President Donald Trump’s posse at Sunday’s Tremendous Bowl recreation in New Orleans included Eric Trump, Lara Trump, Ivanka Trump and her son.
However as the opposite members of the primary household watched the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles vie for the championship, first woman Melania Trump was nowhere to be discovered.
Melania Trump has made few public appearances since Trump misplaced to former President Joe Biden in 2020 and was not often current throughout Trump’s 2024 presidential marketing campaign.
In a press release Sunday, Trump stated that the primary woman “joins me in sending our greatest needs for a terrific Tremendous Bowl Sunday.”
The president, who has indicated he believes the Chiefs will win, reportedly attended as a visitor of Saints proprietor Gayle Benson.
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His look on the recreation marks the primary time a sitting U.S. president has attended the annual NFL championship, resulting in elevated safety measures, in response to the Secret Service.
“In depth planning and coordination have been in place to make sure the protection of all attendees, gamers, and employees,” Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi stated in a press release Tuesday.
Fox Information’ Bret Baier interviewed Trump in a pre-recorded section that aired earlier than the beginning of the sport. The interview, which is often carried out by the channel internet hosting the sport, has change into considerably of a typical observe for U.S. presidents, however Trump skipped the chance in 2018 throughout his first administration. Equally, former President Joe Biden skipped the interview in 2023 and 2024.
Trump has complimented Kansas Metropolis Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes a number of occasions, together with in his interview with Baier.
“Clearly, it’s cool to listen to that he’s seen me play soccer and respects the sport that I play,” Mahomes advised reporters Wednesday.
He added: “It’s at all times cool to have the ability to play in entrance of a sitting president, somebody that’s on the high place in our nation.”
Trump additionally acquired a heat welcome from Kansas Metropolis Chiefs tight finish Travis Kelce, who’s relationship Taylor Swift, the pop star Trump stated he hates.
“It’s a terrific honor,” Kelce advised reporters on Wednesday. “Regardless of who the president is, I do know I’m excited as a result of it’s the most important recreation of my life, you realize, and having the president there — it’s one of the best nation on the planet — and that’s fairly cool.”
Trump isn’t the one public determine with ties to politics who confirmed as much as the sport. Former first woman Jill Biden, a identified Eagles fan, additionally joined along with her grandson Hunter. Former President Joe Biden didn’t attend.
Trump’s attendance on the huge recreation follows his resolution to attend the Military-Navy soccer recreation in December, accompanied by then-Vice President-elect JD Vance, now-Secretary of Protection Pete Hegseth, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Daniel Penny, who put a homeless Black man in a chokehold on the New York Metropolis subway in 2023. (Penny was acquitted of killing the person, Jordan Neely, in 2024.)
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