The Stack: Ashamed of America on the World Stage
Conservative, not bitter—my friends, today’s Toddcast dives into a troubling trend on the world stage. President Trump calls out Olympic skier Hunter Hess after comments expressing “mixed emotions” about representing the United States. Todd explains why it’s not un-American to criticize policy—but it is deeply revealing to publicly shame the country that made your success possible.
From immigration enforcement and media manipulation to gratitude for America’s founding principles, Todd lays out why pride in this nation still matters. He reflects on history, freedom, faith, and the unmatched role America has played in advancing liberty around the world. Free speech is protected—but so is the right to respond with truth, clarity, and conviction.
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📝 Transcript: Ashamed of America on the World Stage
The Todd Huff Show – February 10, 2026
Todd Huff: Conservative, not bitter indeed. My friends. Thank you for tuning in today’s Toddcast. It’s my pleasure to be here today. I want to talk about a couple things. One thing that happened over the weekend, something else that happened, I believe it was yesterday, on The View. Yes, my friends, The View. I know—we talk about The View from time to time on this program. Andy Beshear, the governor of Kentucky, was on there, and he was talking about one issue in particular and how his faith was, I guess, central to his decision to veto the legislation. So I want to talk about that because these things matter to me. I think they matter in our society overall, and that’s where we want to head today.
Todd Huff: So thank you for tuning in, my friends. Yeah. Let’s get to it. Today, I’m glancing here at notes, but my friends, before we get started, if you’re curious about kratom or you’re just trying to figure out who you can trust—in fact, I had a longtime friend text me yesterday who had listened to the program. He had heard me mention Christopher’s Organic Botanicals and kratom, and he told me that he had tried what he now believes to be the synthetic garbage I was talking about when he was on a trip to another city years ago. And he understood. He understood that there’s some bad stuff out there and that natural kratom is much different than synthetic kratom sold by some shady people who’ve taken shortcuts and don’t offer a clean product.
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Todd Huff: So let’s begin here. I want to talk about Trump going after who he calls a loser. A loser. A loser who made comments about hating America. He’s an Olympic athlete. This is an article in the New York Post. This happened over the weekend, I guess, but I wanted to talk. Headline here: Trump slams “loser” Olympian Hunter Hess over mixed emotions representing the United States. I’m going to read a bit from this. President Donald Trump bashed Team USA Olympic—hold on here, I got a pop-up. A pop-up that’s covering my article. The heck is going on here?
Todd Huff: Bashed Team USA Olympic skier Hunter Hess for expressing mixed emotions while representing the Stars and Stripes at the Milan Winter Olympic Games. “U.S. Olympic skier Hunter Hess—a real loser,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. Capital L, by the way. “Says he doesn’t represent his country. Says, and it’s too bad he’s on it. Very hard to root for someone like this. Make America Great Again.” To that point, it is hard. Is it not? I can agree with that sentiment—that it is hard to root for someone on Team USA who is out there complaining about America.
Todd Huff: Listen, we all understand. We all understand that America is not a perfect country. We all understand that America has people—right, people in it—and people are not perfect. We understand that there are policies, elections that you may not like or agree with or whatever. But why does that make you—this has always puzzled me. I mean, I understand in the sense that this guy, he’s either gotten the memo, he’s been around this enough to know that this is how you score points with the media. This is how you get attention from the media. This is how you get fawned over by the media. But he also may be a true believer in this stuff. You can’t underestimate that either.
Todd Huff: He may really believe what he says here, which I’ll get to in a moment. The article continues here. Multiple Olympians, including U.S. figure skater Amber Glenn and British-American skier Gus Kenworthy, have criticized the Trump administration at this year’s Games, particularly for its “polarizing approach to immigration enforcement.” It’s only polarizing—I talk about this stuff every day—the tactics and the definition of words and terms that are used to try to further the cause of the left, which, by the way, is lawlessness and open borders.
