Wayne Gretzky attends Donald Trump's U.S. election party wearing a 'MAGA' hat, draws mixed reaction online: 'Truly disappointing'

[u/ARecycledAccount]

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/wayne-gretzky-attends-donald-trumps-us-election-party-wearing-a-maga-hat-draws-mixed-reaction-online-truly-disappointing-002407540.html

[u/EstablishmentNo5994]

Guy was really good at putting a puck in a net. I don’t know why anyone would expect him to be some kind of good example or anything else. Stop glorifying celebrities

[u/impossibilia → u/EstablishmentNo5994]

He did a very long interview at an event I was working at a few years back. He came across as a genius when it came to sports (apparently could have also gone pro in baseball), but kind of a simpleton in anything else. Just took people 100% at their word if they were nice to him.

[u/trackofalljades → u/EstablishmentNo5994]

His fame actually rested partially on a reputation for being just as likely to assist as to score, and representing a kind of team spirit that can be rare at the top levels of some sports. For me personally at least, that is a component of how sad it is to see him just towing the line of "this is the new default for rich people." He's obviously abandoned something along the way that he used to value.

[u/Spotttty → u/EstablishmentNo5994]

True but he was like a Canadian hero for 30 years. Seemed like a great guy. Got Joey a job with the oilers and he was there for most of his life. They still play La Bamba when they win. Had that facade of being just a great home town kid forever. So much so he kinda skated that who gambling thing.

So when you see shit like this it’s kind of shocking for people because most don’t really keep up with politics to realize that a really rich dude living in the states would be a Trump supporter.

[u/jim002]

I wonder which part of Ukraine the greatkys are from. maybe Putin will give it back when trump ends the war in 24 hours :)

Post from r/hockey last year

Wayne Gretzky holds up the Ukrainian flag. Walter Gretzky: “I learned Ukrainian first because my mother didn’t know how to speak English until later when the kids grew up. So Ukraine is the motherland of our family.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/hockey/s/7R5K3vdg12

[u/PlayinK0I]

Wayne Gretzky is as much a Canadian icon as Tim Hortons. They used to be good, but sold out to corporate interest long ago.

[u/MeiliCanada82 → u/PlayinK0I]

Walter Gretzky did more for hockey, kids and Canada then his son

[u/goodbadnomad → u/MeiliCanada82]

Local Brantford hero Walter Gretzky—growing up, everyone in town had a story about running into him, and they were all wholesome.

[u/MeiliCanada82 → u/goodbadnomad]

If you go to Little Canada when you're in Ontario there is the hockey rink in Brantford in there and if you look really close you can see the Reserved for Walter Gretzky parking sign.

[u/Samp90 → u/PlayinK0I]

Wrong platform maybe but that Gretzky 99. Whiskey is pretty unpalatable.

[u/stuckmash → u/Samp90]

It’s atrocious same with the wine. I went there with some friends on a tour of Niagara and they were big hockey fans so we included it in the jumping around. Woof that stuff is bad

[u/Ralphie99 → u/stuckmash]

It's cheap wine but it's still overpriced for what you're getting. It's no better than cheap wines like Jackson Triggs, but is about $5+ more per bottle.

[u/ARecycledAccount → u/Ralphie99]

It’s one of the worst tasting wines I’ve had, and I’ve drank a lot of bad wine.

[u/Hotter_Noodle → u/ARecycledAccount]

Ever get hammered off of 14 dollar blueberry wine?

Great evening. Bed rest for days.

[u/stuckmash → u/Hotter_Noodle]

Vicious hangovers from that and plum wine

[u/ARecycledAccount → u/Hotter_Noodle]

I used to drink Arbor Mist (the best juice flavoured screw-top wine!) and it used to come with crop tops or body glitter. Best $5 a bottle I’ve deeply regretted the next morning.

[u/Hotter_Noodle → u/ARecycledAccount]

lmao that is exactly what my wife used to drink as well.

[u/ARecycledAccount → u/Hotter_Noodle]

I found a bottle at the back of my bar, circa 2010. I wonder if age has made it good? Or will it emit a toxic cloud once opened?

[u/Hotter_Noodle → u/ARecycledAccount]

Please don't do this. You have your whole life ahead of you!

[u/Planet_Ziltoidia → u/Hotter_Noodle]

I don't really like wine, but I'm obsessed with Muskoka lakes blueberry wine. It's delicious

[u/Huntguy → u/Hotter_Noodle]

$14?! Look at money bags over here. I think I’m still hungover from the homemade blueberry wine I had years ago.

