Ottawa Senators’ Brady Tkachuk Responds To White House AI Video Of Him Making ‘Distasteful’ Comments

In the wake of Team USA winning the gold medal at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics and then visiting the White House, the White House account posted an AI video of winger Brady Tkachuk in which he made disparaging remarks about Canada.

Tkachuk did not approve of the post. The Ottawa Senators left winger said those words “never came out of my mouth.”

The video shows Tkachuk at a press conference during the 4-Nations tournament last year, and he mentions the Canadian fans booing the United States national anthem. This was when tensions were high between the two countries after President Donald Trump announced that he would impose tariffs against Canada.

“They booed our national anthem, so I had to come out and teach those maple syrup-eating f—s a lesson,” is what Tkachuk was made to say in the AI doctored video, adding, “Canada, we own you, little bro.”

Tkachuk was quick to shut down the reports, saying, “It’s clearly fake, because it’s not my voice and not my lips moving,” he said during Thursday’s media availability. “I’m not in control of any of those accounts. I know that those words would never come out of my mouth. Can’t do anything about it.”

“I would never say that. That’s not who I am. So I guess I don’t like that video because that just would never come out of my mouth. Never thought. I’ll leave it at that,” the gold medalist said when asked if he liked the video.

Tkachuk also denied the rumor that he was the one who told Trump to “close the northern border” after the president called the team following their win over Canada.

Tkachuk plays in Canada and was drafted by the Senators in 2018, taken with the fourth overall pick. He has spent the last seven years in Canada.

The Senators and Tkachuk will now focus on making a late playoff push as they sit in sixth place in the Atlantic Division.