Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce have welcomed the prospect to play in entrance of Donald Trump when the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs face the Philadelphia Eagles in Sunday’s Tremendous Bowl.
A White Home spokesperson stated on Tuesday that Trump intends to look at Sunday’s recreation in New Orleans, which might make him the primary sitting president to attend a Tremendous Bowl. He additionally praised Mahomes final week when requested to choose a winner for the sport, saying “there’s a sure quarterback that appears to be a fairly good winner.”
Mahomes, who’s aiming to win his fourth Tremendous Bowl with the Chiefs, was requested about Trump’s feedback on Wednesday.
“It’s at all times cool to have the ability to play in entrance of a sitting president, somebody that’s within the high place in our nation,” he stated. “I didn’t see that clip however it’s cool to listen to that he’s seen me play soccer and respects the sport that I play.”
Whereas Mahomes declined to again a candidate in final 12 months’s election, his mom and spouse, Brittany, have each expressed help for Trump.
Kelce additionally stated he was trying ahead to Trump’s presence in New Orleans.
“That’s superior. It’s an awesome honor,” he advised reporters on Wednesday when requested about taking part in in entrance of Trump. “I believe, you recognize, irrespective of who the president is, I do know I’m excited as a result of it’s the largest recreation of my life, you recognize, and having the president there, you recognize, it’s the very best nation on the planet. So, that’d be fairly cool.”
Kelce’s feedback are maybe extra shocking than these of Mahomes, on condition that Trump has publicly attacked the participant’s girlfriend, Taylor Swift. In September, Trump wrote “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT,” on social media after she backed Kamala Harris within the presidential election. She additionally backed Joe Biden over Trump in 2020.
Like Mahomes, Kelce didn’t publicly endorse a candidate within the 2024 presidential election, though he stated it had been an honor to fulfill Joe Biden on the White Home after the Chiefs gained final 12 months’s Tremendous Bowl.
“Anytime I get an opportunity to be acknowledged by the president of the USA and get to go together with my teammates and a gaggle of women and men that I had success with to the purpose we get acknowledged … I’m doing it each time irrespective of who’s up there on the helm,” he stated on his New Heights podcast of his go to to the White Home, which Mahomes additionally attended. “It doesn’t matter what’s happening on this world, it’s simply such a cool alternative.”
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