Donald Trump will be the first sitting U.S. president to attend the Super Bowl. The game that will see this unprecedented event will be played on Sunday between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles in New Orleans. Trump is a sports fan, particularly golf and football, but at this point we still don’t know which team he will be rooting for. However, as the Guardian reports, it seems that some of his ardent MAGA supporters root for the Chiefs, including kicker Harrison Butker and Brittany Mahomes, the wife of Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes. Trump also congratulated the Chiefs when they won the Super Bowl last 2024, yet he never congratulated the Eagles when they won the Super Bowl in 2018.
“Congratulations to the Kansas City Chiefs,” Trump said on social media. “What a great team, coach, quarterback and pretty much everything else, including those amazing fans, who voted for me (MAGA!) in record numbers. Likewise, congratulations to the Buffalo Bills for an amazing season. They will win a lot in the future!!!”
But not everyone in the football world is in synch with the president’s policies. Last weekend, Canadian NBA and NHL fans booed the U.S. national anthem as Trump spoke on the issue of tariffs.
Next Sunday, Trump will give a pre-recorded interview that will be aired during the pre-game show for Fox, the network that will be showing the Super Bowl this year. This will also be a first in the sporting event as former President Joe Biden refused to sit for a Super Bowl interview in 2023 and 2024, as did Trump himself in 2018, during his first term.
