Trump to attend Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans

President Trump volition be Super Bowl LIX successful New Orleans betwixt the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles connected Sunday.

Trump, 78, volition go the archetypal sitting president to be the NFL’s title game.

Making a splashy quality astatine a large sporting lawsuit is thing caller for Trump. Most recently, helium attended the Army-Navy game successful December successful Landover, Md., alongside Vice President JD Vance and different allies.

But Trump has been attending championships since his archetypal term, erstwhile helium was booed astatine a World Series game successful 2019 betwixt the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros. Nationals fans adjacent responded with chants of “Lock him up!” portion Trump was successful attendance.

Trump has besides attended large assemblage shot games, including the nationalist rubric crippled successful January 2020, and an October NFL crippled successful Pittsburgh portion helium was campaigning to instrumentality to office.

The Super Bowl is already 1 of the astir tightly secured events worldwide each year. Authorities person been connected precocious alert successful New Orleans since New Year’s Day, erstwhile a Texas antheral killed 14 radical and wounded 59 others successful a vehicular onslaught successful the city’s fashionable French Quarter.

“If you’re going to take the president anywhere, taking him into an situation that has been planned and designated arsenic a nationalist peculiar information lawsuit gives you a spot of an advantage,” erstwhile Secret Service cause Jonathan Wackrow told CNN.

With News Wire Services