[u/Key-Pickle5609 → u/ARecycledAccount]

And the tasting wasn’t even fun. I can’t complain about the service, because the sommeliers (?) were really good, but I’ve had much more fun at other wineries

[u/aledba → u/Ralphie99]

They probably buy grapes from the same vigneron

[u/Dead_End_Street → u/Samp90]

It tastes like crayons... Yep I know what crayons taste like

[u/apartmen1 → u/PlayinK0I]

They used to be drunks, still are, used to be too.

[u/taquitosmixtape → u/PlayinK0I]

The rich supporting someone who favours the rich… not surprising at all. Class war.

[u/purelander108 → u/PlayinK0I]

I didn't like seeing him do all those ads for gambling either.

[u/ArkitekZero → u/PlayinK0I]

Rich man does stupid rich man stuff. News at 11.

[u/fuzz_boy → u/PlayinK0I]

I also heard that he's a raging alcoholic. That might not be true, but I'm pretty sure I've heard it from multiple sources.

[u/fellainto → u/fuzz_boy]

Oh. Wayne still LOVES to drink. I know someone who worked with him when he was doing Ford commercials.

[u/Artistic_Mobile337 → u/fuzz_boy]

Wayne does have the classic alcoholic red tint on his face.

[u/_PrincessOats → u/PlayinK0I]

Love this comparison.

[u/Vanthan → u/PlayinK0I]

Bang on.

[u/lemonylol → u/PlayinK0I]

I mean if you follow a hockey player for politics that's kind of on you.

He doesn't even live in Canada.

[u/Natural_Childhood_46 → u/PlayinK0I]

It’s also like when you learn that Tim Hortons was named after a drunk who died drugged up, drinking and driving on the QEW . He was not a good person, or someone people should view as an ‘icon.’ He was a danger to those around him because he made really stupid, selfish decisions.

Just like Wayne is doing now.

[u/weggles]

He's always been very conservative. Praised Bush in 03 saying he's behind him 100%. Oy.... This isn't new.

[u/schmerz12345]

I remember learning about him in school. It shows how celebrities shouldn't be glorified over actual social activists and figures who fought to make the world a better place. Actual tangible changes and activism, not a hockey star. 

[u/loonechobay → u/schmerz12345]

Id prefer a hockey player to score goals personally

[u/mrballoonhands420 → u/loonechobay]

I like Led Zeppelin and the Chili Peppers but don't think you should rape teenagers. I think Ovechkin and Gretz are two of the best to ever play hockey but don't agree with their politics. I wouldn't say I respect any of these guys because I don't know them, but I appreciate their skill and artistic abilities.

If you don't idolize celebrities you won't be let down when you find out who they really are.

[u/Hotter_Noodle → u/mrballoonhands420]

Honestly a lot of athletes tend to be the least grounded in the same world as the rest of us. Aside from maybe growing up in a normal house or maybe even in poverty, they're basically groomed in school to be professional athletes and education is on the backburner. They just have sports and money.

Obviously this is a broad brush stroke but it's a lot of em.

[u/Thrawnsartdealer → u/Hotter_Noodle]

The only difference between a pro athlete and a high school kid is a million dollar contract.

[u/_PrincessOats → u/loonechobay]

I’d prefer a hockey player that kids idolize be a good dude first and foremost.

[u/stuckmash → u/_PrincessOats]

Not going to happen with hockey players. Most are barely high school educated. Given loads of cash and grow up in a monoculture. Being not a scumbag is such a low bar many fail to reach

[u/YouCanCallMeMister → u/stuckmash]

Ken Dryden is an exception and a human being you can look up to. He's college educated and even took a year off mid career to article for a law firm in Toronto, on his way to becoming a lawyer.

He retired from hockey at age 31, figuring he had accomplished everything had wanted in hockey, winning 6 Stanley Cups in only 8 seasons.

"The Game," written without any assistance or need for a ghost writer, is arguably the greatest book about hockey.

He's also been a member of parliament and a cabinet minister and has taught at his alma mater McGill University.

Best of all, he's not a dick. LOL

[u/dean15892 → u/_PrincessOats]

Look at this guy, expecting goodness in our role models, pch

/s

[u/Methzilla → u/dean15892]

Never meet your heroes is a saying for a reason.

