Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker visited President Donald Trump on Thursday before the Philadelphia Eagles, the team that beat the Chiefs in the Super Bowl, have yet to travel to the White House for the traditional winners celebration.
Photos shared on White House accounts showed the right-wing jock with Trump and press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
“Harrison Butker stopped by the White House today, and the President couldn’t have been happier to say hello,” an administration official told Fox News. But there was no explanation why.
Butker’s audience with Trump should come as no surprise, however. He endorsed Trump in the lead-up to the 2024 election and founded a conservative political action committee to inspire Christians to vote.
The kicker became a household name after his inflammatory graduation speech at Benedictine College in May. He slammed abortion rights, diversity programs and the LGBTQ+ community, while also suggesting that female graduates should look more forward to becoming homemakers than career successes.
The Chiefs made it to President Joe Biden’s White House in 2024 to celebrate their second straight Super Bowl victory.
Meanwhile, the Trump White House and Eagles seemed to be working out some kind of arrangement this time around.
Trump said this week the White House would invite the Eagles but nothing appears official yet. Both the White House and the team confirmed previously that the Eagles had not been given an invitation. A tabloid report said the team already planned to reject an invite, but Eagles sources said they would gladly accept if offered.
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In 2018 Trump rescinded an invitation to the Eagles after they won the Super Bowl because he got wind that many players wouldn’t come anyway. Trump’s rebuke of kneeling national anthem protests had become a hot-button issue.