White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre congratulated “all the Swifties” after the Kansas City boss’ Super Bowl win, but couldn’t say whether Taylor Swift would join her boyfriend Travis Kelce when the team be honored by President Joe Biden.
‘The President was able to watch part of the game and, on his behalf, I want to congratulate the Kansas City Chiefs on their third Super Bowl victory in just five seasons. And also congratulations to all the Swifties,” he said Monday at his daily press conference.
Kansas City’s victory came amid an online conspiracy theory that the Chiefs would win a “rigged” Super Bowl to help Biden win a second term in the White House.
Taylor Swift kisses Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce after the team’s victory
The Chiefs last played the San Francisco 49ers in 2020, and that same year, Biden defeated Donald Trump in the presidential election. The two men are on track for a rematch in 2024.
The winning team traditionally receives an invitation to the White House. Jean-Pierre couldn’t say when the Chiefs would arrive or if Swift would be with them, noting that it depends on the team who to invite.
“That’s going to be up to the Chiefs and obviously their decision to determine who’s going to go with them when they come.” And as you know, it’s a White House tradition. “I can’t, I can’t speak to the attendance and who will be here, but we hope to have them here,” he said.
He said he didn’t know if players could bring a companion.
Swift endorsed Biden in 2020 and is said to be a top target for the campaign to have on its side in this year’s general election.
The ‘Shake it Off’ singer traveled halfway around the world from her tour stop in Japan to Las Vegas to cheer on her boyfriend’s team. Later, she went out onto the field to give him a congratulatory kiss. The couple also joined the players at a Las Vegas club to dance the night away.
After the game, which Kansas won 25-22 in overtime, Kelce said he now moves on to the next feat.
“I’m going to move forward and enjoy this and everything that just happened,” he said. ‘This is a once in a lifetime opportunity and I have already been able to take advantage of it three times. It keeps getting sweeter and sweeter.
‘You know the goal has always been to get three. “But we couldn’t get here without getting those two and without having that goal on our back all year.”
Neither has commented on the many online conspiracies that exist about them.
But Biden referred to it on social media.
The president’s personal account. he said it deadpan in X immediately after the Super Bowl-winning catch, noting, “Just the way we drew it” over an image of “Dark Brandon,” a meme that features Biden with lasers for eyes.
Biden also referred to it in his inaugural post on Tik-Tok. His campaign announced his decision to join TikTok on Sunday night, despite the president’s national security concerns about the Chinese social media app.
“I’d be in trouble if I told you,” Biden joked in the video when asked if the conspiracy was true.
He also refused to choose between Kansas City and San Francisco, noting that he was an Eagles fan by marriage, as his wife Jill Biden is a “Philadelphia girl.”
And when asked to choose between NFL brothers Travis Kelce or Jason Kelce, Biden responded: “Mom Kelce, I understand she makes great chocolate chip cookies.”
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre could not say whether Taylor Swift would join the Kansas City Chiefs at the White House.
Taylor Swift celebrates with Ashley Avignone, Ice Spice and Blake Lively during the second half of the NFL Super Bowl.
TikTok has 170 million American users, but few high-level American politicians.
Biden’s decision to have a campaign account illustrates his team’s desperation to reach young voters even though the federal government has warned that TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, has the ability to share data with the Chinese government. .
Concerns about the app led Biden to ban it on devices used by the federal government in December 2022.
Swift has been the subject of other conspiracy theories surrounding her relationship with Kelce, including the unsubstantiated rumor that they are “fake dates” to boost the NFL’s ratings by getting the pop star’s millions of fans to tune in. .
Television cameras regularly focus on Swift when he attends Chiefs games, but as regular football viewers know, the action on the field regularly slows down and it’s normal for cameras to show the crowd, even when one of the most famous women in the world is in it. .
The singer told Time magazine that her relationship with the soccer star began in July when he put her on his podcast.
“This all started when Travis very adorably blew me up on his podcast, which I thought was metal as hell… We started dating right after that,” Swift said of a July 26 episode of the New Heights podcast by Kelce.
‘So we spent a significant amount of time that no one knew about, which I’m grateful, because we got to know each other better. When I went to the first game, we were a couple. I think some people think they saw our first date in that game. “We would never be psychotic enough to go on a first date,” he noted.
Swift has earned the ire of Republicans for her endorsement of Democratic candidates: Biden in 2020 and Democratic Senate candidates in Tennessee.
And Kelce earned the ire of conservatives and anti-vaxxers for promoting Pfizer’s Covid vaccine.