Folks, there’s never a dull moment when Donald J. Trump is in the building, and Super Bowl Sunday was no exception. The 45th (and soon-to-be 47th) president made history as the first sitting president to attend the big game, and let’s just say—he stole the show in a way that left even Taylor Swift in the dust.
While the NFL and its corporate media allies have spent months trying to shove the Swift-Kelce love story down America’s throat, the people had other ideas. When Trump was shown on-screen during the national anthem, the Superdome erupted into cheers. When Swift appeared on the jumbotron? Let’s just say it was less than enthusiastic. The boos were so loud they could probably be heard all the way in Kamala Harris’s empty campaign headquarters.
And because Trump is, well, Trump, he wasted zero time rubbing it in. He hopped on Truth Social after the game and declared, “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!” You almost have to feel bad for Swift. Almost. Not only did she get booed by the very fans the NFL insisted loved her presence at games, but she had to sit there and watch her boyfriend, Travis Kelce, take a brutal 40-22 loss to her childhood team, the Philadelphia Eagles. That’s gotta sting.
New from Trump on Taylor Swift getting booed 😂 pic.twitter.com/yG0c2N9xBK
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 10, 2025
Trump wasn’t done yet. He made sure to post videos of his cheers and Swift’s boos on Truth Social, just in case the mainstream media tried to pretend it didn’t happen. And, let’s be real, they absolutely would have ignored it if they could. But with millions of fans witnessing it in real time, there was no way to spin this one.
Taylor Swift got mercilessly booed. Trump got a hero’s welcome. Total culture shift. pic.twitter.com/HHci0WpTfs
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 10, 2025
This little rivalry has been brewing for a while now. Swift, after years of keeping her politics relatively quiet, suddenly jumped into the deep end of the progressive activist pool, endorsing Kamala Harris for president last September. And Trump? Well, he responded in the most Trumpian way possible—by announcing on Fox & Friends the next morning that he actually preferred Brittany Mahomes, wife of Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes. Why? Because Brittany had liked some of Trump’s social media posts, while Swift had thrown her support behind Biden’s deeply unpopular VP.
Things escalated when Trump, clearly unimpressed with Swift’s sudden political turn, took to Truth Social and flat-out declared, “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!” Now, that’s one way to let people know where you stand. But, honestly, can you blame him? The NFL spent all season acting like Swift was the league’s new mascot, constantly cutting to her in the stands as if she were somehow part of the game. Longtime fans had enough. They weren’t watching football to see a celebrity publicity stunt play out every Sunday.
People forget that Taylor Swift characterized Trump supporters as dumb, ignorant rednecks in her 2019 music video for “You Need to Calm Down”
Middle America is sick of being mocked by liberal elites
So no, it’s not hard to understand why she was booed at the Super Bowl pic.twitter.com/xdFXVz31wy
— David Leatherwood 🇺🇸 (@brokebackUSA) February 10, 2025
And let’s not forget the weird tension between Swift and Brittany Mahomes. At the start of the season, they were all smiles, dancing together in the luxury suites. But as soon as Swift’s pro-Harris stance became public and Brittany’s Trump-leaning activity was noticed, the distance between them grew. And yet, they still made sure to have a group dinner with Kelce and Patrick Mahomes right before the Super Bowl—probably an attempt at damage control to keep Swift’s image from getting even more political backlash. Too little, too late.
But Trump’s not just about taking victory laps—he’s got opinions on everything, including the NFL’s controversial new kickoff format. After spending the entire season calling it “horrible,” he made sure to take another jab at it on Super Bowl night: “The worst part of the Super Bowl, by far, was watching the Kickoff where, as the ball is sailing through the air, the entire field is frozen, stiff. College Football does not do it and won’t! Whose idea was it to ruin the Game?”
And he’s got a point. The new kickoff rule—designed under the guise of “safety”—has completely sucked the energy out of one of the most electric moments in football. It’s stiff, awkward, and just feels off. Even college football, which has made its fair share of rule tweaks, wouldn’t touch this disaster. But leave it to the NFL to overthink things and make the game worse in the process.
So, what did we learn from Super Bowl Sunday? Trump is still a rockstar, Swift’s forced media coronation is flopping harder than Biden’s approval ratings, and the NFL might want to rethink how much they want to alienate their core audience. MAGA is back, and no amount of corporate pandering is going to change that.
