Donald Trump will watch the Eagles and Chiefs face off in the Super Bowl
A little over a week ago, Donald Trump ignored the Philadelphia Eagles' NFC Championship, congratulating the Kansas City Chiefs for their AFC win instead.

President Donald Trump will be making his way to the Superdome in New Orleans Sunday for Super Bowl LIX.
The game, where the Eagles will face the Kansas City Chiefs, will mark Trump’s first time attending the game as president, the Associated Press reported. The confirmation of his visit also comes a little more than a week after Trump ignored the Eagles’ NFC championship win, praising the Chiefs, their “fantastic FANS,” and the Buffalo Bills instead on a Jan. 26 Truth Social post.
A born-and-raised New Yorker and now a Florida resident, Trump doesn’t have an inherent allegiance to the Eagles or the Chiefs but when asked Tuesday in the Oval Office who he thinks will win the Vince Lombardi trophy, Trump didn’t respond like a Birds fan.
“I don’t want to say but there’s a certain quarterback that seems to be a pretty good winner,” he said, likely referring to Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, who could win a third consecutive Super Bowl ring on Sunday.
When asked during a media availability Tuesday how he feels about Trump’s attendance, Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts — who once called former President Barack Obama an “all-time leader” — said: “He’s welcome to do what he wants.”
Trump has never quite appeared to be an Eagles fan. When the Birds won the Super Bowl, beating the New England Patriots 41-33 in 2018, a first-term Trump canceled the winning team’s traditional visit to the White House.
The president rescinded the invitation after some players indicated they would boycott the trip and as debates over standing for the national anthem remained a hot topic in sports.
”Unfortunately, only a small number of players decided to come, and we canceled the event,” Trump tweeted in June 2018. “Staying in the Locker Room for the playing of our national anthem is as disrespectful to our country as kneeling. Sorry!”
The Eagles were outspoken advocates for social justice, but did not kneel or go to the locker room during the 2017 season, CBS Sports reported.
Trump is also scheduled to sit for an interview with Fox News’ Brett Baier as part of the game’s preshow programming, AP reported. Presidents typically sit for an interview with the network broadcasting the game, but that’s another Super Bowl tradition that he — and his predecessor, former President Joe Biden — have been inconsistent with.