White Home Communications Director Steven Cheung cried foul over the choice to call Canada’s Connor McDavid as probably the most invaluable participant of the Winter Olympics males’s ice hockey event.
McDavid earned the accolade regardless of Canada’s thrilling 2-1 loss to the U.S. in Sunday’s showdown finale at Milan Cortina 2026.
Cheung slammed the transfer and deployed a phrase that President Donald Trump regularly makes use of to falsely declare that the 2020 election, which was gained by Joe Biden, was stolen from him.
“RIGGED!” Cheung wrote on X, the Elon Musk-owned platform previously often called Twitter, quote-posting the information.
And the Trump aide added: “@usahockey’s Jack Hughes and Connor Hellebuyck ought to have been named co-MVP’s for his or her heroics.”