Todd Huff: And to try to position itself in a position to win the argument against conservatives, against people who believe in the rule of law. I can see right through these. The tactics are so crystal clear to me at this point, it’s so mind-numbing to listen to some of these things. It’s not polarizing. How is it polarizing to enforce the law? It is wild to me that we have gotten to this point. We have a massive problem with illegal immigration that has been caused by complete neglect for decades and decades along the southern border. We’ve talked about this just a lot. I know. But this problem—just because you’ve stopped the problem from getting worse doesn’t mean that you don’t have a heck of a mess to clean up now. And that’s what we’re doing. What is this? And listen, I like the New York Post here. I’m not trying to get on who wrote this piece. I’m not trying to get on Cooper Albers here, who wrote the piece.
Todd Huff: But what do you mean the polarizing approach to immigration enforcement? That is not—why can’t you say for enforcing the law, for deporting illegal aliens? That’s what this is about. You’re telling me it’s about a polarizing approach. It’s only polarizing. It’s amazing. I can’t deal with it. I don’t want to. The older you get, the less you care about dealing with stupid, and I don’t care to deal with this anymore. Enforcing the law is not polarizing. Just like I heard Mayor—what’s the mayor of Chicago? Brandon—I can’t think of his last name at the moment—but I saw he was being interviewed on MSNBC or something like that. And he made the comments that, you know, well first of all, did you know that there’s been a 30% drop in the homicide rate since Trump’s increased enforcement in the city of Chicago?
Todd Huff: The mayor—which I’m waiting on—what is it—Johnson. Brandon Johnson, the mayor of Chicago. He comes out and he acknowledges almost in passing, well yeah, the murder rate and I think the gun violence or gun crime rate, all these things have dropped like 30%. But he wants to take the credit for that. Like Michael Scott. Michael Scott wanted to take all of the credit and none of the blame for the Willy Wonka golden ticket idea. But Brandon Johnson wants to do the same. He wants all the credit for the reduction in violence and the homicide rate and all that gun violence. But he doesn’t want to acknowledge—the other part of his statement was where ICE agents are present, there is an increase in violence, as though that’s the problem of ICE. No, no, no. The problem with that is that the people are obstructing and breaking the law with ICE. That’s the problem.
Todd Huff: So they say, well look, wherever ICE shows up, there’s more problems. Yeah, because you are causing the problems, Mayor Johnson. In fact, you’re actually just like Jacob Frey, just like Tim Walz, just like J.B. Pritzker. You are fueling this. You are giving the people who are out there a belief, an argument, some nonsensical drivel that they take as a calling card to do whatever they want to do. And they believe that they’re on the moral side of history here, that they’re on the right side of this. They are not on the right side of this. And so if it’s polarizing—immigration enforcement is polarizing—it’s because the people who are getting upset about it are the ones who don’t want to follow the law. That’s what’s polarizing. There’s nothing polarizing about this.
Todd Huff: I understand if you want to change the law, but you don’t change the law by breaking the law and obstructing the law from being enforced by the people who are supposed to enforce it. It’s just crazy talk here, even in this New York Post article, who I typically have no problems with. But we continue here. It was the 27-year-old Hess, a fixture on the U.S. national team since 2017, who received a direct response from the commander in chief. Speaking with reporters on Friday last week, Team USA skiers—particularly Hess—sparked controversy by explaining that wearing the American flag doesn’t signify his support of everything going on back in the States. Here’s what he said: “It brings up mixed emotions to represent the U.S. right now.” Oh, cry me a river, Hunter Hess. You’ve got to be kidding me.
Todd Huff: “It brings up mixed emotions to represent the U.S. right now.” Oh, cry me a river, Hunter Hess. You’ve got to be kidding me. “It’s a little hard,” he continues. “There’s obviously a lot going on that I’m not the biggest fan of, and I think a lot of people aren’t.” Well, maybe in your circle, Hunter, but there are a lot of people cheering on—finally—a country that’s enforcing its laws. Finally, a country that has decided it has a border that it’s going to secure. Hunter, there are a lot of people that are cheering this sort of thing on.
Todd Huff: I don’t know if you’ve looked at the polls, but a lot of people are very content and believe that these things need to be enforced and the people that are in this country illegally need to be deported. And by the way, even if they didn’t, that doesn’t change the law. The law says that that’s exactly what should happen. He continues here: “Just because I’m wearing the flag doesn’t mean I represent everything going on.” Doesn’t mean I represent everything going on in the U.S. I don’t know what that really means, but anyway. His teammate, Chris Lillis, added this: “I’m heartbroken about what’s happening in the United States.” Moment of silence here. We should take a moment to just, you know, acknowledge that Chris Lillis is heartbroken.
