What did Donald Trump do today?

He got told "no" by women, which he hates.

The United States women's hockey team played perennial favorite Canada in the gold medal game at the Olympics last Thursday. They won in dramatic fashion, with a goal in overtime making the final score 2-1.

 

Two days later, the US men's team did the same thing, against the same powerhouse opponent, in the same way, with the same score. 

Yesterday, Trump called to congratulate the men's team, inviting them to hear his State of the Union speech tomorrow. In the course of the call, he insulted the women's team, sarcastically apologizing that he would "have" to invite the women as well, laughing and saying he was only doing it because he'd be impeached if he didn't.

Today, the women's team refused Trump's offer as a team, citing schedule conflicts as an excuse—even though any of the individual 23 players could go if they were available.

This isn't the first time Trump has been snubbed by athletes. In fact, American athletes decline Trump's invitations almost as often as they accept them, sometimes because of political differences and sometimes because the camera-hungry Trump has picked fights with them before the games are even won.

Trump offered to send a "military plane" to pick up the men's hockey team, although they're not all in the same place after returning from Italy, and it's not clear whether they'll attend Trump's speech at all. But government planes have already played a role in this story: one of them took Trump's FBI Director, Kash Patel, to and from the games just to see the men's team play. Patel was then escorted to the locker room to join in the celebrations—contradicting earlier Trump administration claims that he hadn't gone at all. (Patel, who criticized his predecessor for using the same plane, had previously been caught using the FBI jet to ferry his girlfriend around.)

A later explanation said that Patel, a former podcaster and political operative with no actual law enforcement experience prior to being installed by Trump, was there to check up on Olympic security. The games ended the following day.
 

Why does this matter?

• Treating women differently from men who have identical accomplishments is misogyny. 

• A misogynist who was in mental and emotional control of himself would still have been able to keep from saying this shit out loud and on tape.

• It's not good if a presidential administration can't go a single week without yet another controversy over the misuse of government jets.