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While celebrating the Philadelphia Eagles’ 2025 Super Bowl win, Donald Trump turned his attention to Taylor Swift and the Kansas City Chiefs.
As he talked up the Eagles and their journey to becoming the 2025 champions during his speech at the White House, Trump took a jab at Swift, 35.
Trump, 78, noted that the Eagles were facing the Chiefs — including Swift’s boyfriend Travis Kelce — and said the Super Bowl was “a little surprising” but “an incredible game” during his address.
Trump mentioned Swift while mentioning that he “was there, I watched in person,” at the game in New Orleans on Feb. 9, which marked the first time a sitting president has ever attended a Super Bowl.
“I was there along with Taylor Swift,” Trump said on Monday. “How did that work out?” he asked, to laughs from the crowd, before repeating the question: “How did that one work out?”
Donald Trump and the Philadelphia Eagles on April 28, 2025 at the White House. Andrew Harnik/Getty
Trump’s nudge at Swift comes after previous attacks on the singer. In Sept. 2024, following Swift’s endorsement of his presidential opponent Kamala Harris, he wrote “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!” in a post on Truth Social. He followed the post with an appearance on Fox & Friends the next day, where he continued to bash Swift.
“I was not a Taylor Swift fan,” he said on the show. “It was just a question of time. … But she’s a very liberal person. She seems to always endorse a Democrat. And she’ll probably pay a price for it in the marketplace.”
In other parts of his speech, the president talked up the Eagles’ controversial “tush push” play, complemented star running back Saquon Barkley and invited players like Lane Johnson to speak at the podium.
Several Eagles players, including star quarterback and Super Bowl MVP Jalen Hurts, were noticeably absent from the team’s visit to the White House on Monday. Trump’s speech at the Eagles’ visit acknowledged Hurts’ contribution to the 2025 championship, calling him a “terrific player” despite the quarterback’s absence.
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Hours before the team’s visit, NBC News White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor reported that the Eagles quarterback would miss the trip, along with other members of the 2025 Super Bowl championship team. “A White House official confirms to me that @Eagles quarterback @JalenHurts will not be visiting the White House when the Super Bowl champions come later this afternoon,” Alcindor wrote in a post on X.
“The White House says Hurts and other players who can’t attend had ‘scheduling conflicts,’ ” she added.
NBC Philly reporter John Clark noted that Hurts, DeVonta Smith, AJ Brown and “a lot of members of the defense” were not in attendance at the visit in a post on X.
