Donald Trump makes humiliating Alex Oveechkin Gaffe during the meeting with the Canadian Prime Minister

Donald TrumpThe efforts to repair diplomatic relations with Canada became a snag during the meeting on Tuesday with the new prime minister of that country, Mark Carney.

The president declared his respect for the American Northern neighbor and began to list his favorite Canadians to collect media, start with NHL legend and Well-known Trump supporter Wayne Gretzky.

“I love Canada,” said Trump. “I have a lot of respect for the Canadians. Wayne Gretzky, the big one. ‘

Trump then referred to another NHL -Superster in Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals, which Recently passed Gretzky As a top scorer of all time of the competition.

“You happen to have a very, very good hockey player here on the capitals, which I have a lot … He is also a big, cool cookie,” Trump said about Oveechkin. ‘Just broke the record. And he is a great guy. ‘

The problem, which was clear to anyone who is familiar with Hockey or Russia, is that Oveechkin is not Canadian. He was born and raised in Moscow and currently has a reported mansion of $ 4.2 million Virginia.

And Ovechkin is not only a player born in Russia. He already played internationally for Russia in 2019 and was able to do this again during the Winter Games 2026. Ovechkin even received praise from Russian President Vladimir Putin After catching up Gretzky.

Hockey fans and Trump critics quickly grabbed the president’s blunder.

“Geography was never his strong suit, isn’t it?” One wrote on X.

“The huge burden he is wearing to know it all,” another joked.

Various commentators quickly remembered Fox -Gastheer and Trump Sycophant Ainsley Earhardt, who recently “knows about every sport.”

And Trump was not only aware of Ovechkin during his second term. Rather the Putin supporter Got a Trump shout after winning the Stanley Cup with the caps in 2018.

“Congratulations to the Washington Capitals with their great game and winning the Stanley Cup championship,” Trump wrote about what was then called Twitter. ‘Alex Ovechkin, the team captain, was spectacular – a real superstar! DC pops in many ways. What a time! ‘

In the meantime, the inhabitant of Maga-Land Canadian should move to the United States, according to a fifth of all respondents in a new poll by DailyMail.com and JL Partners.

Gretzky, a national hero in his native Canada, has had to deal with criticism in his home country in the midst of his embrace of Trump. Last month, a fifth in an online survey said more than 1,000 Canadians that they think Gretzky should stay in the US.

Another 20 percent of the respondents said Gretzky should apologize and end his friendship with Donald Trump, “while 40 percent said he will remain a” Canadian legend, regardless of his friendship “with the 47th president.

A resident of Florida who previously lived in Arizona and Los Angeles, Gretzky has been in the news a lot lately, both because his NHL scoring record was broken by Oveechkin and due to criticism with which he was confronted with his ties with Trump in Canada.

Even when Ovechkin Gretzky surpassed last month with his 895th career goal, ‘The Great One’ was sitting next to Trump Insider and FBI director Kash Patel in UBS Arena on Long Island.

Both conservative and liberal Canadians have encountered problems with Trump, who has stated his wish several times to make the 51st of Canada America. Moreover, he has since doubled over the hostility between the two countries by adding rates to Canadian goods.

Last month a famous Gretzky statue in Edmonton was smeared with droppings after the Oilers legend had been at the President’s Club in Palm Beach, Florida and the inauguration in Washington after the election parties.

But, in the midst of the two countries that unfolding trade war, it was the presence of Gretzky as the honorary captain of Team Canada in the recent 4 Nations Championship of the NHL that some of his countrymen really made furious.

Many have criticized Gretzky because they have not worn team colors at the overtime hours of Canada on Team USA in Boston. In the meantime, others were focused on Gretzky’s ties with Trump.

“I’m just going to mention this sober,” wrote the TSN reporter Dave Naylor, established in Canada, on X, “The Honor for Canada publicly supports a political leader in this game whose position is that Canada should not exist as a nation.”

But he received support from a fellow hockey hall from Famer in Boston Bruins Great Bobby Orr.

In an on-ed piece before the Toronto Sun, the resident of Ontario Gretzky defended, who won various major international competitions as the leader of Team Canada during his match days.

“For my life I can’t understand why the” haters “decided to go after Wayne because he” didn’t wear a Canadian sweater “during his introduction at the last game,” Orr wrote. “For example, I thought he looked very worthy while he represented Canada with class and professionalism.

“Don’t forget that this is a man who proudly wore the maple -trees several times,” ORR continued. “As a player and manager, he has brought nothing but glory year after the decade after decade.”

Strangely enough, the ORR column does not make a direct mention of Trump.

Gretzky went to Trump’s election victory party in Mar-A-Lago, where the two golf lovers and their families were seen together.

Janet Jones, the old wife of Gretzky and resident of Missouri, shared a photo of her husband with Trump on social media, who seemed to row liberal hockey fans last month.

“You really have to question someone’s ethics and logic to support someone like Trump,” a user posted.

“Apparently there is an inverted relationship between hockey skills and intelligence,” added another.

One said, “Few things on earth more shameful than Canadian Maga Weirdos.”