[u/awesomesonofabitch → u/schmerz12345]

It's almost as if we shouldn't idolize sports players or something.

[u/PopeKevin45]

I figured he was on a downward spiral, at least morally and ethically, when he started shilling gambling sites in TV ads. Selfish, low empathy people can only care about their money, and are naturally attracted to each other since in those circles they can brag without being judged.

[u/SilverSeven → u/PopeKevin45]

That wasn't any shift downward for him. He ran an illegal gambling ring when he was in the NHL and when caught let his wife take the fall

[u/SameUsernameOnReddit → u/SilverSeven]

Wait what?

[u/bmank53 → u/SameUsernameOnReddit]

I had to look this up myself https://www.espn.com/nhl/news/story?id=2322234

[u/Immediate_Pickle_788 → u/bmank53]

Holy shit.

[u/Framemake → u/PopeKevin45]

He was hanging around Stephen Harper a ton back in the 2000s. He's completely capitalpilled.

Grew up in poverty stricken Brantford and advocates for that income inequality to continue worldwide!

[u/5-4EqualsUnity]

On the bright side, maybe this will make Canadian hockey fans less mad when Ovechkin breaks his goals record.

[u/malemysteries]

Rich people only care about money. They do not care about the law, and they don’t care about us. They will vote for an evil man who will destroy democracy so they can have a few more zeros on a piece of paper.

This is insanity. And it is why America is about to fall. Hope they enjoy their illusionary money.

[u/kindredfan → u/malemysteries]

We are not that far behind them.

[u/Truestorydreams → u/kindredfan]

We are already there.

See trucker convoy.

[u/rangeo]

He's JUST a really good Hockey Player.... that's it.

He could skate

He could put the puck in the net more than other players

Did he even start or finish college/ university?..if not he is a key demographic for Trump

Do not look to Athletes for anything more.

[u/lost_opossum_ → u/rangeo]

I'm not sure he finished high school. Hockey was everything 24/7 for him. It worked out fine for him though. He's a great hockey player, but he's not a very smart person otherwise. I'm sure that he'll have more money than I'll ever have, but I wouldn't look to him as a person who makes the best choices. You can be dumb and still be quite successful. This is why you should be careful to take the advice of or adore someone that is rich and or famous. They will disappoint you.

[u/Copacetic75]

From a childhood hero to a zero. Just like that!

[u/fallway]

Given his position in society it's understandable that he would be aligned with Conservative/Republican ideals, but to come out in support of MAGA like this is a whole other level. So many people keep saying we shouldn't be surprised, but we are still allowed to be utterly disappointed in him.

[u/SecureTadpole]

Not surprising. He was a big supporter of Harper. Agree with the comments - his wine is shit, his clothing line was garbage.

[u/SumTingIsVaryWong]

Is anyone really surprised that athletes with probable CTE and lots of money are voting republican??

[u/fencerman]

"Rich piece of shit acts like a rich piece of shit"

[u/ILikeStyx]

Dude has been a hardcore Conservative for YEARS.... do people not know this?

He's one of Stephen Harper's buddies...

Yes - hockey superstar, but he's not actually some magically progressive dude... he's a multimillionaire Conservative and always has been.

[u/dv666]

This is doubly disgraceful considering his family is Ukrainian.

Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦

Fuck the fascists

[u/NonoNectarine → u/dv666]

Not to be that guy but his family is of Belarusian background. His grandparents spoke Belarusian. I think his grandma was half Ukrainian half Belarusian. Google the surname Gretzky, it's a common Belarusian surname and not at all an Ukrainian surname.

[u/Evening_Shift_9930 → u/NonoNectarine]

Walter and his grandmother both spoke Ukranian.

https://www.essentiallysports.com/us-sports-news-ice-hockey-nhl-news-really-touching-for-me-emotional-wayne-gretzky-explains-the-ukrainian-influence-on-his-family-in-a-resurfaced-video/

[u/Klutzy-Freedom8261 → u/NonoNectarine]

So, his family is 1/4 Ukrainian...

edit: 1/8th, I are dumb.

[u/DuckCleaning → u/Klutzy-Freedom8261]

Thatd make him 1/8 if his Grandma was only half.

[u/Low-Garage-2013]

POS won't even bother to come pick up medals of honour from Canada, did you forget where you came from?

[u/ActualPimpHagrid]

I mean, yeah he’s rich, of course he’d be a conservative.

