President Biden will welcome Kansas City chiefs to the White House on May 31, the White House announced Friday.
The Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers in February to win Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas. He also won the Super Bowl the previous year and visited the White House in June 2023.
During last year’s visit, Biden, who often jokes that he is a Philadelphia Eagles fan by marriage, said he predicts Chiefs star Patrick Mahomes will be considered one of the best quarterbacks of all time.
The White House did not provide further details about the upcoming visit, but Chiefs players have been making headlines recently. Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker received backlash for a commencement speech during which he told female graduates they could find more satisfaction being wives and mothers than in their careers.
Mahomes weighed in this week, saying that while he doesn’t agree with everything Butker said, he is a “good person” who has the right to express himself.
And Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce is famous for having a relationship with megastar Taylor Swift, an influential voice from whom the Biden campaign has reportedly been seeking endorsements.
Surrounding the Super Bowl, conspiracy theories arose that the relationship was designed to gain football viewers, an idea that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell rejected at the time.
Conservative social media was swallowed up by the theory that the NFL was fixing the games so the Chiefs would get to the final game of the season and Swift could throw her support behind Biden in the biggest spotlight possible.
Swift supported Biden in 2020 and spoke out against former President Trump before the election. Her endorsement would be a big boost to young voters, who Biden has struggled to gain enthusiasm for this cycle.
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