Travis Kelce, Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs were filmed leaving Kansas City for their White House meeting with President Biden.
The Chiefs will visit the White House on Friday to celebrate the NFL team’s third Super Bowl victory in five years.
The entire team is expected to participate in the event on the South Lawn for the second time in two years. But one person whose presence is not anticipated is the singer. Taylor Swiftthe tight end’s girlfriend Travis Kelce.
Biden will honor the Chiefs for their overtime victory over the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl in Las Vegas in February.
Kelce, Mahomes and head coach Andy Reid looked dapper in their suits. Rashee Rice and Wanya Morris, who have had legal troubles this offseason, also posed together as they got off the plane later.
It is a long-standing tradition for championship sports teams, both professional and college, to be invited to the White House.
Travis Kelce, Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs left Kansas City for the White House
Chiefs coach Andy Reid and his players were filmed boarding the team bus to the airport.
The Chiefs have won the Super Bowl three times in the last five years. In 2023, they defeated the Philadelphia Eagles, first lady Jill Biden’s favorite football team. She grew up near Philadelphia and attended the game.
Kansas City also defeated San Francisco to claim the 2020 Super Bowl title.
The Chiefs shared on social media early Friday that “we are celebrating our back-to-back championship seasons and victory in Super Bowl LVIII at the White House.”
Kicker Harrison Butker, who made headlines by attacking some of Biden’s policies during a commencement speech earlier this month, is expected to accompany his teammates to the White House.
Butker recently defended his comments, saying he has no regrets about expressing his beliefs.
In the May 16 speech at Benedictine College, a private Catholic liberal arts school in Atchison, Kansas, Butker congratulated the women who were receiving degrees and said most of them were probably most excited about getting married and having children.
Rashee Rice and Wanya Morris also posed together as they got off the plane later.
Harrison Butker is expected to attend, despite his recent scathing comments about Biden.
He criticized some of Biden’s policy positions, including the Democratic president’s condemnation of the Supreme Court’s overturning of its Roe v. Wade of 1973 that legalized abortion throughout the country, and his defense of freedom of choice.
Abortion is an issue that Biden and his fellow Democrats hope to use to their advantage in the November election.
Butker also addressed Biden’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic, which has killed nearly 1.2 million people in the US, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
As for Swift, her absence is sure to disappoint many in the White House.
Press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre had to deflect questions earlier this week about whether the 34-year-old singer-songwriter would perform.
“That’s a good question,” Jean-Pierre said. ‘I can’t talk about his agenda. But I know there is a lot of interest in this building, on this campus.”
Swift was traveling abroad on her Eras tour, with a show scheduled for Thursday in Madrid.