I also have mixed emotions about my nation at the Olympics right now, Hunter Hess. A few days ago, the freestyle skier offered some tepid criticism of America after being asked what it’s like to represent Team USA in the current political climate. Hess responded by saying he has “mixed emotions.”

“There’s obviously a lot going on that I’m not the biggest fan of. I think a lot of people aren’t,” he added.

Hess didn’t specify exactly which things going on he isn’t the biggest fan of. There are, after all, so many to choose from. But that didn’t prevent Mt. Tushmore from taking his comments as a personal attack. “A real loser,” wrote the President of the United States about the highly decorated athlete, adding that it’s “too bad” Hess is on the Olympic squad.

I’m having a difficult time recalling a similar instance of any head of state personally insulting a member of their own Olympic team, although in 2016, Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe decried his entire national team as “rats” after they failed to capture any medals during the Rio Games. When you’re in a contest with Robert Mugabe about who’s the biggest a-hole, I would suggest that the loser isn’t the athlete.

Then again, of course Trump and his goofball minions are making the Olympics about themselves. J.D. Vance, who set a new Olympic record for most boos during an opening ceremony, has since........

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