Trump to attend Super Bowl 2025, becoming first sitting president to do so — suggests Chiefs favored to win
President Trump plans to attend Sunday’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, becoming the first sitting commander in chief to attend America’s biggest annual sporting event, The Post has learned — with the president hinting Tuesday that he thinks the Kansas City Chiefs might win.
The planned presence of Trump, 78, at the Caesars Superdome was first reported by Punchbowl News and confirmed by federal law enforcement sources.
While the full traveling party has yet to be announced, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem are expected to join the president at the game, sources familiar with the planning confirmed to The Post.
Trump, asked who he thought might win, told reporters in the Oval Office Tuesday afternoon that “I don’t want to say, but there’s a certain quarterback that seems to be a pretty good winner,” almost certainly referencing the Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes.
The president’s attendance will necessitate an extra layer of security across New Orleans, with the game taking place 39 days after an ISIS-inspired terrorist drove a truck through crowds celebrating New Year’s Eve on Bourbon Street, killing 14 people and injuring dozens more.
Trump also is recording an interview with Fox News host Bret Baier, which will air on the Fox network’s pregame show at 3 p.m. ahead of the 6:30 p.m. kickoff between the Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles.
Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce is dating pop superstar Taylor Swift, who is also expected to attend the game — potentially creating awkward dynamics after she urged voters to reject Trump in November.
Although Trump has tipped his hand about his views on the matchup, it’s unclear whether he will be rooting for either team, after winning both Missouri and swing-state Pennsylvania to help him retake the White House.
Four sitting vice presidents have attended the Super Bowl. In 1971, Spiro Agnew, a devoted Baltimore Colts fan, watched his team beat the Dallas Cowboys, 16-13, at the Orange Bowl in Miami.
Eleven years later, then-VP George H.W. Bush watched the San Francisco 49ers win their first-ever Super Bowl, 26-21, over the Cincinnati Bengals at the Silverdome in Pontiac, Mich.
In 1994, Al Gore was at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta to watch the Dallas Cowboys consign the Buffalo Bills to their fourth straight Super Bowl loss, 30-13.
Mike Pence is the most recent vice president to attend the big game, showing up in 2017 to Super Bowl LI at Reliant Stadium in Houston to watch the New England Patriots rally from a 28-3 deficit to shock the Atlanta Falcons in overtime, 34-28.
Bush did attend a Super Bowl as a former president, taking part in the coin toss alongside Cowboys legend Roger Staubach prior to the Patriots’ upset win over the heavily favored St. Louis Rams in Super Bowl XXXVI.508
That game, like Sunday’s, was held in New Orleans.