This Sunday’s Super Bowl LIX, which will be held Sunday in New Orleans between the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs, has quite a few political angles to it.
Donald Trump will attend, becoming the first-ever sitting president to appear at a Super Bowl; earlier in the day, Fox will broadcast an interview with the president, likely to be taped earlier.
After the Chiefs and Eagles won their conference championship games, Trump congratulated the Chiefs and not the Eagles; it may be because while Chiefs owner Clark Hunt has mostly donated to Republicans, Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie is a rare Democrat in the NFL owner fraternity, having executive-produced an anti-Trump documentary called Totally Under Control in 2020. The Eagles’ planned visit to the White House in 2018, after they won the Super Bowl, was canceled after several players opted out.
There’s also the Kelce/Swift factor, as the Chiefs’ Travis Kelce is playing in the game, and his girlfriend Taylor Swift — a Kamala Harris backer in 2024 — is expected to attend. Kelce commented on Trump’s attendance on Wednesday.
Travis Kelce was asked about Donald Trump attending the #SuperBowl. pic.twitter.com/azK35ylOI5
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) February 5, 2025
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According to The Daily Mail, Kelce expressed happiness that the president will be attending the game.
“It’s awesome. It’s a great honor, I think no matter who the President is,” the Chiefs’ tight end told reporters. “I’m excited because it’s the biggest game of my life and having the President there, it’s the best country in the world so it’s pretty cool.”
Kelce said this despite Trump once declaring “I hate Taylor Swift,” in a social media post after Swift’s Harris endorsement.
Kelce and his brother, the retired Eagles player Jason Kelce, who host the popular New Heights podcast, have not talked about how they vote, although Travis has frequently become a culture war figure. Last year, there were absurd conspiracy theories that the Super Bowl would be rigged, and/or that Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift would publicly endorse Joe Biden during or after the game.
I wonder who’s going to win the Super Bowl next month. And I wonder if there’s a major presidential endorsement coming from an artificially culturally propped-up couple this fall. Just some wild speculation over here; let’s see how it ages over the next 8 months.
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) January 29, 2024
During the pandemic, Travis Kelce appeared in commercials for Pfizer, leading NFL quarterback and conspiracy theorist Aaron Rodgers to dub him “Mr. Pfizer.”
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