Trump savages Taylor Swift in fresh social media barrage as president emerges the real Super Bowl winner
Donald Trump emerged the winner on Super Bowl Sunday as a distraught Taylor Swift watched the Kansas City Chiefs collapse against the Philadelphia Eagles.
With more than 100 million Americans tuning into the big game, the Trump team flooded the zone with a blitz of media appearances, threats against political rivals, tariffs and even an executive order signed in transit on Air Force One.
The president’s triumph was realized before kickoff as he was cheered to the rafters while saluting the flag during the national anthem at the Superdome in New Orleans.
Meanwhile the liberal media’s chosen stars – Taylor Swift, Travis Kelce and Kendrick Lamar – rapidly proved to be losers.
Swift was roundly booed when she appeared on the big screen. Trump seized on the moment, firing off a Truth Social post that contrasted her jeers with his cheers.
On the field, Swift’s boyfriend Kelce and the Chiefs looked beaten before halftime. No three-peat narrative on the cards – the only history-maker in the house was Trump, the first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl game.
Then came Lamar in the halftime show, who badly misjudged the family occasion by accusing his rival Drake of being a pedophile in a self-absorbed rap tirade.
While Lamar’s abysmal performance missed the mark, the commercials either side of his show nailed post-election America with patriotic fervor laced through their multi-million dollar adverts. Trump wins and MAGA sells.
Trump stole more headlines when he departed the game early. He couldn’t resist a final dig at Swift as he flew over the newly-named Gulf of America: ‘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!’
Donald Trump dominated Super Bowl Sunday as thoroughly as the Philadelphia Eagles did, successfully conducting an all-out blitz of America’s biggest sporting holiday
Trump launched a parting social media salvo at Taylor Swift as he bailed on the Super Bowl early after watching the Chiefs collapse against the Eagles
On the entertainment side, not only was Swift lambasted, but rapper Kendrick Lamar left audiences baffled with his halftime show
Chiefs stars Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce were invisible and even Eagles star Saquon Barkley was largely kept quiet in victory
Trump and his team hatched a plan that culminated with images of Trump being plastered on TV screens worldwide during the National Anthem, following a week when he has upended national and global politics.
Before even arriving in New Orleans, Trump had cut a big TV interview with Bret Baier of Fox News which put him before a huge pre-game audience.
It was there that the president put his only foot wrong of the day, picking the Kansas City Chiefs to beat the Philadelphia Eagles. The Eagles won Super Bowl 59 by a score of 40-22. But the dull affair only brought focus more closely around Trump.
Even after the Baier interview, Trump showed off the energy and transparency toward the press that has made him famous.
His team assembled the press, shepherding them back from the aft of the plane and past a bevy of senators who had hitched a ride, after trekking to Mar-a-Lago to hear a 35-minute speech Friday night.
Trump opened the floodgates. He defended slashing cuts to U.S. university science research and foreign aid, as well as his decision to snatch security clearances from political rivals. He hammered judges who have been ruling against Elon Musk’s moves in the agencies.
Through his relentless display, Trump made it sound like he was as hungry to settle a score as the Eagles, who had lost to Kansas City two years ago.
His predecessor Joe Biden – whose security clearance Trump yanked on Friday night in yet another shock move – had foregone the Super Bowl interview last year, several months before his party dumped him after his debate disaster.
President Donald Trump orchestrated a first-ever Super Bowl visit by a sitting president, and was shown on the jumbotron during the National Anthem
Before even arriving at the game, Trump made news with a historic flight over body of water he is re-designating the Gulf of America, something the Air Force One pilot announced after an aide read a proclamation
The comparison was hard to ignore for Democrats who had fretted about Biden’s ability to beat Trump.
‘A year ago, Biden refused the traditional Super Bowl interview and the unparalleled audience it would have yielded. That bewildering decision was a major sign of trouble. Trump is all over it today,’ said former Barack Obama advisor David Axelrod.
Upon arrival, Trump sent crowds wild as he took to the field with his daughter Ivanka and son Eric to shake hands with players and local cops.
He posed for photos with family members of victims in the New Year’s Eve ISIS attack on Bourbon Street and emergency responders and waved to the cheering crowd.
Trump was also spotted shaking hands with Kansas City Chiefs defensive lineman Chris Jones, who specifically went over to greet the president.
Asked how she thought the president’s entrance went, chief of staff Susie Wiles told DailyMail.com: ‘Good, right?’
Later, Trump brought together members of his family with some of football and politics’ elite in his suite.
Trump was flanked on either side by his daughter Ivanka and Gayle Benson, owner of the New Orleans Saints, who are hosting the game in their Mercedes Benz Superdome as he saluted the flag and stood for the Star-Spangled Banner.
Donald Trump brought together members of his family with some of football and politics’ elite in his suite for Super Bowl 59
Upon arrival, Trump sent crowds wild as he took to the field and made history as the first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl game
Donald Trump shook hands with players and local police as he became the first sitting president to walk the sidelines of a Super Bowl
Next to Benson was Trump’s son Eric and his wife and former RNC co-chair Lara Trump.
At Ivanka’s side was her son and the president’s grandson Theodore, who strolled the sidelines with Donald prior to the game.
Some of Trump’s political allies were also visible, with Speaker of the House Mike Johnson attending the game in his home state of Louisiana.
Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, Eric Schmitt of Missouri and National Security Advisor Michael Waltz were also seen in the president’s suite.
From that point on, it was a victory for Trump as dominant as the Eagles’ one on the field.
Trump apparently had given up on his prediction that the Chiefs would beat the Eagles, leaving shortly after halftime.
His departure after the break was expected, however, Mahomes’ mother, brother and sister posed for a photo with Trump in his suite before he left.
Podcaster Megyn Kelly posted a photo with Trump and his son Don Jr., writing: ‘Saw Taylor Swift in the next box … eh … and then I spent time with a true winner. Thank you Mr. President!’
Trump’s influence over the whole game could clearly be felt, even down to some of the commercials.
Social media went wild for a patriotic ad for the US Secret Service during Super Bowl that featured iconic scenes from American history including the attempted assassination of Trump.
The ad was called ‘EPIC’ and cost the Secret Service $2 million to produce although the air time was donated to the Service, meaning it didn’t have to pay millions to get its messaging in front of the lucrative Super Bowl crowd.
Trump’s appearance in the ad came after he was nearly assassinated by a gunman at a rally last July in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Most of the commercials airing during this year´s Super Bowl are going for laughs, with advertisers betting that America could use a brief diversion.
But there was no diverting from the president, whose fingerprints were all over this biggest of days.
So many of the game’s biggest stars, both on and off the field, were kept quiet or maligned.
Chiefs stars Mahomes and Kelce were invisible and even Eagles star Saquon Barkley was largely kept quiet in victory.
On the entertainment side, not only was Swift lambasted, but rapper Kendrick Lamar left audiences baffled with his halftime show.
The game was considered over not long after Trump had departed, with the president’s impact looming large over the Eagles’ win.