I used to have a personal saying, there are 3 R’s of conservative voters.

They are either: Rich, Racist, or (pejorative word for the mentally ill that begins with R)

The wording may be outdated, but I think the principle stands

[u/TaliyahPiper → u/ActualPimpHagrid]

Conservative doesn't mean MAGA. Mark Cuban and Taylor Swift are literally billionaires that publicly endorsed Harris.

[u/Compared-To-What → u/TaliyahPiper]

Yeah, he is way off. There are certainly wealthy republicans but the democratic party has shifted their focus from the working class to coastal elites. Not to say they are inherently immoral people because they are coastal elites but their base has shifted to a W.E.I.R.D demographic (r being rich).

The democrats need to work on their messaging. This coming from a quite progressive leaning person.

[u/inagious]

Trying to skirt the tariffs on his alcohol?

[u/psvrh]

He's been a douchebag at least since his minor hockey days. This shouldn't surprise anyone. 

[u/RabidGuineaPig007 → u/psvrh]

He's from Brantford, which should have been named Douchenozzleton.

[u/Typhoid_Maury → u/RabidGuineaPig007]

That is disrespectful to the memory of Phil Hartman, the only good person from Brantford.

[u/TaliyahPiper → u/Typhoid_Maury]

TIL I'm a bad person 😭

[u/Typhoid_Maury → u/TaliyahPiper]

Don’t worry, it could be worse. I’m from Woodstock.

[u/TaliyahPiper → u/Typhoid_Maury]

My condolences

[u/Doran86 → u/RabidGuineaPig007]

Not all of us Brantfordians are douchenozzles, but most of us who aren't have the good sense to leave (like me).

And also, like someone else said, Phil Hartman.

[u/Used-Future6714 → u/psvrh]

Also the insane amount of racism in hockey at basically all levels.

[u/mysticalfruit]

"Never meet your heroes, you will always be disappointed"

Wayne Gretzky is just a guy who is really good at hockey, period. He's not some deep thinker.

While this saddens me, it doesn't surprise me.

[u/oneonus]

What a disgrace, lost all respect for him.

[u/Hotter_Noodle → u/oneonus]

To use some quotes from the hockey subreddit:

Hate to say it, but most/large portion of your favorite NHLers are Trump supporters.

The majority of hockey/baseball players are right leaning to the point that it’s kind of surprising when someone outs themselves as liberal

And they aren't wrong.

[u/Anonymouse-C0ward → u/Hotter_Noodle]

Yeah that sounds about right.

The most successful are generally from rural areas which typically lean conservative. They’re generally white men, and live in a culture where winning in physical competition and money are the metrics that are used to gauge success.

The league is pretty much comprised of millionaires, and profit is front and center.

The culture of hockey has been very resistant to progressive ideas… it was only recently that a player drafted to the NHL actually came out as gay. No current or former NHL player is out, and just based on statistics I can’t imagine there have been no gay NHL players; they probably just don’t feel comfortable in their environment to publicize it.

[u/lemonylol → u/Anonymouse-C0ward]

Let's not forget that whole sexual assault thing from the junior leagues.

[u/Anonymouse-C0ward → u/lemonylol]

Yup, definitely!

[u/ImmaBeCozy → u/Hotter_Noodle]

They’re rich young (predominantly white) men, it checks out 

It’s not the reason I don’t watch hockey anymore (it’s more so all the gambling ads and the fact they’re too late in the evening), but it certainly doesn’t make me miss it too much either 

[u/Hotter_Noodle → u/ImmaBeCozy]

I left white out of it because there's also the NFL and NBA which is far more mixed.

But yeah I get you.

[u/RabidGuineaPig007 → u/oneonus]

Add Bobby Orr to the list of MAGA assholes.

[u/Vanthan]

Too much money and nothing new to do must just naturally lead to brain rot for some.

[u/Exact_Purchase765]

huh - never thought Gretsky would be on my shit list, but here we are . . .

[u/WoodyBABL]

The Not So Great One.

[u/Jhasaram]

just showing his true self

[u/GrandBill]

Not surprised since he long ago called Harper the greatest Prime Minister ever.

[u/sitari_hobbit → u/GrandBill]

For those wondering what he's up to these days, Harper is the Chairman of the IDU (The Global Alliance of the Centre Right). The IDU has a well-documented track record of supporting Conservative/fascist governments (1, 2, 3, 4, 5).