Todd Huff: My friends, we’ll do that here. A moment of silence for him. But he continues: “I think as a country, we need to focus on respecting everybody’s rights.” Well, no kidding. Oh my gosh. The people who say things that have no idea—no idea—what’s going on just makes my mind want to explode sometimes. “We need to focus on respecting everybody’s rights and making sure that we are treating our citizens”—you’ve got to be kidding me—“our citizens.” Does he not know? Does he not understand? Chris Lillis, listen, maybe you’ve tuned into MSNBC one too many times. I don’t know. Maybe you went—I don’t know if he went to college. I don’t know anything about it, but it makes me think he’s been reading the wrong books, listening to the wrong information.
Todd Huff: Been taught by some lunatics along the way. Something’s going on here. This is not about citizens, Chris. We’ve got to—he wants to make sure we’re treating our citizens as well as anybody. Okay, that would pertain to the people who aren’t supposed to be here. That’s the illegal aliens—with love and respect. Are they treating ICE officers with love and respect? Does that apply both ways, Chris? “I hope that when people look at athletes competing in the Olympics, they realize that that’s the America we’re trying to represent.” I think you’re overthinking this, Chris. I think you’ve overshot the target as to how people care about what you’re representing. People love their country, you know. And as one who has always loved my country—and let me tell you this—this may be a news flash to somebody out there.
Todd Huff: I actually loved my country even when Biden was president. I didn’t like it when Biden was president. I didn’t like a lot of what was going on when Biden was president. I disliked a lot of things about U.S. policy, about elections under multiple administrations. I didn’t like that we were killing millions of babies under—we had nine white old men in black robes in 1973 make up a law that didn’t exist. Predicated based upon a constitutional concept that was fabricated out of pure air and applied in some crazy way to say that there’s a constitutional right to kill an unborn child. This was Roe v. Wade, 1973. To kill an unborn child. And that you can do that up to whatever period of time—end of the first trimester or whatever they came up with—right? Based on what? There was nothing. They just made it up.
Todd Huff: They made it up. So that should have never happened, number one. And also the ruling, whether it should have happened or not, was reprehensible and disgusting and wicked and evil and illegal and unconstitutional. But I’ll tell you this. If I was an Olympic athlete—never was good enough to be an Olympic athlete—but even if I was, I would not be embarrassed to be an American. I would never think to publicly shame my country for something like this. I suppose there could be something that I would have spoken out against, but I never would have—like the virtue signaling and just the condescension they have toward the rest of America is wild to me.
Todd Huff: You know, if you think about this country, I think about these things a lot. The historical perspective of having the nation of America on this planet—the average person has no clue. No clue. You know, during the—after World War II and then building up to the end of the 1980s, we had this thing called the Cold War between the United States of America and the USSR, right, Russia, and its Soviet satellite states. And it was a battle between two global superpowers. And it was largely a cold war. There might have been some proxy wars that were fought in places like Afghanistan, and they got messy. Listen, they got messy. We got Osama bin Laden and all this stuff. We got the Mujahideen and just a lot of stuff. I’m not here to rehash that. We had Star Wars programs. We had these summits between Reagan and Gorbachev.
Todd Huff: I was a kid during this time, but I remember these things. I studied these things—not as a kid, as I got older—but I remember those things. And Reagan referred to the Soviet Union as the evil empire, and that upset people at the time. I also remember Ronald Reagan when he gave the speech outside in front of the Berlin Wall and he said, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” And all of Reagan’s advisers said, “Don’t do it. You shouldn’t say it.” He said it anyway. It’s one of the most memorable lines, the most iconic lines of Reagan’s administration. And by the way, he had many. Reagan said the seven most terrifying words in the English language are, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”
Todd Huff: Reagan had a lot of wit and wisdom and sarcasm and humor and brilliance when he was president of the United States that we could choose from. But I would have to say at the top of that list was “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” And all the people in the political class told him, “Oh, you can’t do it.” But it turned out to be something that is iconic, that we’re still talking about all of these years later. My friends, I think what would have happened—what would have happened to this world if the winner of the Cold War was the USSR? People think that it’s bad today. But the United States—listen—is not perfect. I get it. The United States has done some bad things. I get it. But this country, my friends, is a shining city on a hill.
