The real reason Donald Trump left the 2025 Super Bowl early

Donald Trump near the Super Bowl earlier the 4th fourth connected Sunday, starring immoderate to speculate implicit the reasoning for his aboriginal departure.

Some thought the president near due to the fact that the squad helium picked to triumph – the Kansas City Chiefs – were getting an implicit beatdown by the Philadelphia Eagles. Others complained connected societal media that helium wasted payer dollars by lone going to fractional the game.

But the president's authoritative White House docket ever had him departing astir 8:05 p.m. Central Time.

Trump connected Sunday became the first-ever sitting president to be the Super Bowl. It was apt skipped by his predecessors owed to the headache it could origin for the astir highly protected idiosyncratic to spell successful and retired of the stadium.

When a president attends nationalist events, the grounds of said lawsuit go a batch much chaotic and necessitate a ton much information from members of the U.S. Secret Service and section instrumentality enforcement partners.

For information and logistical purposes, it's not antithetic for presidents to depart crowded, nationalist events earlier they end, oregon for the assemblage to beryllium prevented from exiting oregon entering erstwhile the president is moving.

For example, then-First Lady Jill Biden attended the World Series successful November 2022 to cheer for the Philadelphia Phillies against the Houston Astros. She besides near the crippled aboriginal to get a caput commencement connected the crowd.

It's apt information officials and instrumentality enforcement wanted to debar wrestling with thousands of radical anxious to exit the Caesars Superdome Stadium connected Sunday astatine the decision of the NFL title game.

Critics connected societal media were already successful meltdown mode implicit Trump's attendance astatine the Super Bowl, which immoderate estimates assertion outgo the authorities up to $15-$20 million.

'Taxpayers paid implicit $20 cardinal for Felon Donald Trump to be fractional the Super Bowl. He reportedly near earlier Halftime. Where is DOGE at?' a wide podcaster posted to X.

Republicans against Trump wrote: 'Trump is the archetypal president to be a Super Bowl game, a travel that volition outgo taxpayers millions of dollars—some estimates suggest arsenic overmuch arsenic $15 million. What happened to 'government efficiency'?'

Trump arrived astatine the Superdome successful New Orleans, Louisiana astir 4:30 p.m. Central Time connected Sunday – an hr earlier kickoff.

The president remained a fewer minutes up of his authoritative schedule, with the motorcade departing the stadium astatine 7:55 p.m. Central Time.

The Super Bowl crippled lasted astatine slightest different hr aft Trump departed.

He arrived backmost successful Washington, D.C. astatine 11:51 p.m. Eastern Time.

Trump predicted that the Chiefs, who were lined-up for a three-peat but were perfectly crushed by the Philadelphia Eagles connected Sunday, would win.

He praised their backmost Patrick Mahomes during an interrogation with Fox News Bret Baier wherever helium claimed the QB's woman Brittany Mahomes is simply a 'mega-Trump fan.'

'I hatred to bash it – I conjecture you person to accidental that erstwhile a backmost wins arsenic overmuch arsenic he's won – I person to spell with Kansas City,' the president told Baier successful clips played up of the large crippled connected Sunday.

'At the aforesaid time, Philadelphia is fantastic, it's going to beryllium conscionable a large game,' helium added. 

Trump went connected to praise Mahomes and his wife, who are wide fashionable connected societal media and are rumored to beryllium Trump supporters.

'I've watched this large backmost – who has, by the way, a phenomenal wife, okay, she's a Trump fan,' the president claimed. 'She's a mega-fan, truthful I hap to emotion her.'

'She's a large person,' helium said of Brittany Mahomes. 'I watched her being interviewed, I said it's beauteous good, but she's large and he's great.'

Patrick Mahomes, erstwhile asked astir Trump attending the crippled connected Sunday, said: 'It's ever chill to beryllium capable to play successful beforehand of a sitting president.'

Meanwhile, his woman received backlash successful August aft she liked an Instagram representation posted by Trump that included the GOP's 2024 platform. Other reports noted that she liked a remark connected 1 of her ain posts that work 'TRUMP-VANCE 2024.'

'To beryllium a hater arsenic an adult, you person to person immoderate heavy rooted issues you garbage to heal from childhood,' she wrote successful a station responding to the backlash without straight addressing the claims of being a Trump supporter. 'There's nary crushed your encephalon is afloat developed and you hatred to spot others doing well.'

The 29-year-old backmost made it wide past twelvemonth helium was not endorsing anyone successful the 2024 statesmanlike election.