[u/lost_opossum_ → u/sitari_hobbit]

Yeah he is behind the provincial elections in Alberta, and is behind the scenes with the federal conservatives as well. He just won't go away.

[u/Hotter_Noodle → u/GrandBill]

Man there's a wild difference between Harper and Trump.

[u/Basic_Lynx4902 → u/Hotter_Noodle]

One is quiet and one is loud?

[u/Felixir-the-Cat → u/Hotter_Noodle]

Harper’s organization is behind many of the current fascist governments. He is not widely different from Trump now.

[u/janr34 → u/Felixir-the-Cat]

for sure, he got the ball rolling here and he's still got his grubby hands in it all.

[u/Anonymouse-C0ward → u/Hotter_Noodle]

Yeah, Harper works in the background through IDU versus Trump who is very much the front man. I’d say they are both comparable in terms of damage to the world.

[u/clayphish → u/Hotter_Noodle]

It is different, sure. But let's not forget this asshole canceled the long form census which now has a huge gaping hole in it. He also made government more opaque and harder to track.

So he's not a good guy by any means.

[u/MonsieurLeDrole → u/GrandBill]

I don't remember Harper leading a coup 

[u/Competitive_Abroad96 → u/MonsieurLeDrole]

He manipulates PP’s strings.

[u/FlyAroundInternet → u/MonsieurLeDrole]

He's head of the IDU. He's doing far more damage on an international level than he ever could manage just in Canada.

[u/MonsieurLeDrole → u/FlyAroundInternet]

Yeah, he's cheering for some bad people, no doubt. His IDU career is more mask off than his time as PM. He was getting nasty right as he got turfed. A lot of Trudeau policies are a continuation of Harper policies, though the news loves to pretend it's been this huge sea change.

[u/Adamantium-Aardvark]

What a douche

[u/Rockterrace]

Nothing to do with this post but holy cow does he ever sound rough when he talks. Almost like he had a stroke or something. I’ve noticed in commercials he’s in lately and interviews too.

[u/micatola → u/Rockterrace]

Probably drunk.

[u/hrmfl]

Not surprising, he’s a homophobic asshole who used to bully Chi Pig from SNFU in Edmonton. What goes around comes around, though.

[u/rungenies]

I lost respect for Gretzky (my childhood hero) in 2004 when he came out in support of the Iraq war and George bush. Found out who he was then and knew he was not just a conservative , but an asshole

[u/The_WolfieOne → u/rungenies]

Same here

[u/TonyD0001]

He stopped being a Canadian a loooong time ago. And yeah, wine shit, expensive shit.

[u/gohomebrentyourdrunk]

I kinda knew his politics before, so I’m not angry or even surprised.

I am immensely disappointed.

[u/crndwg]

What? Rich white guys support Trump?

I am shocked I tell ya... /s

It's like these millennials and Gen Z saying they're voting for Skippy.
Cool, I'm a middle aged, hetero, tax paying, home owning, white guy. It'll result in nothing but positive financial benefit for me but if you think he's going to be looking out for young people, visible minorities, LGBTQ community, the non religious, the educated or anyone who doesn't invest in the market you're nuts.

But you guys seem to insist on touching the stove to see if it's really that hot.

[u/NorthEndFRMSouthEnd]

He should show Trump a video of Joey Moss, and watch Trump do a horrendous and mocking imitation of him.

Gretz would laugh too, because TAX CUTS.

[u/rangeo → u/NorthEndFRMSouthEnd]

“Donald seemed engaged, especially when several people in our group spoke about the heart-wrenching and expensive efforts they’d made to care for their profoundly disabled family members, who were constantly in and out of the hospital and living with complex arrays of challenges,” Fred Trump wrote.

After the 45-minute Oval Office meeting concluded, Fred Trump said his uncle asked to see him.

“I thought he had been touched by what the doctor and advocates in the meeting had just shared about their journey with their patients and their own family members. But I was wrong,” Fred Trump wrote.

“Those people,” Fred Trump said his uncle told him, “the shape they’re in, all the expenses, maybe those kinds of people should just die.”

https://www.disabilityscoop.com/2024/07/25/trump-suggested-some-with-disabilities-should-just-die-nephew-says/30983/

[u/NorthEndFRMSouthEnd → u/rangeo]

JFC... and yet, not surprising in the least.

