Screencap of TODAY interview with Ellen Hughes via X
On Tuesday morning, Ellen Hughes, the mother of Team USA hockey stars Jack and Quinn Hughes, was asked by a TODAY anchor about her thoughts on Trump’s phone call to the team after their gold medal win.
A TODAY anchor asked Ellen Hughes, who serves as the player development consultant for Team USA women’s ice hockey, what her thoughts are on Trump jokingly telling the men’s team, “I must tell you, we’re going to have to bring the women’s team, you do know that, I do believe I probably would be impeached.”
Hughes responded, “At the end of the day, it’s all about the country.”
She added, “These players, both the men and women, can bring so much unity to a group and to a country.”
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Per NBC News:
Ellen Hughes, mom of Olympic men’s hockey stars Jack and Quinn Hughes and player development consultant for Team USA women’s ice hockey, shared her reaction to the viral video of President Trump congratulating the men’s team on the phone before joking about inviting the gold-medal winning women’s squad to the State of the Union.
“I must tell you, we’re going to have to bring the women’s team, you do know that,” Trump told the men’s team before adding if he didn’t, “I do believe I probably would be impeached.”
Asked about her response to the comment, Ellen Hughes said on TODAY Feb. 24 that “at the end of the day, it’s just about the country.”
“These players, both the men and women, can bring so much unity to a group and to a country,” she said. “People that cheered on that don’t watch hockey, people that have politics on one side or on the other side, and that’s all both the men’s team and the women’s team care about.”
Ellen Hughes has quite the hockey background herself.
Hughes was part of the 1992 U.S. Women’s National Team that won a silver medal at the 1992 IIHF Women’s World Championship.
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Ellen Hughes played for the USA Women’s Hockey Team in 1992.
Hughes then went on to live the American Dream: got married, had 3 sons and witnessed them beat Canada for a Gold Medal.
Her son is now an American hero… pic.twitter.com/ldp9J6Hc3f
— Michelle Maxwell (@MichelleMaxwell) February 24, 2026
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