Travis Kelce sends powerful Super Bowl message to Trump amid Swift-Mahomes political tension

Travis Kelce said it is an 'honor' to person Donald Trump astatine the Super Bowl successful New Orleans connected Sunday, portion teammate Patrick Mahomes admitted helium was flattered to beryllium praised by the President successful the Oval Office earlier this week.

It comes amid divided enactment for Trump from their respective partners. Taylor Swift publically endorsed Kamala Harris, taking a swipe astatine Vice-President J.D. Vance successful the process, portion her adjacent person and Patrick's woman Brittany backed him.

After it emerged that helium would beryllium astatine Sunday's game, Trump praised three-time Super Bowl victor Mahomes without mentioning him straight connected Tuesday, saying erstwhile asked to prime sides: 'I don't privation to accidental but there's a definite backmost that seems to beryllium a beauteous bully winner.'

Mahomes responded to the President Wednesday, saying: 'I didn't spot that clip, but evidently it's chill to perceive that he's seen maine play shot and respects the crippled that I play. It's ever chill to beryllium capable to play successful beforehand of a sitting president, idiosyncratic successful the apical presumption successful our country.'

Moments later, Kelce went a measurement further successful welcoming Trump to the crippled by saying: 'It's awesome. It's a large honor, I deliberation nary substance who the President is. 

'I'm excited due to the fact that it's the biggest crippled of my beingness and having the President there, it's the champion state successful the satellite truthful it's beauteous cool.'

Kelce's comments Wednesday were striking giving however fiercely Trump has outlined his dislike of his woman successful the past. 

'I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT,' Trump wrote connected societal media, lone successful September, little than a week aft Swift went nationalist with enactment for Harris.

Mahomes' woman Brittany, meanwhile, liked aggregate societal media posts and comments supporting Trump successful the run-up to the November predetermination and it didn't spell unnoticed from Trump himself. 

'I privation to convey beauteous Brittany Mahomes for truthful powerfully defending me, and the information that MAGA is the top and astir almighty Political Movement successful the History of our present Failing Country,' Trump wrote connected his Truth Social web up of his electoral triumph implicit Kamala Harris successful November.

He ended his station with a alternatively prophetic message: 'See you some astatine the Super Bowl!'

Brittany is expected to beryllium connected manus astatine Super Bowl LIX aft giving commencement to the couple's 3rd child. So, too, is Trump, who accepted an invitation from scandalized New Orleans Saints proprietor Gayle Benson. 

Brittany isn't the lone subordinate of the Chiefs Kingdom who supported Trump.

Owner Clark Hunt's woman Tavia backed Trump's imaginativeness for a borderline partition with Mexico, and connected Wednesday, her girl Gracie expressed her excitement implicit Trump's beingness astatine Super Bowl LIX.

'It's beauteous cool. It's beauteous awesome,' she told Outkick's Riley Gaines. 'Sometimes I conscionable look astatine whoever I'm talking to and I'm similar yea that conscionable wasn't connected my 2025 bingo card. But wow that's conscionable perfectly incredible.' 

Now, though, Trump and Swift mightiness stock a rooting involvement successful the Chiefs.

Trump hasn't officially tipped his manus 1 mode oregon another, but helium did congratulate the Chiefs connected Truth Social for reaching the Super Bowl, portion omitting immoderate notation of the Eagles – a squad he's quarreled with successful the past. 

After Philadelphia's Super Bowl triumph successful February of 2018, Trump disinvited the Eagles from the accepted White House ceremonial that June amid rumors respective players planned to boycott the event.

'The Philadelphia Eagles Football Team was invited to the White House,' Trump wrote connected Twitter astatine the time. 'Unfortunately, lone a tiny fig of players decided to come, and we canceled the event.'

Trump past linked the contented to NFL players who protested racist constabulary brutality by kneeling during the anthem, arsenic good arsenic those who remained successful the locker country during The Star-Spangled Banner.

'Staying successful the Locker Room for the playing of our National Anthem is arsenic disrespectful to our state arsenic kneeling,' helium added. 'Sorry!'

Only a fistful of Eagles players stay successful Philadelphia from that Super Bowl-winning team: Right tackle Lane Johnson, antiaircraft extremity Brandon Graham, kicker Jake Elliott and agelong snapper Rick Lovato.

'Congratulations to the Kansas City Chiefs,' Trump wrote connected Truth Social aft Andy Reid's squad won the AFC Championship past month. 'What a GREAT Team, Coach, Quarterback, and virtually everything else, including those fantastic FANS, that voted for maine (MAGA!) successful grounds numbers.'

Trump bushed Harris successful Missouri with 58.5 percent of the vote.

Years earlier, aft Mahomes' Chiefs bushed the San Francisco 49ers successful Super Bowl LIV, Trump famously congratulated the squad from 'the Great State of Kansas.'

The Chiefs play successful Kansas City, Missouri, and not Kansas City, Kansas, a smaller municipality a fewer miles distant crossed the authorities border.