The Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail referred to members of the Team USA Olympic hockey squad as “monkeys” in a column published after their gold medal victory over Canada and appearance at President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address. “It was only as they filed into the chamber inside Washington’s Capitol building on Tuesday night – surrounded by hooting politicians – that it seemed to occur to Team USA what they had gotten themselves into,” the piece began. “This was a zoo. They were the monkeys.”
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