Justin Trudeau hit back at Donald Trump after Canada's gold medal hockey win over the US
Our game, our country! 🏒
Justin Trudeau in a Team Canada hockey jersey. Right: Team Canada logo on the ice at the 4 Nations Face-Off.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fired back at Donald Trump's continued threats of Canada becoming an American state.
This comes after Canada's gold medal win over the U.S. in the 4 Nations Face-Off.
Canada and the U.S. were battling on the ice in the tournament's final held in Boston on Thursday, February 20.
With the score tied 2-2 at the end of the third period, the game went into a sudden-death overtime and Canada won 3-2 because of a goal from Connor McDavid.
After the game, Trudeau had a clear message for Trump, which he posted on X and Instagram.
"You can't take our country — and you can't take our game."
Trudeau also shared an old video of former Canadian hockey player Hayley Wickenheiser after a win over the U.S. in the Olympics.
"The Americans had our flag on their floor in the dressing room and now I want to know if they want us to sign it," Wickenheiser said.
Trudeau simply wrote, "What she said."
Before the Canada-U.S. final in the 4 Nations Face-Off, Trump posted on Truth Social, calling on the U.S. team to beat Canada which he claimed would "someday, maybe soon, become our cherished, and very important Fifty First State."
He also said that he couldn't make it to the game — Trudeau attended one of Canada's games in Montreal — but would be watching from D.C. and invited "Governer Trudeau" to join him.
That wasn't the only heated moment related to the Canada-U.S. hockey game.
During the 4 Nations Face-Off games played in Canada, fans booed the American national anthem in response to Trump's threats of tariffs and Canada becoming a U.S. state.
So, at the final played in Boston, people booed O Canada.
Also, Canadian singer Chantal Kreviazuk performed the national anthem at the game and changed the lyrics of O Canada from "in all of us command" to "that only us command."
Kreviazuk later posted on Instagram that the lyric change was intentional.
"In this very peculiar and potentially consequential moment I truly believe that we must stand up, use our voices and try to protect ourselves," she said. "We should express our outrage in the face of any abuses of power."