President Trump will attend Tremendous Bowl LIX in New Orleans between the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday.
Trump, 78, will develop into the primary sitting president to attend the NFL’s championship recreation.
Making a splashy look at a serious sporting occasion is nothing new for Trump. Most not too long ago, he attended the Military-Navy recreation in December in Landover, Md., alongside Vice President JD Vance and different allies.
However Trump has been attending championships since his first time period, when he was booed at a World Collection recreation in 2019 between the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros. Nationals followers even responded with chants of “Lock him up!” whereas Trump was in attendance.
Trump has additionally attended main faculty soccer video games, together with the nationwide title recreation in January 2020, and an October NFL recreation in Pittsburgh whereas he was campaigning to return to workplace.
The Tremendous Bowl is already one of the crucial tightly secured occasions worldwide every year. Authorities have been on excessive alert in New Orleans since New 12 months’s Day, when a Texas man killed 14 folks and wounded 59 others in a vehicular assault within the metropolis’s common French Quarter.
“If you’re going to take the president anywhere, taking him into an environment that has been planned and designated as a national special security event gives you a bit of an advantage,” former Secret Service agent Jonathan Wackrow advised CNN.