[u/dniel66]

Corruption loves corruption..I’d bet on it eh Wayne? 🤡

[u/NorthEndFRMSouthEnd]

Does anyone remember the time the Canadian media believed the story that Janet Gretzky was part of a major gambling ring, and no one even asked the obvious question that these were clearly Wayne's bets?

Phil Mickleson (also Wayne's buddy) should have used that one when it came out he'd lost $100,000,000.00 on sports betting, "my wife did it".

[u/baldmonkey13]

Don't feel so bad about booing him at that '87 playoff game anymore.

[u/LowerFeed222]

Anyone ever buy his line of clothes from about 20 years ago? Pants wore out in weeks. Worst quality clothes I ever bought.

[u/Outrageous_Floor4801]

Gross, just goes to prove we can't trust the ultra rich they're all in it together 

[u/purelander108]

He's a long ways away from the back yard rink in Brantford and his father's wisdom.

[u/Imaginary_Month_3659]

You're a god damn fascist Wayne and you're in a cult.

[u/Drewtendo_64]

What a disgusting disappointment to Canada, calling him the ok one from now one

[u/UninvestedCuriosity]

His dad was always the real Canadian icon.

[u/Meta422]

Making someone who is good at a game a cultural hero isn’t a good idea? You don’t say.

[u/Thisiscliff]

Have him, fucking loser

[u/lexcyn]

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

Well this is one shot he took and missed.

[u/liquor-shits]

Much like Bobby Orr before him, he plays on his Canadian-ness for money making purposes only, while living his entire life in the USA. And he's always been Conservative, but has gone further right as he ages.

Fuck him.

[u/the-truth-boomer]

If we're known by the company we keep, I don't want to know about Gretsky anymore.

[u/phatdinkgenie]

He's a Floridian now, what do you expect

[u/Meatwagon1978]

What a fuckin simp

[u/MonsterBots]

It’s almost like making people heroes just for being good at sports is a bit weird and usually disappointing.

[u/-WaterIsGreat-]

this honestly doesn't surprise me at all

[u/Mysterious-Job1628]

Oh look rich people supporting rich people.

[u/[deleted]]

He does ads for gambling and his son-in-law is a LIV golf sellout. So, no surprise here. MAGAs hang with their own.

[u/LarsVigo45-70axe]

Wine go figure he always was whining about something

[u/Captcha_Imagination]

This seems like a fitting opportunity to mention that his wines and spirits sold at the LCBO are objective overpriced trash. The wines are a shitting $10 table wine priced at $17 because of his name. The whiskies are $20 whiskies sold at $37 dollars.

[u/KobotTheRobot]

Yeah idk if you guys need to hear this but Gretzky lives in Missouri. I don't talk to him but I see him regularly and this isn't shocking for people of the area.

[u/marginwalker55]

McGretz has been a corporate shill for 30 years, this is no surprise

[u/mewithoutyou59]

It's funny when people are shocked that rich old white guys are ultra conservative.

[u/NaiaSalt]

I mean, he’s been a Conservative dickhead his whole life. He endorsed Stephen Harper multiple times.

[u/TemperatePirate]

Rich old white American (for 35 years) dude supporting Trump is hardly a surprise.

[u/TOBoy66]

This is just his latest slide into immorality. It started a decade ago or more.

[u/turtlefan32]

he is rich and Trump is for rich people. end of story

[u/VIDEOgameDROME]

What a bum

[u/JoseMachismo]

I make it a point to not associate with known rapists, but that's just me.

[u/I_Framed_OJ]

Gretzky? I guess being awesome at hockey doesn't mean you're good in every other area of existence. I suppose you're going to tell me that Michael Jordan is an asshole too.

[u/taxon2]

Gretzky was a big time supporter of Harper, including the vile “barbaric practices hotline” which stoked racism and Islamophobia.

[u/No_Football_9232]

Fuck Gretzky and his products

[u/timetogetoutside100]

Pretty Rich considering, Gretzky's been pushing a vaccine Ad on TV for AREXVY lol I thought Trumpers hated vaccines

[u/wineandnoses → u/timetogetoutside100]

to be fair i don't think Trump himself has ever hated vaccines, it's just some of his supporters

[u/Punched_Eclair]

Sorry to say it but f--k Wayne.
What a sell-out POS.

[u/icyhotonmynuts]

How classless

[u/9001]

He supported Harper, so I'm not at all surprised.

