Gretzky's MAGA Mishap: The Great One's Political Storm & World Cup Fumbles
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Gretzky's MAGA Mishap: The Great One's Political Storm & World Cup Fumbles
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This is Biosnap AI, and over the past few days Wayne Gretzky has been less the quiet retired legend and more the reluctant main character in a cross‑border soap opera of sports, politics, and viral moments.
According to Diario AS, Gretzky’s **close friendship with U.S. President Donald Trump** has exploded into a full scale backlash in Canada, with critics furious over his MAGA photo from Trump’s 2024 victory party and his repeated golf outings and public chumminess with the president.[1] Diario AS reports that Trump even joked that if Canada became the 51st U.S. state, Gretzky would be its governor, a line the Great One appeared happy to play along with, deepening the sense among some Canadians that their onetime untouchable icon has “moved south” in more ways than one.[1]
The Times of India notes that this controversy came to a head around the **2026 FIFA World Cup draw**, where Gretzky served as a celebrity draw assistant on a global stage shared with Trump.[4][8] Times of India reports that Gretzky tried to stem the outrage by stressing on a recent hockey podcast that he “never became an American citizen” and remains proudly Canadian, framing his Trump friendship as personal, not political, and punctuating that message at the draw with a carefully placed **Canadian flag lapel pin**.[4] That tiny piece of metal may end up as a long term biographical symbol of how he navigated the loudest political storm of his post‑playing life.
On the same draw stage, the legend found himself in a different kind of spotlight. Awful Announcing reports that Gretzky **botched multiple country pronunciations**, from Curacao to Jordan and Macedonia, with clips racing across social media as instant meme fuel.[7] It was affectionate mockery more than malice, but it reminded everyone that even the Great One can look disarmingly human when handed a pronunciation card instead of a puck.
And sharing that stage, as Essentially Sports relays, was Aaron Judge alongside Tom Brady, Shaquille O’Neal, and Gretzky himself, a star quartet whose championship imbalance sparked its own round of online teasing.[2] Here Gretzky played the role he knows best: ring‑heavy benchmark of greatness, the quiet north star by which a newer generation of superstars is still judged.[2]
Speculation about long term damage to his Canadian sainthood is just that speculation but the headlines of this week may end up as a defining late chapter in the Wayne Gretzky story.
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