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Two days removed from a celebratory McDonald\u2019s feast at the White House, Team USA\u2019s Brady Tkachuk is upset that he was featured in a video posted by the administration that dubbed his voice to depict him disparaging Canada.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The video used real footage of the Tkachuk brothers speaking after the 4 Nations Face-Off in 2025, but dubbed over Brady to make him say \u201cThey booed our national anthem, so I to come out and teach those maple syrup-eating f***s a lesson. Canada, we own you little bro.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Even though the video is fake, it\u2019s put Brady Tkachuk in an extremely awkward situation. Yes, he played on the U.S. Olympic team, but he\u2019s also the captain of the Ottawa Senators, the capital of Canada \u2014 and he lives there. Now he\u2019s speaking out, saying that the video doesn\u2019t represent him at all, and he\u2019s upset the White House would doctor a video that way<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cWell, it\u2019s clearly fake, because it\u2019s not my voice, not my lips moving. I\u2019m not in control of any of those accounts. I know that those words would never come out of my mouth. So, I can\u2019t do anything about it. It\u2019s not my voice. It\u2019s not what I was saying. I would never say that. That\u2019s not who I am, so I guess I don\u2019t like that video because that would never come out of my mouth, and never had that thought.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n It\u2019s a classic case of the White House being Johnny-come-latelys to try and draft off U.S. hockey\u2019s success without understanding the dynamics at play. Yes, the Tkachuk brothers spoke about wanting to get revenge for the 4 Nations, but that was based on Canada beating them at hockey, not political beef. In addition, numerous Team USA players compete for Canadian teams in the NHL, have Canadian friends on the roster, live in Canada, and raise their kids in Canada. There isn\u2019t actual beef with the nation, as the White House wants people to believe, simply because the President is beefing with Canada.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n