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Donald Trump is expected to go the archetypal sitting president to attend a Super Bowl Sunday to ticker Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs effort to go the archetypal squad successful NFL past to triumph a 3rd consecutive Super Bowl.
Mahomes gave his thoughts connected Trump attending the crippled to reporters Wednesday.
"It's ever chill to beryllium capable to play successful beforehand of a sitting president," Mahomes said. "Someone that is astatine the apical presumption successful our country."
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Earlier Wednesday, erstwhile Trump was asked who helium expected to triumph the Super Bowl, the president didn't springiness a definitive reply but alluded to Mahomes' success.
"I don’t privation to say, but there’s a definite backmost that seems to beryllium a beauteous bully winner," Trump said erstwhile asked which squad he's rooting for.
While Trump didn't place Mahomes by name, helium has expressed fondness and respect for the backmost and his woman Brittany successful caller months. The different backmost playing successful the game, Eagles prima Jalen Hurts, has yet to triumph a Super Bowl.
Mahomes recognized Trump was astir apt talking astir him and gave his thoughts astir the cryptic praise from the president.
"It's chill to perceive that he's seen maine play shot and respects the crippled that I play," Mahomes told reporters Wednesday.
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Mahomes' mother, Randi Mahomes, endorsed Trump conscionable days earlier the Nov. 5 predetermination successful a video to OutKick.
Other Chiefs figures person besides acknowledged the humanities interaction Trump's beingness volition bring to the game.
Gracie Hunt, the girl of Chiefs squad proprietor Clark Hunt, spoke to Riley Gaines connected OutKick’s "Gaines for Girls" podcast and reacted to Trump’s remarks.
"It’s beauteous cool. It’s beauteous awesome," she told Gaines. "Sometimes, I conscionable look astatine whoever I’m talking to, and I’m like, ‘Yeah, that conscionable wasn’t connected my 2025 bingo card.’ But, wow, that’s conscionable perfectly incredible."
Chiefs choky extremity Travis Kelce called it an "honor."
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"I think, you know, nary substance who the president is, I cognize I’m excited due to the fact that it’s the biggest crippled of my life, you know. And having the president there, you know, it’s the champion state successful the world. So, that’d beryllium beauteous cool," Kelce said.
The choky extremity said this contempt dating Taylor Swift, a longtime Democrat who supported Kamala Harris successful the 2024 election.
Mahomes declined to endorse a campaigner successful the caller predetermination erstwhile reporters pressed him astir it Sept. 11, but helium did promote radical to ballot successful the champion involvement of their families.
"I don’t privation my spot and my level to beryllium utilized to endorse a campaigner oregon bash whatever, either way," Patrick said astatine the time. "I deliberation my spot is to pass radical to get registered to vote. It’s to pass radical to bash their ain probe and past marque the champion determination for them and their family."
Brittany incited contention and enactment successful August erstwhile it was revealed she liked an Instagram station by Trump that laid retired his 2024 argumentation agenda. She addressed the backlash aggregate times and appeared to treble down connected her enactment for Trump with further societal media likes. Trump adjacent thanked her for the enactment successful a station connected Truth Social.
After Swift endorsed Harris Sept. 10, Trump said successful an interrogation connected "Fox & Friends" the adjacent greeting helium liked Brittany "much better" than Swift.
Patrick Mahomes commended his wife's power Sept. 11 erstwhile asked astir Trump's comments astir her.
"I deliberation you spot Brittany does a batch successful the community," Mahomes told reporters. "At the extremity of the day, it’s astir maine and my household and however we dainty different people."
After the Chiefs defeated the Buffalo Bills successful the AFC title crippled Jan. 26, Trump sent a congratulatory station to the squad connected Truth Social.
After the Eagles won their lone Super Bowl successful February 2018, they skipped retired connected visiting Trump astatine the White House.
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