Trump will 'soil' Super Bowl LIX with possible historic appearance, columnist says

As the countdown for Super Bowl LIX continues, a high-profile U.S. governmental fig is expected to beryllium connected hand.  

Punchbowl News was archetypal to study that President Donald Trump volition apt beryllium successful attendance erstwhile the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles spell head-to-head successful this year's Super Bowl successful New Orleans. The Associated Press confirmed the report, citing a White House official.

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The Caesars Superdome is being prepared for Super Bowl LIX astatine the Caesars Superdome connected January 16, 2025 successful New Orleans, Louisiana.  (Chris Graythen/Getty Images)

A root acquainted with the substance besides told Fox News Digital helium would beryllium astatine the game.

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Trump would beryllium the archetypal sitting president to be the game, per the New York Post. 

News of Trump's impending sojourn to Caesars Superdome this Sunday sparked beardown reactions. On Tuesday, an op-ed portion from USA Today columnist Mike Freeman addressed the president's reported determination to ticker the NFL's title crippled successful person. Freeman characterized Trump arsenic "the astir divisive president of our lifetime."

He asserted that the Super Bowl is typically a infinitesimal successful which the bulk of Americans travel together, contempt their differences. 

"We enactment speech politics. We enactment speech our differences. We instrumentality portion successful a large American tradition," Freeman noted. 

The Caesars Superdome is being prepared for Super Bowl LIX astatine the Caesars Superdome connected January 16, 2025 successful New Orleans, Louisiana.  (Chris Graythen/Getty Images)

However, alternatively of allowing the large crippled to instrumentality connected its yearly relation "as a genuine infinitesimal of unity," Freeman argued that Trump's beingness could sully the moment's integrity. 

"Trump soils everything. Now, he's doing the aforesaid to the biggest crippled of the year," helium continued.

Freeman besides pointed to immoderate of the apt logistical concerns Trump's beingness would make for information unit starring up to and during Sunday. 

"There's a crushed sitting presidents don't usually go. It's perchance a information nightmare. But also, to me, they privation the crippled to beryllium the halfway of attention, not them," helium wrote.

Trump did not be galore NFL games during his archetypal word successful the White House. However, helium did marque an quality astatine the Pittsburgh Steelers' crippled against the New York Jets successful October pursuing a run rally successful Pennsylvania.

The president has been a much predominant impermanent astatine assemblage shot games implicit the past fewer years. He made his beingness felt astatine the Alabama-Georgia crippled successful September and attended the Army-Navy crippled pursuing the 2024 U.S. statesmanlike election.

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Before the crippled kicks off, Trump volition talk with Fox News Channel’s Bret Baier. The pre-taped interrogation took spot astatine Mar-a-Lago successful Palm Beach, Florida, and volition aerial successful the 3 p.m. ET hr connected Super Bowl Sunday.

The quality of Trump's upcoming quality coincided with a study from The Athletic astir the NFL's determination to power the "End Racism" end portion signage to messages of "Choose Love" and "It Takes All of Us." The messages are 1 facet of the league's multilayered "Inspire Change," which was created successful 2018 and makes efforts to beforehand diverseness and inclusion.

Super Bowl LIX volition footwear disconnected astatine 6:30 p.m. ET. Pregame sum tin beryllium seen connected FOX opening astatine 1 p.m. ET. Tubi volition besides watercourse sum connected its level for the archetypal time.

Fox News' Ryan Gaydos contributed to this report.

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