American skier Lindsey Vonn just made news for politicizing the upcoming Winter Olympic Games and USA Today writer Nancy Armour is doing so as well. Armour insists the Trump Administration is interfering with Olympic officials over security concerns and needs to mind its own business.
Armour began a "memo" to the Trump Administration by complaining that United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley and White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders are giving the impression that Team USA might not compete in the games due to tensions in North Korea.
"Nothing could be further from the truth," Armour wrote. "Facts matter, something the Trump administration would do well to remember the next time it’s thinking about weighing in on a decision. Especially one in which it has no say."
Armour continued lecturing: "There is, first off, the small matter of this not even being the White House’s decision. The U.S. Olympic Committee is not a government organization – it doesn’t receive direct federal funding – and it will make the call on whether to send a team to Pyeongchang. Any other Olympics, for that matter, too."
Armour had little to say about the madman dictator across the border from South Korea, but insists U.S. leadership is causing stress for our Olympians:
Why the administration decided to insert itself, and do it now, isn’t clear. Still, Haley and Sanders ought to have known better. They might have thought they were making throwaway statements, but they have a real impact on athletes who have spent their lives training for this moment. Most of the American contingent still is trying to secure their spot on the U.S. team, a stressful enough scenario without adding in doubt about whether they’ll get to compete. ... Think comments like Haley’s and Sanders’ did anything to calm their nerves?
The USA Today columnist was responding to a report yesterday that United States officials "expressed concern about security at the Winter Olympics in South Korea in February, initially raising the possibility of withdrawing from the games but later insisting that American athletes will compete."
That makes our own government a bigger issue to the Games than North Korea, Armour writes. "North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has made no threats against the Olympics" and "the Olympics are often the safest place in the world to be."
Armour claims it is America -- not North Korea -- that is fear-mongering and politicizing the Games. "If the White House is trying to play politics (with the Olympics), they're doing it with the wrong people."
Does anyone not believe that if there is a security breach at the Winter Olympics Trump will not be blamed by the left-stream media?
