MS NOW Deadline: White House host Nicolle Wallace had a funny definition of bravery on Monday. According to her, Olympians such as Eileen Gu are “more brave than” most for their criticisms of President Trump. Of course, Wallace forgot to mention that Gu was born in America, but competes for the genocidal, communist dictatorship in China.
Wallace introduced a clip of another skier, Oregon’s Hunter Hess, “You've now lost the people who have put steel in the spine of culture, who have put steel in the spine of sports, who now, I think, prove, and let me put up some of the Olympians. I mean, this is happening every day in Italy since the Olympics started last week. This is athletes, this is Hunter Hess. Let me show you this.”
From Monday, after reading a quote from American-representing-China Eileen Gu criticizing Trump, Nicolle Wallace, "these folks who have nothing to gain, right, by sticking their toe into politics, are more brave than the law firms, than the universities that capitulated, than the… pic.twitter.com/JwxwO8gi0p
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In the clip, Hess declared, “It brings up mixed emotions to represent the U.S. right now. I think it's a little hard. There's obviously a lot going on that I'm not the biggest fan of. And I think a lot of people aren't… Just because I'm wearing the flag doesn't mean I represent everything that's going on in the U.S.”
It would have been ideal if Hess had simply said, “I’m not here to discuss politics,” but the biggest problem is whoever the reporter was that thought injecting domestic politics into the Olympics was a good idea. Nevertheless, Trump criticized Hess for his remarks, which led others to defend him, which Wallace reported, “And the New York Times reports that Chloe Kim, Eileen Gu spoke out after Trump called Hunter a loser.”
She then read a quote from Gu, “I'm sorry that the headline that is eclipsing the Olympics has to be something so unrelated to the spirit of the games. It really runs contrary to everything the Olympics should be. The whole point of sports is to bring people together, one of the very few common languages, that of the human body, that of the human spirit, the competitive spirit, the capacity to break not only records, but especially in our sport, literally the human limit. How wonderful is that?”
Wallace was smitten, “That all these folks who have nothing to gain, right, by sticking their toe into politics, are more brave than the law firms, than the universities that capitulated, than the tech. I need a forum where I can swear we're going to do that soon, right? The tech [grunts] who stood shoulder to shoulder with no shame with Donald Trump. Tim Cook, who showed up at the White House in a tuxedo the day after the second American citizen was killed on the streets of Minneapolis. This all emanates from the courage that the people, it started in Minneapolis. It's gone coast to coast, have displayed in the face of Donald Trump.”
There are a lot of words to describe someone born into American freedom but chooses to compete for China, our country's top adversary, but “brave” isn’t one of them. China doesn’t allow for dual citizenship, so either Gu renounced her American citizenship or China has allowed her to play by a different set of rules than everyone else. She didn’t just criticize a president of the other party; she turned her back on the whole country. Hess was on the receiving end of a Trump Truth Social post, Chinese citizens who criticize their government are liable to get arrested for wrongthink. Those are the truly brave people, while people like Gu are the cowards.
Here is a transcript for the February 9 show:
MS NOW Deadline: White House
2/9/2026
5:09 PM ET
NICOLLE WALLACE: You've now lost the people who have put steel in the spine of culture, who have put steel in the spine of sports, who now, I think, prove, and let me put up some of the Olympians. I mean, this is happening every day in Italy since the Olympics started last week. This is athletes, this is Hunter Hess. Let me show you this.
HUNTER HESS: It brings up mixed emotions to represent the U.S. right now. I think it's a little hard. There's obviously a lot going on that I'm not the biggest fan of. And I think a lot of people aren't. [jump cut] Just because I'm wearing the flag doesn't mean I represent everything that's going on in the U.S.
WALLACE: And the New York Times reports that Chloe Kim, Eileen Gu spoke out after Trump called Hunter a loser, said, quote, “I'm sorry that the headline that is eclipsing the Olympics has to be something so unrelated to the spirit of the games. It really runs contrary to everything the Olympics should be. The whole point of sports is to bring people together, one of the very few common languages, that of the human body, that of the human spirit, the competitive spirit, the capacity to break not only records, but especially in our sport, literally the human limit. How wonderful is that?”
That all these folks who have nothing to gain, right, by sticking their toe into politics, are more brave than the law firms, than the universities that capitulated, than the tech. I need a forum where I can swear we're going to do that soon, right? The tech [grunts] who stood shoulder to shoulder with no shame with Donald Trump. Tim Cook, who showed up at the White House in a tuxedo the day after the second American citizen was killed on the streets of Minneapolis. This all emanates from the courage that the people, it started in Minneapolis. It's gone coast to coast, have displayed in the face of Donald Trump.
