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Aaron Rodgers appeared to criticize FBI Director Kash Patel for partying with the USA men’s hockey team in their locker room at the Cortina Winter Olympics in Milan. Rodgers did not directly refer to Patel by name or title.
Rodgers apparently referred to Patel during Wednesday’s episode of “The Pat McAfee Show” on ESPN while discussing the team and their celebration after beating Team Canada in the gold medal game.
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FBI Director Kash Patel looks on as President Donald Trump speaks to the press following US military actions in Venezuela at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida on January 3, 2026. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)
“Can we get that one guy out of the locker room though and get him working on something else? It’s a bad look. Come on, be a little bit more conscious,” Rodgers said.
Pakinomist Digital has reached out to the FBI’s national press office for comment.
Patel has addressed criticism of his visit to the Olympics after Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., argued that Patel doesn’t “love his country” in the wake of the trip and viral footage of Patel partying with the hockey team.
“To the very concerned media – yes, I love America and was extremely humbled when my friends, the newly minted gold medalists on Team USA, invited me into the locker room to celebrate this historic moment with the boys – the greatest country on earth and the greatest sport on earth,” Patel wrote on X on February 22.
Patel’s spokesman, Ben Williamson, responded to a CBS News report that Patel used an FBI jet to go to the Olympics.
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FBI Director Kash Patel speaks during a press conference at the Department of Justice in Washington, DC, on December 4, 2025. (Daniel Heuer/AFP via Getty Images)
“No, this is not a personal trip. Director Patel is on a trip that was planned months ago. It includes: partner meetings with Italian law enforcement and security officials (they invited the director last July), meeting with Ambassador Fertitta (as a follow-up to our law enforcement roundtable he hosted in January), meetings with Legat staff, and more,” Williamson wrote on Feb. 19.
“The FBI also has a big role in Olympic security – just like we do with the World Cup, F1 and more – so we have a US Consulate briefing on Olympic security and current FBI status, as well as thanking FBI personnel on the ground.”
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