Todd Huff: I don’t think the average person knows what to compare the United States against. They’re comparing the United States against some fantasy utopia that exists only in their minds. They are not dealing in reality. They are not dealing in a situation where the abstract idea has to work in the real world, where the proverbial rubber meets the road. They don’t have any idea what they’re talking about. That’s why so many of these people go to positions of professorship. And again, I’m not here to attack—there are some wonderful professors out there. Please don’t think I’m throwing everybody together. But I’m telling you this: it’s attractive for some of these people to go to be a professor because their ideas don’t have to work in the real world.
Todd Huff: And they can tell the class sitting in that little bubble of a classroom how the world should work outside the walls. And if you disagree with the professor inside those walls, you’re going to get a bad grade. So kids participate. They play the game. Whatever. Yet what the professor is telling them is utter garbage and nonsense. I had some of these classes. I’ve shared some of those stories. My last class at Butler was a class called Is Capitalism Really Better? I just talked about that a week or two ago here on this program. America is a shining city on a hill. I’ve got more to say about this, my friends—more than I even prepared to say. As I’m getting into it, it’s lighting a flame of fury, a flame of gratitude really, inside my soul.
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Todd Huff: The time does as well. I’ve got to take a break, my friends. Tight. Back in just a minute. Welcome back. I’m going to do my best to get to Andy Beshear. I may not. I realize in what I said last segment, this has lit a fire within me talking about my gratitude for this country. And listen, these Olympians can say whatever they want to say. You know, the media—even as I was preparing for this, I use ChatGPT to kind of help me put together my notes, and I share my thoughts and I ask for research on things, additional sources and all that kind of stuff. And occasionally—well, regularly—ChatGPT will want to change what I talk about, and I have to routinely tell ChatGPT, listen, dude, you make a wonderful servant but a terrible master. I don’t care what you think. You’re supposed to do what I tell you. You’re not here to formulate my thoughts. You’re here to give me information that supplements what I’m trying to communicate today.
Todd Huff: And ChatGPT wanted to talk about how this is an issue of free speech. Pause everything. Have I been talking about this now the entire first segment? Have you heard me once say that this Olympic athlete should not have been allowed to say it? Did you hear me say that the government should go over to Milan and put this guy in cuffs and bring him back here to put him into the clink? I didn’t say that, because I don’t believe that. That’s ridiculous. But this is the tactic that’s used by the left. If there’s speech out there that I disagree with or that someone on the conservative side of the aisle disagrees with, they immediately say, well, you can’t silence a person. Well, no kidding, Sherlock. I didn’t say the person couldn’t say it. I said it’s not speech that I agree with.
Todd Huff: And I’ve got the right to say what I don’t like about it. I’ve got the right to say what I think is a problem with it. I’ve got the right to try to persuade people who are listening to me to see the damage, the danger, the risk, the lies that are included in that speech. And they understand this. It’s just a tactic to keep from having the real discussion. And I have been bothered by lots of policies. I see gun laws come out in the United States that I don’t agree with. I see programs that exist in cities that allow the government to be manipulated and people to take advantage of allegedly these programs and get federal dollars to do things—well, that’s just basically fake businesses in some situations, maybe in many situations around the country.
Todd Huff: I don’t like that. I don’t like some of the cultural stuff that happens in this country today. I don’t like that. By the way, I saw TMZ did an online poll asking people to vote which halftime show they liked better—from the Super Bowl Sunday—the clown that performed at the Super Bowl and then the Turning Point USA event, which we talked about yesterday. Their poll—the poll that they conducted—basically showed a three-to-one, I don’t remember the exact results, but it was basically 75 percent, give or take, that preferred the Turning Point USA halftime show over the garbage that was playing at the Super Bowl, which is fantastic, by the way. But regardless, there’s a lot of things that I don’t agree with in America. But America at its core is a good thing. And as I was talking about last segment, the average person has no idea—no idea—how much darker a place the world would be without the United States of America in it.