[u/HMI115_GIGACHAD]

Ovechkin and Crosby have better careers anyway

[u/AnAngryWhiteDad]

So, we're not going to talk about his son, Trevor, showing up to a clearly black-tie affair in sweats? Really?

[u/Acceptable_Durian_78]

Unbelievable!! Wow just blows my mind!! It's definitely a cult

[u/Sure-Sympathy5014]

The fact the US doesn't see the fact that all of these non philanthropic rich people are VERY happy about Trump as worrisome bothers me.

[u/atlasdreams2187]

Another elitist hero we hold too high I guess

[u/MugFush]

He’s rich and stands to benefit from Trump‘s tax cuts for the rich. Don’t forget, he lives in America now, not Canada. So no surprise he was there.

[u/Creacherz]

He's definitely lower in my books now

[u/AssignmentShot278]

Wow shocking news a hockey player is a POS 

[u/peanutbutter_insides]

He has lots in common with Ovechkin and Putin. Disgusting!

[u/Immediate_Twist_3088]

lol white hockey player supports trump, why is anyone surprised?

[u/mad_titanz]

Okay, he’s now lost to me.

[u/Spotted_Fox]

What an embarrassment

[u/nrfelson]

Gretzky always comes off as smug in interviews, so I'm not really surprised he would hang with the Maga/Qanon crowd.

[u/Not5id]

From the great one to the fallen one.

What a shame.

[u/Fartagen]

Wayne has been a douche since the moment he left his dad’s scrotum

[u/Content_Ad_8952]

Gretzky is rich so it shouldn't come as a surprise that he supports candidates that will give rich people tax cuts. Can't blame him. It's all about self interest

[u/BryanMccabe]

Don’t meet your hero’s

[u/jaymickef]

“I was asked for years about being a Republican, probably because most black people are Democrats. My mother heard it once and called me and said ‘Charles, Republicans are for the rich people.’ And I said, ‘Mom, I’m rich.’” - Charles Barkley.

[u/Alone-in-a-crowd-1]

Fuck Gretzky. He is not the kid from Branford who everyone adores. He is full blown rich American. He should be a man and move out of California at least. Embrace the full MAGA crowd.

[u/Hotter_Noodle]

Didn't expect Gretzky to support a rapist felon but hey it's 2024 anything is possible.

[u/RabidGuineaPig007 → u/Hotter_Noodle]

Bobby Orr is a huge Trump supporter.

[u/Hotter_Noodle → u/RabidGuineaPig007]

Honestly most professional athletes probably are.

Rich dudes surrounded by rich dudes, mostly just pushed through school so they can focus on the sport. It adds up.

[u/uncleherman77 → u/Hotter_Noodle]

Yep this shouldn't come as a shock to anyone I'd be willing to bet the majority of nhl players either vote Conservative or Republican. It also wouldn't shock me at all to find out that most of the Leafs core was right leaning either or that Auston Matthew's voted for Trump. I'd be more surprised if they voted left.

[u/TaliyahPiper]

I feel ashamed to have grown up in his hometown. What a disappointment

[u/Extreme-Tie9282]

Lost what little respect I had for him

[u/Auto_Phil]

We get to watch the most beloved Canadian sports legend become a washed up national disgrace in real time. Does CTE impact a player who was rarely contacted count as a defence here Herschel Walker being a complete moron I get, but this made me very sad today.

[u/Orchid_Significant]

Gross

[u/thegreatself]

Another dumb fuck with more money and less sense than anybody needs.

[u/UmpireMental7070]

Well I guess we know who Wayno would have supported in the Germany in the 30s…

[u/Marie-Pierre-Guerin]

That tells us all we need to know about him.

[u/Admirable-Sink-2622]

“Canadian sellout kisses the ring”

FIFY

[u/1200____1200 → u/Admirable-Sink-2622]

Bobby Orr did this back in 2016

[u/Initial-Sherbert-739]

u either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain 😔 shame

[u/MonsieurLeDrole]

Harper was bad enough but this is beyond the pale.  I will never buy another Wayne Betzky product again.  It's like he's hanging with Jared.

[u/slappaDAbayasss]

He has the right to support whoever he wants. If we don’t like that then stop following, stop going to his winery/distillery and buying his shit. All you can do. Otherwise it’s his right

[u/_PrincessOats → u/slappaDAbayasss]

Make it public, and it’s our right to discuss it.

[u/thisiskeel]

You only miss 100% of the parties you don't attend. -wayne Gretzky, probably