Sigh.

A “distasteful joke” by US President Donald Trump has overshadowed the achievement of female athletes at the Winter Olympics, says USA women’s ice hockey captain Hilary Knight.

USA won both men’s and women’s ice hockey gold for the first time at the Milan-Cortina Games this month.

The men’s team received a congratulatory call from Trump, who invited them to his State of the Union address and said he would have to ask their female counterparts as well or he “probably would be impeached”.

Sigh.

That’s not really a “joke” – not as normal people normally understand a joke. It might pass as a “quip” for people who like that sort of thing. A stupid gratuitous insulting “quip”.

It’s so Trump that he simply assumes inviting the women would be a drag, and that he says so out loud. Women are things for sticking your penis into, and other than that they should just let the real people, men, have fun together.

He didn’t have to say that. He didn’t have to let the men know, wink wink nudge nudge, that he too hates women and doesn’t want them around except at fucking-time. We all know that already.