Todd Huff: As a superpower, dare I say this country has done remarkable—remarkable—amounts of good. It’s not perfect. It’s not the total solution. Friends, listen. I want you to love this country. I want you to see the benefits of this country that will benefit all of us immensely. This is a great place. We have opportunities. We have freedom. We have free markets. We have the Bill of Rights. We have founding documents that reference our divine Creator and how those rights are given to us by Him and not by our government. These are beautiful things—wonderful, wonderful things. And I hope that we can all come to love and appreciate this place even more than we do today, while fully recognizing her faults and failures and the mistakes that some politicians and so forth have made. Of course those things exist. That is to be human. But the system—the system that we operate within—the foundations that this culture, society, and government are built upon are a good thing.
Todd Huff: In fact—and before—listen, I know every time I say this, I have to put the disclaimer. Of course I’m not talking about slavery in that group of things. That has to be said. It’s crazy that it still has to be said, but keep in mind that while this nation—the principles that it outlined in the Declaration of Independence—were wonderful ideals, we didn’t live up to them in many ways, and in other ways we still aren’t today. But that doesn’t take away—doesn’t take away—the things that are obviously good about this country. In fact, the founders put in place mechanisms by which we ultimately used to fix and to make right the issue of slavery over the course of time, including even a civil war. But I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about these principles.
Todd Huff: The principle that we’re created in the image of God, that He gives us our rights, the government doesn’t, that we are citizens and not subjects. When the founders won the revolution—when they oversaw a nation that fought for its independence from, at the time, the most powerful country on the face of the planet—the sun never set on the British, my friends, in those days. The sun was always up on some piece of land that they occupied or owned or whatever. But when we won that victory, the founders could have said, we’re now going to be your new government of tyrants here. But they didn’t. They said, “We the people.” They said we’re going to tell our government what it’s going to be.
Todd Huff: We’re not going to then have a group of us come together and tell you what the new rules are now that we’re in charge. This is just the beauty of all these things. Recognition of religious liberty, of free speech, of the right to protect ourselves by keeping and bearing arms—these things are good, my friends. The right to be secure in your property, in your person, from unreasonable searches from the government. They just can’t come and turn your world upside down without probable cause, without a good reason to do so, which would include you doing something potentially illegal that they have evidence of, or at least good reason to think may be happening.
Todd Huff: All these things are built into our system. And you look at the prosperity that followed—my goodness—look at the good things that have come from this country, from innovation to advances in medicine and health care. Now, listen, I know—we’ve been lied to about our food, and modern medicine is just—there are problems in all these things. There are people, individual capitalists, who are trying to game the system and create their own little monopolies or get rid of competition to protect their nest egg and all that stuff and get us addicted to this product. I understand all that stuff’s happening, and that stuff needs to be policed better and all that sort of stuff.
Todd Huff: I think we’re making steps toward those things. But if you look at the overall advancements and how the United States has played a role in lifting much of the remaining parts of the world out of poverty or improving their day-to-day circumstances, their standard of living—think of the number of missionaries and people who share the gospel of Jesus Christ that have historically left the shores of this nation to proclaim the gospel on other shores. It’s a remarkable thing, my friends. Unfortunately now, the United States is receiving—I mean, I don’t have any problem, by the way, with people coming here to share the gospel from other countries. But we used to be the place that told others about Jesus. Now we need to hear about Jesus from others because we’ve forgotten.
Todd Huff: And we’ve got problems, and I acknowledge that. But for an Olympic athlete to think that he is representing a country that is somehow to be embarrassed of—it doesn’t compute in my way of thinking at all. Shame here is treated as virtue. Confidence and identity—being proud of being American—that’s eroded over time. Contempt for the president, contempt for this country is elevated over gratitude for this country. I think that’s crazy. The world stage is used for basically self-loathing and disapproval, and I think that’s wild, and I’ve got more to say about it. And I’m not going to get to Andy Beshear on today’s program. Maybe in the newsletter we’ll write a little bit about that.
