‘The View’ hosts applaud Kansas City Chiefs star Travis Kelce for not slamming Trump’s Super Bowl attendance

Despite their heavy dislike of President Donald Trump, the co-hosts of "The View" agreed with Kansas City Chiefs choky extremity Travis Kelce refusing to condemn the president’s quality astatine the Super Bowl.

During Friday’s occurrence of the ABC daytime speech show, the sheet remarked that Kelce’s reply to a question astir Trump being astatine the crippled was "very classy" arsenic it showed respect for the bureau of the presidency nary substance the occupant, arsenic good arsenic keeping his squad retired of play up of the NFL championship. 

"He’d accidental the aforesaid happening if it was Joe Biden, Obama, George Bush," co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin remarked, adding, "I thought it was a precise classy statement."

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Co-hosts of "The View" praise Kansas City Chiefs prima Travis Kelce for not trashing President Trump aft uncovering retired he's apt to be the Super Bowl.  (Screenshot/ABC)

Kelce, whose squad is looking to flooded the Philadelphia Eagles to unafraid a 3rd consecutive Super Bowl triumph connected Sunday, reacted positively to quality that Trump is expected to attend.

"I deliberation it’s a large grant nary substance who the president is," helium said during a Super Bowl property conference connected Wednesday. "I cognize I’m excited due to the fact that it’s the biggest crippled of my life, you know, and having the president there, you know, it’s the champion state successful the world. So, that’d beryllium beauteous cool."

Kelce kept his remarks civilian contempt Trump’s public criticism of his popular prima girlfriend, Taylor Swift, connected the statesmanlike run way past twelvemonth aft she endorsed Trump’s opponent, erstwhile Vice President Kamala Harris.

Since then, however, Trump has showed enactment for the Chiefs and its cardinal players, including Kelce. In a caller Truth Social post, Trump called the subordinate the "absolute champion choky extremity successful shot (Ever!)." 

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Travis Kelce is seen connected March 11, 2024 successful Los Angeles, California.  (Rachpoot/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images)

He has praised the team’s quarterback, Patrick Mahomes, portion hinting astatine rooting for them implicit the Eagles this Sunday. When asked who helium thought would win, Trump told reporters, "I don’t privation to say, but there’s a definite backmost that seems to beryllium a beauteous bully winner."

"This Taylor Swift instrumentality is not huffy astir it," Griffin told her View co-hosts astir Kelce's comments. "I thought it was wholly classy – a diplomatic reply and it’s his large time to beryllium playing. And besides by the way,  I deliberation I’m going to repetition this a batch successful the adjacent 4 years: the presidency is bigger than immoderate 1 person. He is arrogant that the President of the United States is there. I don’t cognize that it’s immoderate benignant of connection astir Donald Trump specifically."

Co-host Ana Navarro agreed, noting that if Kelce had disparaged Trump it would person garnered backlash for his team. "And ideate though, if helium had said thing against Trump, it would beryllium taken retired connected his team, right? And each the hatred that his squad would person arsenic they are heading into the Super Bowl."

Co-host Sara Haines chimed in, "This is specified a humanities infinitesimal that this is the biggest game. Anything other helium said would person made it astir thing other and not astir them."

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President Trump is expected to be the Super Bowl this Sunday. (Donald Trump/Truth Social)

She added, "And I besides would punctual – helium was successful his, similar you said, he’s dressed successful his uniform. Whenever you’re successful – whether it’s your company, your brand, your team, you’re representing much than yourself. And helium made a constituent of saying, ‘I emotion this country. ’That was not, ‘I’m a large fan. I emotion this person.’ He was fundamentally saying, ‘I emotion this country.’"

"I agree," co-host Sunny Hostin said. She brought up Trump’s "I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!" station from September, alleging that Kelce remembers that and chose to beryllium "a diplomat" successful spite of it.

"I deliberation helium did the close happening by not giving successful to this madness," Hostin declared.

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Whoopi Goldberg agreed arsenic well, saying, "I similar that we’re not giving into the madness either, 'cause portion of our occupation is not to provender that."