While Team USA’s men’s hockey team was enjoying its gold medal, it unexpectedly defeated Team Canada over the weekend, a former NASCAR driver. Danica Patrick he was shooting the silver medalists.
“If Canada was smart and was the 51st country, they’d be getting gold medals right now,” Patrick, 43, said on his Instagram story on Sunday, February 22, in a photo of Team Canada wearing their silver medals. “Soon?”
He seems to be referring to her President Donald Trump2025’s ‘push to make the United States’ northern neighbors its own country – potentially larger than the rest of the country combined.
“The United States cannot subsidize the country for $200 billion a year,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office last March. “We don’t need their cars. We don’t need their energy. We don’t need their lumber.
Trump added that Canada would be better off as part of the United States.
Justin TrudeauCanada’s prime minister at the time, criticized Trump’s proposal, insisting that his country was not interested in joining the US.
“What he wants is to see the collapse of the Canadian economy because that will make it easier to unite us,” he said of Trump, according to the story. ABC News at that time.
Patrick, an outspoken Trump supporter, has publicly expressed his side of the story several times since his re-election in January. Recently, he has been arguing against the NFL’s decision to have one Bad rabbit headline the Super Bowl LX halftime show.
He and other pundits blasted the decision, citing Bad Bunny’s decision to sing only in Spanish, his previous opposition to Trump’s immigration policies and saying the Puerto Rican singer is un-American. (The ugly rabbit, whose real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, was born in Puerto Rico, a territory of the United States. Puerto Ricans are American citizens.)
“The Super Bowl is the most-watched program we have on television all year,” Patrick said on the October 2025 episode of the “War Room” podcast. “It’s estimated that 127 million people will watch it. It’s valuable for television and sports, especially. It’s where we come together as a country. We enjoy it, we have events, we like to watch halftime. We know that we like to sing along to halftime and it’s usually one of the most dynamic in many different age groups.”
He went on to say, “I don’t have a problem with someone singing at halftime who isn’t from the United States, even though Bad Bunny is a citizen because he was born in Puerto Rico. He wasn’t born in America. I don’t care where he was born. All I care about is that I can sing along to the music. His music is almost nothing in English.”
Trump also disputed the decision, he said Newsmax in a phone interview in October, “I’ve never heard of him. I don’t know who he is. I don’t know why they’re doing it. It’s like crazy.”
He added, “I think it’s really bad.”
Trump later addressed the show itself after it aired, calling the show he once said he would never watch “the worst, worst, EVER!” in the post via Truth Social.
