Logan Couture is at the center of a social media storm.
It all started when the Sharks captain claimed on Twitter that someone “sucker punched” him for talking about Donald Trump and saying he’d vote Republican if he could.
“I spent last night in Toronto Ontario,” 31-year-old Couture, who is Canadian, wrote in a since-deleted tweet. “I talked about voting for the Republican Party, and I mentioned Donald Trump by name. I was sucker punched. Is this really what we are coming to? If you vote you are a villain? Man this world is so wrong.”
The tweet that started it all.
Then, confusingly, he said in another tweet that he was punched for “saying my dad was a police officer and I ‘would’ if I could vote Republican.”
Saying my dad was a police officer and I “would” if I could vote republican.
— Logan Couture (@Logancouture) August 26, 2020
Evidently dismayed by his words being picked apart, he posted a lengthier message about how he should never have delved into politics on the social media platform and how he “did not believe in supporting Donald Trump.”
— Logan Couture (@Logancouture) August 26, 2020
“I regret the decision to make this incident public,” Couture wrote.
The star athlete then apologized to his team and his family for stressing them out.
“I hold myself to a high standard and I apologize for any of my comments that were poorly worded and do not reflect my true feelings or beliefs,” he added.
I reached out to Logan Couture to see if he wanted to comment further on his tweets this morning, and he politely declined.
— Kevin Kurz (@KKurzNHL) August 26, 2020
By late afternoon Wednesday, the apologetic Twitter post had elicited 730 comments, been retweeted 534 times and received 1.3-plus million likes. Couture’s initial Tweet racked up a whopping 11,500 retweets and 32.9 million likes before he deleted it.
Thank you for this. I am completely wrong for going public with my political views. I understand now. This world is at its tipping point. A wise man once said nothing at all, that’s how we should all go about our business. I love my fans, haters as well!
— Logan Couture (@Logancouture) August 26, 2020
With Couture’s comments sending the Twitterverse into a frenzy, the Sharks organization seemingly had no choice but to say something on the matter.
“The San Jose Sharks organization is aware of the incident that occurred on the evening of Aug. 25 in which Logan Couture was assaulted in Toronto,” the organization said today in a press release. “We are thankful that he was not seriously hurt and unequivocally denounce physical attacks or abuse on anyone under any circumstances.”
Couture, for his part, said he’ll keep his politics to himself from now on.
And I’ve learned that. I’ll never talk politics in public again. Just crazy to me, if you speak your own opinion violence happens. Even crazier, people are okay with it.
— Logan Couture (@Logancouture) August 26, 2020
Couture, the ninth overall selection in the 2007 Draft, is one of the franchise’s all-time great players, having spent his entire career in a Sharks uniform.
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