did not earn to legal authorities he does not possess. It will be a test for our athletes, as well.
International sports are an opportunity for athletic competition and excellence, a celebration of national pride, and, more often than the International Olympic Committee might like to admit, soaked in politics.
Hitler used the 1936 games in Berlin to showcase Nazism Israeli athletes were murdered by terrorists in Munich in 1972 the United States boycotted the 1980 Olympics in Moscow in protest of the unprovoked invasion of Afghanistan and in Sochi in 2014, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin used the games as a domestic propaganda tool and a way to line his friends and presumably his own pockets.
SO WHAT ABOUT THE FANS? What are we to do when cheering and flag waving can be claimed by President Trump, who has sought to put his name on anything he can?
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AMERICA WAS ONCE AN INNOVATED & RESPECTED COUNTRY and THEN ALONG CAME TRUMP.....
That buzz you hear is George Washington spinning in his grave
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