Trump gloats as Taylor Swift booed at Super Bowl and backs Elon Musk’s government cuts: Live

Here’s the president confidently predicting a Chiefs win in his pre-game interview, which did not come to pass.

“I hate to do it but.. I watched this great quarterback who has a phenomenal wife. She’s a MAGA fan… she’s a great person. I guess you have to say that when a quarterback wins as much as he’s won, I’d have to go with Kansas City,” he said, referring to Patrick Mahomes and his wife Brittany.

Ultimately it was the Philadelphia Eagles that won the day, as they did in 2018 during Trump’s first term, after which multiple members of the team chose not to attend the customary invitation to the White House that is extended to all Super Bowl champions.

Whether they will do so again this time remains to be seen.

Here’s Mike Bedigan on Trump leaving the great occasion more than an hour early.

En route to the Super Bowl, which he became the first ever sitting president to attend in person, Trump told reporters on Air Force One that he will formally announce plans for the U.S. to implement tariffs of 25 percent on imports of steel and aluminum, the first salvo in what could be the beginning of a global trade war.

Before the game, the president gave an interview to Bret Baier of Fox News, a tradition begun by George W Bush and continued by Barack Obama but abandoned in the Joe Biden era.

Trump used the sitdown with Baier to double-down on his support for billionaire Elon Musk’s increasingly controversial Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) in its efforts to strip back waste in the federal government, denying that Musk had anything to gain from his activities.

Despite backing the losing side, Donald Trump relished his trip to the Super Bowl in New Orleans on Sunday, not least because pop superstar Taylor Swift was booed by fans when her face appeared on the jumbotron in the Caesar’s Superdome.

The president posted a clip of the incident on his Truth Social platform from the Libs of Tik Tok account and wrote: “The only one that had a tougher night than the Kansas City Chiefs was Taylor Swift.

“She got BOOED out of the Stadium. MAGA is very unforgiving!”

He also had this complaint to make to the NFL about the big game, which saw the Philadelphia Eagles prevent the Kansas City Chiefs securing a historic “three-peat” with a 40-22 win.

Here’s more on Swift from Mike Bedigan.

After years of railing against immigrants coming to America, Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday to prioritize the U.S. resettlement of white South African “refugees” suffering from what he called “government-sponsored race-based discrimination.”

Trump also shut down all federal funding for the country, much of which is used to battle AIDS.

Afrikaners, who largely benefitted as white people from the historically racial discriminatory system of apartheid in South Africa, would be resettled in America through the U.S. refugee program.

Trump suspended the resettlement program by executive order on his first day in office.

Trump accused the South African government in his order of discriminating against the white Afrikaans, descendants of the largely Dutch colonists who arrived in the country in the 1600s.

Immigration advocacy groups are asking Trump administration officials to release the identities of the more than three dozen migrants that they’ve sent to the U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay out of concern they are being sent to a “legal black hole.”

Potential hires have been scrutinized for whether they’ve ever made a comment critical of Trump or worked for an antagonist. Applicants are also asked whether they side with Trump’s views on issues such as Ukraine, NATO, the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and the Republican’s false claims the 2020 election was stolen, sources familiar with the process told The Wall Street Journal.

More than half of Americans say they approve of Trump’s mass deportation program, according to a new CBS News poll.

Approximately 59 percent of respondents said they approve of his plan, which includes massive immigration raids in large cities, restricting asylum access, using Guantanamo Bay to hold migrants and more.

Forty-one percent of respondents said they disapprove

Trump signed a proclamation declaring February 9 “Gulf of America Day” as Air Force One flew over the Gulf of Mexico – recently renamed to Gulf of America.

While en route to the Super Bowl in New Orleans, Trump signed the proclamation, making it the first Gulf of America Day.

The president called the event, “Even bigger than the Super Bowl”.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem called the FBI “so corrupt” on Sunday after the Los Angeles Times reported there would be an immigration raid.

The report cited an unnamed law enforcement officer who confirmed they were needed to carry-out the raid.

“The FBI is so corrupt. We will work with any and every agency to stop leaks and prosecute these crooked deep state agents to the fullest extent of the law,” Noem wrote on X.