On Sunday, President Donald Trump becomes the first president in office to attend a Super Bowl.
ByWatch the 6abc Philadelphia 24/7 stream featuring Action News, AccuWeather and EntertainmentAs a student, Donald Trump played high school football. As a business baron, he owned a team in an upstart rival to the NFL and then sued the established league. As president, he denigrated pros who took a knee during the national anthem as part of a social justice movement.
Trump's appearance at the Caesars Superdome to see the two-time defending champion Kansas City Chiefs take on the Philadelphia Eagles follows the NFL's decision to remove the "End Racism" slogans that have been stenciled on the end zones since 2021. Last week, when asked which team would win, Trump said, "I don't want to say, but there's a certain quarterback that seems to be a pretty good winner." That appeared to be a reference to the Chiefs' Patrick Mahomes.The president played football as a student at the New York Military Academy. As a New York businessman in the early 1980s, he owned the New Jersey Generals of the United States Football League. Trump had sued to force a merger of the USFL and the NFL.
Trump is expected to watch the game from a box in the company of House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., among others. Trump won Missouri and Pennsylvania - the states represented in the game - on his way to a second term in November. Some NFL team owners have donated to his campaigns and Trump maintains friendships with Herschel Walker and Doug Flutie, who played for the Generals. Trump endorsed Walker's unsuccessful bid as the Republican candidate for a U.S. Senate seat from Georgia in 2022, and has tapped him to become ambassador to the Bahamas.
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