Winter Olympian Pees A Message In The Snow For Trump Administration
Freestyle Olympic skier Gus Kenworthy published his protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement This week, it looks like he’s pissing his message into the snow.
In the photo Kenworthy shared on Instagram, the yellow message read “**** ice”.
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Kenworth appeared to confirm in another post: actually urinated the words.
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Kenworthy, who won a silver medal for the United States in 2014 and competed for Great Britain at the Milan Cortina Games, included a sample scenario so people can contact their senators and voice their objections to the Trump administration’s immigration policies. He concluded his words with an excited request.
“Innocent people have been killed and enough is enough,” he wrote. “We cannot expect ICE to continue operating with unchecked power in our communities. Senators still have influence right now, and Senator [Name] we must use this to demand real guardrails and accountability.
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Many athletes participating in the Games criticized the oppression, directly or through other means.
But Kenworthy may have been the first to do this with a bodily function.
“My last post was about peeing, so it only seemed appropriate to follow this up with a small batch of photos from January. Yes, I am a child. 💩,” she wrote in her follow-up post.
Olympic star rings out: Gus Kenworthy protested by urinating. Maddie Meyer via Getty Images
IOC It turned out that he approved He told the Guardian that Kenworthy would not be sanctioned because the organization “does not edit his personal social media posts”.
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So he will be free to compete freeski halfpipe In games.
