Donald Trump introduced earlier this week that he’ll attend Sunday’s Tremendous Bowl recreation in New Orleans.
One drawback—the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs star tight finish, Travis Kelce, is relationship the voice of his opposing voter base.
Taylor Swift has an plain affect that even Trump can’t ignore. From dewy-eyed tweensto childless cat women, the “Unhealthy Blood” hitmaker has riled up a fanbase on a platform of Democratic values—and doing so from a worldwide stage.
In the meantime, all Trump can actually do is throw out random Reality Socialposts like, “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT” after Swiftendorsed Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
After all, Swift has executed her personal condemning as nicely. In 2020, the singer referred to as out Trump for “stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism” amid the George Floyd protests after he tweeted, “When the looting begins, the capturing begins.”
In her tweet, shewrote, “We’ll vote you out in November.”
Returning to the Tremendous Bowl, it looks as if Kelce tried to play diplomat when requested how he felt in regards to the president attending the sport.
Kelce referred to as it “cool” and stated it was a “nice honor,” which, in fact,didn’t land nicely with Swifties.
However Trump’s go to gained’t simply be awkward due to Swift—Trump has a deeply contentious historical past with the NFL.
Again in 2016, whenColin Kaepernickand different gamers started kneeling in response to police brutality, Trump began overtly attacking the NFL and its athletes.
In 2018, Trump recommended kicking soccer gamers overseas who kneeled throughout the nationwide anthem.
“You must stand proudly for the nationwide anthem otherwise you should not be enjoying, you should not be there, possibly you should not be within the nation,” he stated whereas praising a then-ban on kneeling.
Then, in 2020, the NFL did one thing it had by no means executed earlier than when the league stood as much as Trump bystanding with its gamers.
This was the beginning of the “finish racism” slogan,which the NFL plans to not embrace throughout the massive recreation on Sunday.
Nonetheless, commissioner Roger Goodell insisted that the NFL is standing byDEI initiatives, which Trump has overtly attacked.
“We obtained into variety efforts as a result of we felt it was the correct factor for the Nationwide Soccer League,” Goodell stated. “And we’re going to proceed these efforts as a result of we’ve not solely satisfied ourselves, we’ve confirmed it to ourselves—it does make the NFL higher.”
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Both manner, Trump will enter a stadium full of followers and gamers who haven’t all the time been on workforce MAGA.
