As a student, Donald Trump played football in high school. As a commercial Baron, he had a team in his opponent in the American Football Association, then filed a lawsuit against the facility. As a president, he distorted the professionals who took a knee during the national anthem as part of the social justice movement.
On Sunday, he adds to this complex date with sport when he becomes the first president to attend Super Paul.
The appearance of Mr. Trump in SuperDome in New Orleans to watch the defense champion twice Kansas City City on Philadelphia Eagles is the decision of the US Football Association to remove the slogans of “final racism” that were flammable in the regions at the end since 2021.
Mr. Trump recently ordered the abolition of programs that encourage diversity, fairness and integration throughout the federal government, and some critics believe that the league decision in response to the Republican president’s work. But the US Football Association Commissioner Roger Godel said that the diversity policies in the league are not inconsistent with the Trump administration’s efforts to end the DEI programs for the federal government.
Mr. Trump, who attended Super Bowl in 1992, avoided choosing the two sides in the Sunday match despite the general comments and social media that indicate rapprochement in Kansas City.
Last week, when he was asked about the team that will win, Mr. Trump said: “I don’t want to say, but there is a certain player Qorter who seems to be a good winner.” This seems to be a reference to Patrick Machoum.
Mr. Trump also published insulting the presidents in January after winning the AFC Championship.
The President played football as a student at the New York Military Academy. As a businessman in New York in the early eighties, the New Jersey generals in the United States Football League. Mr. Trump had filed a lawsuit against USFL and NFL integration. Usfl folded at the end.
There was friction between Mr. Trump and the American Football Association during his first term as president.
Mr. Trump took over a problem with the players who kneel during the national anthem to protest against social or racist injustice. This movement started in 2016 with the midfielder at 49 Cullen Ciberny in his knee during “The Star-SPANGLED BANNER” during the Denver Gallery game.
Mr. Trump, through social media and other public comments, insisted that the players are defending the national anthem, and called on the team owners to launch any player who did a knee.
“Do you not like to see one of the owners of the American Football Association, when someone does not respect us, you will say,“ Get a son ***** outside the field now. outside! Mr. Trump said with a loud applause in a march in Hunstiville, Alabama, in 2017.
Mr. Trump is expected to watch the game from a box in Parliament Speaker Mike Johnson, R. La. , Among the others. Mr. Trump won Missouri and Pennsylvania – the states he represented in the game – on his way to a second term in November.
His interest in sport extends until after football. Mr. Trump is a thirsty golf player who has several golf courses and hosted championships. He sponsored the boxing matches in the former casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and attended the UFC match at Madison Square Garden Weeks after winning a second term.
The White House said that Mr. Trump was playing golf with Tiger Woods on Sunday morning in Florida, where he spent the president’s weekend.
Some American Football Association teams have donated his campaigns, and Mr. Trump maintains friendships with Hershel Walker and Dog Floti, who played with the generals. Mr. Trump supported Walker’s unsuccessful offer as the Republican candidate for the American Senate seat from Georgia in 2022, and used it to become an ambassador to the Bahamas.
Mr. Trump has signed an order last week aimed at preventing sexually transformed women and girls from competing in women’s sports by targeting federal funding for schools that fail to comply.
Alfayen Tilri, a professor of politics and diversity expert at Northwestern University, said in an interview that the decision of the American Football Association to remove slogans “the end of racism” was “shameful”, given that the league “makes tens of billions of dollars to the bodies of black men to a large extent”
He said that the American Football Association should explain who was aimed at satisfying. The US Football Association said it was “choosing love” in one of the final areas of Super Bowl to encourage the country after a series of tragedies so far this year, including New Year’s Truck attack in the host New Orleans city that killed 14 people and wounded more than dozens.
Tilleri was not convinced. “I think they removed it because Mr. Trump is coming,” he said.
This story was reported by Associated Press.