Hilary Knight responds to Trump's comment on women - ESPN

Olympic gold medal winner Hilary Knight said Wednesday that a widely circulated comment from President Trump about the United States women's team was a «distasteful joke» and that she's more focused on celebrating women's accomplishments at the Milan Games.

During the American men's team's locker room celebration in Milan, Trump extended an invitation to the players to come to Washington and the State of the Union address. «I must tell you, we're going to have to bring the women's team, you do know that,» adding with a laugh that if he didn't also invite the women's team, «I do believe I probably would be impeached.»

Appearing on «SportsCenter» on Wednesday, Knight said, «I thought it was sort of a distasteful joke and unfortunately that is overshadowing a lot of the success, the success of just women at the Olympics carrying for Team USA and having amazing gold medal feats.

»We're just focusing on celebrating the women in our room, the extraordinary efforts, and continue to celebrate three gold medals in program history as well as the double gold for both men's and women's at the same time. And really not detract from that with a distasteful joke."

Knight later said that she was looking forward to «celebrating all great things that have come out of the Olympics and feeling the love and support and getting back in our respective communities and sharing this journey with them. And that's what this is all about.»

Several players on the men's team appeared to laugh at Trump's comment, a reaction that drew criticism when the video went viral. Jack Hughes, who scored the men's gold medal game winner, and his brother Quinn were asked about the situation Tuesday and focused on the team's relationship with the women's squad.

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