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I even bought some Olympic gear.

Ralph Lauren tricked me into buying one of those snow bears.

And so, yeah, I've been full Olympics.

There's a couple of things I've noticed about this particular administration.

The president seems to be trying to almost take over sports.

This administration has been omnipresent in a lot of sporting events, not just the Olympics, but also a lot of the fighting events.

There's the whole UFC thing that's supposed to be happening in the White House.

More than, I think, any other president, the way in which he's trying to

rap sports into kind of a certain kind of aggressive agenda.

And so I think that allowing our American athletes themselves to define Americanism, and especially one example is like Khloe Kim.

When she didn't win the gold, she rushes over and she participates in like the celebration.

And that, to me, is what America is supposed to be, like being able to celebrate and cooperate with our global neighbors.

We've seen this happen over and over again, where in the hardest moments, America's been gracious in defeat.

And I think that's actually in its own way, even if they weren't trying to make a political statement.

giving a different picture of what America can be.

Not that we dominate everything, but whether we win, whether we lose, hopefully we treat people with some dignity and respect.

And I think that's been an interesting message from these Olympics that counters in its own way the aggressive nature of what the Trump administration has been doing vis-a-vis the rest of the world.

Sometimes I think we're a little bit unfair to our athletes because they spend their entire lives preparing to do a sport.

And some of them have political opinions and the ability to speak about them and to nuance them well.

But some people have opinions and this isn't their area of like the comfort of speaking in front of an audience.