Donald Trump's role in Fox's Super Bowl LIX coverage revealed ahead of Chiefs' game with Eagles in New Orleans

Donald Trump volition person his accidental connected Super Bowl Sunday.

The recently elected President has agreed to beryllium interviewed by Fox News' main governmental anchor Bret Baier during the network's Super Bowl LIX pregame coverage.

The interrogation was revealed by Fox connected Monday morning. The portion volition beryllium pre-recorded astatine Mar-a-Lago successful Palm Beach and aerial Sunday during the 3pm hour. Baier has not interviewed the erstwhile world tv prima since June of 2023, and Trump has antecedently criticized the anchor for allegedly being 'unfriendly' to him successful interviews.

The Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles are prepared to footwear disconnected from New Orleans' Superdome astatine 6:30pm EST. 

Presidents person been addressing the nationalist connected Super Bowl Sunday for the amended portion of the past 20 years, opening with CBS anchor Jim Nantz's interrogation with then-President George W. Bush successful 2004. 

Speaking connected Super Bowl Sunday successful 2019, Trump famously said helium would person a 'hard time' allowing his then-12-year-old lad Barron play shot owed to concussion concerns.

'I conscionable don't similar the reports that I spot coming retired having to bash with shot — I mean, it's a unsafe athletics and I deliberation it's truly tough,' Trump told CBS. 'I thought the instrumentality would get better, and it has. The helmets person gotten acold amended but it hasn't solved the problem.

'I hatred to accidental it due to the fact that I emotion to ticker football,' helium continued. 'I deliberation the NFL is simply a large product, but I truly deliberation that arsenic acold arsenic my lad — well, I've heard NFL players saying they wouldn't fto their sons play football. So, it's not wholly unique, but I would person a hard clip with it.'

He besides took recognition for pressuring NFL players to halt kneeling successful protestation of racist constabulary brutality.

‘But they haven’t been kneeling and they person been respecting the emblem and their ratings person been terrific ever since,’ Trump said successful 2019 aft what turned retired to beryllium a flimsy down twelvemonth for the NFL’s humanities beardown viewership.

Biden skipped interviews for the past 2 Super Bowls, drafting disapproval from Trump. 

Trump, too, skipped 1 Super Bowl during his archetypal administration.

Barack Obama, connected the different hand, ne'er missed the accidental to talk to Americans connected Super Bowl Sunday, doing an interrogation each 8 years helium was successful office.