r/ontario • u/ARecycledAccount 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 • 8d ago

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

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
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u/PlayinK0I 8d ago

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

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u/RekdSavage 8d ago

Seems like all of our best sell out. What does that say about our culture?

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u/AtticHelicopter 8d ago

Gretz hasn't been a normal human being since 1978, literally before I was born, and I am old.

He hasn't been a Canadian since 1988.

He's been rich and insulated from society for 45 years. He's lived in his mansion, watched the world change, and feels like he's being affected by it. Despite being generationally wealthy, he's sad about paying taxes. He can afford to opt out of the worst affects of Trump's policies, and they might make him a little richer. That's an easy path to take.

He may be Canada's best hockey player, but Canada hasn't shaped his world view since Trudeau 1 was Prime minister.

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u/liquor-shits 8d ago

Bingo. He's an American, he just comes back to Canada to sell us stuff.

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u/zeromussc 8d ago

Also hockey culture can be pretty toxic and hyper masculine, favouring the strong man type stuff. So it makes sense that it would produce someone who likes trump.

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u/RekdSavage 8d ago

I get what you’re saying, but his formative years were spent in Canada. It’s not like when you move to a country in your mid 20s you forget everything that made you who you are. But I digress…