The official TikTok account depicted him saying disparaging things about Canadians.

U.S. Olympic hockey player blasts White House: ‘That’s not who I am’

The official TikTok account depicted him saying disparaging things about Canadians.

By Raechal Shewfelt

Raechal Shewfelt

Raechal Shewfelt is a writer at **. She has been working at EW since 2024. Her work has previously appeared on Yahoo and in American *Journalism Review* and *The Shreveport Times*.

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February 26, 2026 10:44 p.m. ET

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Brady Tkachuk plays for Team USA on Feb. 20 during Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics. Credit:

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U.S. Olympic hockey player Brady Tkachuk is speaking out after the White House's official TikTok account posted AI-created video depicting him insulting Canadians.

The footage, which the platform flagged for containing "AI-generated media" was shared Sunday, the day that Team USA defeated Canada in men's hockey 2-1 in overtime, to take home the gold medal for the first time since 1980.

"It's clearly fake because it's not my voice and not my lips moving,” Tkachuk told the Associated Press. "I'm not in control of any of those accounts."

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Still, he added, "I know that those words would never come out of my mouth."

In the doctored clip, Tkachuk is shown at a news conference saying, "They booed our national anthem, so I had to come out and teach those maple syrup-eating f---s a lesson."

Brady Tkachuk celebrates Team USA's win Feb. 22 during the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games.

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His image also says, "Canada, we own you, little bro."

In fact, Tkachuk is the captain of the NHL's Ottawa Senators, so he's based in Canada.

When asked, he said he did not like the video.

"I would never say that," said Tkachuk, a 26-year-old from Arizona. "That's not who I am."

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After the team's triumph, Tkachuk was one of the men on his Olympic team who made a stop in Washington, D.C., Tuesday to attend President Donald Trump's State of the Union speech.

Notably, five members of the team did not to attend: Kyle Connor, Jake Guentzel, Jackson LaCombe, Brock Nelson, and Jake Oettinger.

Trump said during his time at the podium that he would be bestowing the Presidential Medal of Freedom on the team's goalie Connor Hellebuyck.

The athlete also told the AP that he was not the person who yelled, "Close the northern border," during a call between his team and Trump, following their return to the locker room after winning the gold medal.

"I've been seeing stuff that people think it's me," Tkachuk said. "But if you watch the video, that's not my voice, and something that I never say. I don't really know how that kind of took a storm on its own, when I play here and give everything I have here."

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