Patrick Mahomes’ family took a photo with President Donald Trump in a luxury suite before the Super Bowl on Sunday, prompting jeers and sarcasm online.
Trump gave a thumbs-up in the moment while Randi Mahomes, mom of the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback, held up three fingers presumably to signify her hope that the team would win an unprecedented third straight Super Bowl. Instead her eldest son got sacked six times and the Philadelphia Eagles won easily.
Mahomes’ little brother, Jackson Mahomes, and half-sister, Mia Randall, also joined in the pic, which was shared by Margo Martin, a special assistant to the president, on a White House X account.
The Kansas City quarterback took pains to avoid publicly endorsing Trump or Kamala Harris in the presidential race. And he offered a measured reaction last week to Trump attending the big game.
But his mother made it clear she was on Team MAGA earlier in the season. “Make America great again, let’s do it, whoo!” the MAGA-hat wearing Randi said in a video at a game in November.
Supporters of the Eagles and critics of the president poked fun at the image, given the shellacking the Chiefs got in the ensuing hours.
“No wonder the Chiefs are losing bigly,” one person wrote on X.
“And what’s the score now?” another snarked.
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