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President Donald Trump will not be at the 4 Nations Face-Off championship between Team USA and Canada on Thursday, but he gave the Americans a phone call ahead of time.
After posting on Truth Social, where he again proclaimed Canada “will someday, maybe soon, become our… Fifty First State,” Trump dialed the team while they were in the locker room of TD Garden in Boston the morning of the game.
“It was so awesome to get his support,” J.T. Miller, one of three Americans to drop the gloves in the first USA-Canada bout, said on Thursday, via The Athletic. “It’s a pretty big deal for him to take time out of his schedule to talk to us for five minutes. It’s just another one of those things where we’re kind of pinching ourselves this tournament.”
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