OT: Make Blues Better Again - Blues visit White House

[Ranksu]

Great video and wonderful to see Blues at White House with Trump.

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[Embryo]

This is awesome, love this man. Congrats on winning the Cup, you guys deserved it after all those years making the playoffs and coming up short. St Louis is a great city, too, been there several times touring with my band, wonderful part of America.

 

[Embryo]

I posted this in the general hockey talk and a mod deleted it, glad someone put it up here.

 

[Halak Ness Monster]

I love it but you know there is no way in heck Trump watched a second of the Blues season lol

Edit: Also, is it normal for the President to discuss trade deals and bringing soldiers home for several minutes of a speech about a pro sport champion???

 

[Note Worthy]

I love it but you know there is no way in heck Trump watched a second of the Blues season lol

Edit: Also, is it normal for the President to discuss trade deals and bringing soldiers home for several minutes of a speech about a pro sport champion???

No. Not even kind of.

 

[BluesTraveller]

Not a fan of the president, but I like that nobody pulled the same thing Tim Thomas did.

 

[WeWantTacos]

I love that Tarasenko is over his shoulder in the Oval Office photo.

 

[CraftyVeteran]

I love it but you know there is no way in heck Trump watched a second of the Blues season lol

Edit: Also, is it normal for the President to discuss trade deals and bringing soldiers home for several minutes of a speech about a pro sport champion???

No. Not even kind of.

He was explaining why the VP is not present. Yes he bloviated but it's only important to those who let politics live in their head rent free. Move on.

 

[AjaxManifesto]

It's tradition, no matter who occupies the WH.

 

[Celtic Note]

Those videos were painful to watch. Half the time I was wondering what the hell I was watching.

 

[Note Worthy]

He was explaining why the VP is not present. Yes he bloviated but it's only important to those who let politics live in their head rent free. Move on.

Yes, I’m interested in politics so guess I let it live in my head rent free.

I forgot how cool it was to not care about politics.

 

[TK 421]

There's an OP sitting back having popcorn loving every minute of this, don't dance for his kitten soft attempts at puppetry.

 

[izzy]

hard to watch holy f***

 

[Stupendous Yappi]

Not sure why it struck me so funny, but the Blues jersey that said, “Trump” with number 45 just made me laugh. Trump in a Blues Jersey is comical for some reason.

Is this the last “celebratory” event? I prefer if the players can just focus on the here and now, and put last season in the past.

 

[Bobby Orrtuzzo]

Well folks, we, somehow, found a person who’s butchered Pietrangelo’s name worse than Pierre McGuire (skip to the 21:00 minute mark)

 

[Brockon]

Well folks, we, somehow, found a person who’s butchered Pietrangelo’s name worse than Pierre McGuire (skip to the 21:00 minute mark)

Wow... Alex Pertran-jello. That's one I haven't heard before.

 

[Falco Lombardi]

That is painful to watch. Dude doesn’t know f*** all about hockey (or anything else) and clearly the PR team failed miserably at learning names for him.

Also, why do teams go to the White House? Remove the bumbling idiot currently residing there and replace him with generic president X for this question.

Why are they there? It’s creepy weird propaganda. It’s like the military paying the NFL to sing the national anthem. Just bizarre propaganda.

Anyway, glad the celebratory stuff is over. It was a great summer and a magical ride but it’s time to get down to business.

 

[Ranksu]

Those videos were painful to watch. Half the time I was wondering what the hell I was watching.

I don't understand why it was painful to watch?

 

[Thallis]

I don't understand why it was painful to watch?

He ranted about his personal political issues to the team when it's really supposed to be a photo op and a "yay, welcome" event. The guys themselves were pretty clearly uncomfortable.

 

[ort]

Donald Trump makes me feel embarrassed to be an American... hell, he makes me embarrassed to be human.

 

[BlueDream]

Well folks, we, somehow, found a person who’s butchered Pietrangelo’s name worse than Pierre McGuire (skip to the 21:00 minute mark)

The player’s reactions to it are hilarious. Look at Bortuzzo after he says it

 

[Falco Lombardi]

He ranted about his personal political issues to the team when it's really supposed to be a photo op and a "yay, welcome" event. The guys themselves were pretty clearly uncomfortable.

Binnington trying to remove his hand from the handshake was pretty telling.

 

[Xerloris]

I like how everyone is trying to project their own personal feelings into how the players felt.

 

[Stupendous Yappi]

I thought the team was very classy in an event that others have allowed to become about partisan politics. Instead, it was a throwback to a nonpartisan era. They simply treated it as an honor and responded as such. I was proud of them for that.

 

[LGB]

That is painful to watch. Dude doesn’t know **** all about hockey (or anything else) and clearly the PR team failed miserably at learning names for him.

Also, why do teams go to the White House? Remove the bumbling idiot currently residing there and replace him with generic president X for this question.

Why are they there? It’s creepy weird propaganda. It’s like the military paying the NFL to sing the national anthem. Just bizarre propaganda.

Anyway, glad the celebratory stuff is over. It was a great summer and a magical ride but it’s time to get down to business.

No doubt it's propaganda, but if I was invited to the White House I'd want to go just because it would be a cool experience.