Donald Trump introduced earlier this week that he’ll attend Sunday’s Tremendous Bowl sport in New Orleans.
One downside—the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs star tight finish, Travis Kelce, is relationship the voice of his opposing voter base.
Taylor Swift has an simple affect that even Trump can’t ignore. From dewy-eyed tweens to childless cat girls, the “Bad Blood” hitmaker has riled up a fanbase on a platform of Democratic values—and doing so from a worldwide stage.
In the meantime, all Trump can actually do is throw out random Reality Social posts like, “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT” after Swift endorsed Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.
In fact, Swift has accomplished her personal condemning as nicely. In 2020, the singer referred to as out Trump for “stoking the fires of white supremacy and racism” amid the George Floyd protests after he tweeted, “When the looting starts, the shooting starts.”
In her tweet, she wrote, “We will vote you out in November.”
Returning to the Tremendous Bowl, it looks as if Kelce tried to play diplomat when requested how he felt concerning the president attending the sport.
Kelce referred to as it “cool” and stated it was a “great honor,” which, in fact, didn’t land nicely with Swifties.
However Trump’s go to gained’t simply be awkward due to Swift—Trump has a deeply contentious historical past with the NFL.
Again in 2016, when Colin Kaepernick and different gamers started kneeling in response to police brutality, Trump began overtly attacking the NFL and its athletes.
In 2018, Trump instructed kicking soccer gamers in a foreign country who kneeled through the nationwide anthem.
“You have to stand proudly for the national anthem or you shouldn’t be playing, you shouldn’t be there, maybe you shouldn’t be in the country,” he said while praising a then-ban on kneeling.
Then, in 2020, the NFL did one thing it had by no means accomplished earlier than when the league stood as much as Trump by standing with its gamers.
This was the beginning of the “end racism” slogan, which the NFL plans to not embrace through the huge sport on Sunday.
Nonetheless, commissioner Roger Goodell insisted that the NFL is standing by DEI initiatives, which Trump has overtly attacked.
“We got into diversity efforts because we felt it was the right thing for the National Football League,” Goodell stated. “And we’re going to continue those efforts because we’ve not only convinced ourselves, we’ve proven it to ourselves—it does make the NFL better.”
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Both approach, Trump will enter a stadium filled with followers and gamers who haven’t all the time been on crew MAGA.
