Rusty Weiss
‘Y’all Would Have Told Her to Go Back’: US Olympian Alysa Liu’s Bizarre Defense of Eileen Gu’s CCP Loyalty
Two-time U.S. Olympic gold medalist Alysa Liu has rushed to a head-scratching defense of Eileen Gu, the American-born freestyle skier who chose to compete for the Chinese Communist Party instead of the country that raised her.
Liu, fresh off winning gold in women’s singles (the first American woman to do so in 24 years) and the team event for Team USA at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, told The New York Times that critics of Gu are the real “hypocrites.”
But, she did so by making a statement that reveals her ignorance of a fundamental difference between legal and illegal immigration.
“I’ve known Eileen since I was 13 or something,” she told the Times. “We’re from the Bay Area. She’s super nice, and her mom is from China.”
That’s fine. But that’s when the stupid kicked in.
“I think people are hypocritical for shaming her for representing China. So in my head, it’s a bit hypocritical, because her mom is an immigrant,” she said. “Y’all would have told her to go back to China. Now that they’re back in China, you’re mad.”
Well, Alysa, one—neither of them moved back to China, and two—the only people Americans want to see “go back” to their home countries are the criminal illegal aliens. Surely they teach you basics like this at UCLA.
Alysa Liu on Dancing Her Way to Gold: ‘The Music Carries My Body’ https://t.co/Xh4Gq0nyGX via @NYTimes
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Taking the weapons-grade stupidity to the next level, Liu went on to say that choosing which country you represent—the ENTIRE premise of the Olympic Games—is irrelevant.
“And it’s sport, it doesn’t matter what country we represent. Sport is sport, and she has a love for competition, she has love for the game. I think that’s all that matters,” said Liu. “There’s no shame in going to where opportunity is.”
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That last part might have been the only thing Liu said that has some basis in reality and actually makes sense. Granted, Liu saying Gu ‘went to where the opportunity is’ is a polite way of saying she prostituted herself to the CCP.
Gu has been inspired by money and little else. Reports indicate that China has compensated the skier substantially for her allegiance, with the Beijing Municipal Sports Bureau paying her and fellow U.S.-born athlete Zhu Yi a combined $6.6 million in 2025 alone, and nearly $14 million over the past three years to support their Olympic qualifications.
Honestly, Liu doesn’t even seem to understand her own family history. Her own father is a Tiananmen Square dissident who fled the regime that Gu is celebrating.
Neither of these athletes cares about loyalty to the country that helped make them great, which provides state-of-the-art training facilities found nowhere else in the world and gives them the ability to promote themselves in ways unmatched in other countries.
Liu simply seems to be ignorant, while Gu is controlled by the almighty dollar. They’re both embarrassments to the United States.