Aaron Rodgers put FBI director Kash Patel on blast after he was seen partying with Team USA’s hockey team at the 2026 Winter Olympics.
Speaking about the controversial moment during a Wednesday, March 4, appearance on ESPN’s The Pat McAfee Show, Rodgers, 42, slammed Patel, 46.
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“Can we get that one guy out of the locker room and get him working on something else?” Rodgers said, adding, “That’s a bad look. Come on, have some awareness.”
Last month, Patel raised eyebrows during the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics when he chose to celebrate with the men’s team after their win over Canada.
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In footage that circulated via social media, the FBI director could be seen drinking beer and cheering with the athletes inside a locker room as part of the team’s lively post-victory celebrations.
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Patel, a longtime hockey fan, also joined the athletes in singing a rendition of Toby Keith’s “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue.”
In response to the backlash, Patel defended his actions via a social media post shared on February 22.
“Yes, I love America and was extremely humbled when my friends, the newly minted Gold Medal winners on Team USA, invited me into the locker room to celebrate this historic moment with the boys,” he wrote via X. “Greatest country on earth and greatest sport on earth.”
Kash Patel. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
NHL star Jack Hughes scored the winning goal in Team USA’s hockey game against Canada, which went into overtime on February 22. The United States won against their rivals with a final score of 2-1. The victory was the first time in 46 years that Team USA has won gold in men’s hockey since the famous “Miracle on Ice” win in 1980.
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Rodgers is not the only person to publicly criticize Patel’s decision to party with the hockey team following the gold medal win.
Dani Bensky, who said she suffered abuse from Jeffrey Epstein between 2004 and 2005, also slammed Patel for celebrating when he could have been doing his job.
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“Why is the FBI director out there partying like a college kid when he should be investigating the vast criminal enterprise?” she asked in a news conference hosted by the Democratic Women’s Caucus on February 24. “This administration needs to do better. How can anybody feel safe in this country when our president’s sympathies are going to the former Prince Andrew and not to survivors?”
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She continued, “There are a few things that really need to be done immediately versus the release of all of the files, which we know. Next is to hold accountable those who continuously exploit. And the third is to pass Virginia’s bill. We need to pass Virginia’s bill because justice should never ever expire. Release the damn files.”
Virginia’s Law is named after Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre, who died by suicide in 2025. It was introduced by senate Democrats last month and aims to end the statute of limitations for civil sexual abuse cases.