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Todd Huff: Welcome back, my friends. Third and final segment. And yes, I didn’t get—I didn’t get to it. I told you off the top I was going to get to two things. I’m not going to get to the second one because the more I’ve thought and talked about this situation where these American Olympic athletes are loathing, in some cases, America—or their virtue signaling—whatever’s going on there, it’s just foreign to me. And yes, they can say it. But I can say what I’m going to say too. It’s embarrassing. It should be embarrassing to them. But because of the media that we have and the anti-American sentiment that exists in media—not just here, but around the world—these folks feel comfortable saying these things. In fact, I would say they feel encouraged to say stuff like this. If you want to have—if you want to get a bonus point, well, lots of bonus points with the media—say something like this and you’ll be their darling for sure. My friends, let’s be honest. When your financial world starts getting a little more complicated, you need more than one-size-fits-all advice.
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Todd Huff: Okay. Again, Andy Beshear—I will address that in today’s Inner Circle, which again, the Inner Circle is a newsletter. It’s not even a newsletter—it’s basically a show summary. You’ll have links to the show. It talks about what we talked about in the show. I can go into it a little bit deeper, the topics, give you the sources, give you the things that we’ve talked about. and then there are often things that we don’t have time to get into. So this is a shareable version. This is a more—this is a version that you can dig deeper and see some of the other information that I can’t get to or the sources, additional thoughts that I have, and then the Todd Talks in there as well, other content on top of that. So toddhuffshow.com if you want to sign up for that. It’s free. It’s called the Inner Circle. But as I said, there are things that have happened throughout history that America has done that I’ve not been happy with. The idea that the only people that are ever unhappy with politics are people who are anti-Trumpers or who hate Trump is a wild thing to suggest.
Todd Huff: I mean, you endured— I endured—nearly 10 percent inflation under Biden. You endured open borders. You endured quite possibly a pay-to-play scandal that dates back allegedly to his time as vice president of the United States. Hunter Biden, all this stuff that’s been happening that could have jeopardized American safety, America’s standing in the world. All those sorts of things. We endured a lot. And to act like the only problem is Trump is crazy. This reminds me of a story. I’m not embarrassed. I wouldn’t be embarrassed of this country even if we had a bad president. I don’t even think like that.
Todd Huff: I think, why are knuckleheads electing these people? That’s what I think. It doesn’t embarrass me. And where do we get off? The behavior is so self-aggrandizing here, where they just think, you know, “I am—my spirit is just embarrassed of my fellow Americans.” Get a life, dude. You’re a skier. That’s great. I’m glad you can do it. I don’t care if you’re embarrassed of how I voted or not. I’m perplexed that people defend lawlessness. I’m perplexed that people defend a morally bankrupt ideology that’s being perpetrated on the American people by the godless radical left. That’s what I’m— I’m not embarrassed by it. I’m flat-out confused by it.
Todd Huff: I understand the allure. I just don’t understand why people take the bait. But I would never say I’m embarrassed to be an American. What does that even mean? This country is a wonderful place. The greatest place on Earth. It reminds me—when I was a senior in high school, we were getting trounced by Tri-West, my football team, and at halftime our coach laid into us. And he asked one of the players—this player was not me—he said, “Are you embarrassed to be a Monrovia Bulldog?” And my teammate said, “Yeah, I am a little bit right now.” And the coach—our coach, Scott West—lost his mind. “You shouldn’t be embarrassed. This is who you are. This is part of your identity. What are you talking about, you’re embarrassed?” And he was addressing, in a way, some of the bigger problems we had at the time.
Todd Huff: We had been struggling with losing seasons. And part of it was because some of those players, I think, felt like they maybe didn’t belong out there or they were second-tier or third-tier. And he was trying to make that point. And he lost his mind on my friend. But he was right. And I feel the same way about this. What do you mean you’re embarrassed to be an American? You live in the greatest nation on the face of the planet that has done more good around the world than you could possibly imagine. If there wasn’t a United States of America, this world would be a darker, darker place. What are you talking about, Olympic athletes? Yes, you have the right to say it. It’s just crazy that you would. I’ve got to go. Have a great day. I’m proud to be American. I hope you are too. SDG.
