Adam Rippon may be headed to the Olympics, but there’s one aspect of the gig he won’t be participating in. Accepting an invitation from President Donald Trump, who ran on an anti-LGBTQ platform, would be disingenuous, he said. He added, “If I talked to people the way that President Trump talks to people, my mom would kick my ass.”Rippon isn’t the only U.S. athlete who has vowed to decline a post-Olympics invitation to the White House. Lindsey Vonn, who is also hoping to qualify for the U.S. ski team, similarly said she would not go if invited to the White House. “I hope to represent the people of the United States, not the president,” she told CNN last month.

Source: Huffington Post January 12, 2018 15:38 UTC