Trump expected to attend Super Bowl, White House official says
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President Donald Trump is expected to attend Super Bowl LIX at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on Sunday, a White House official told CNN.
President Donald Trump is expected to attend Super Bowl LIX at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on Sunday, a White House official told CNN. The guest list is still being prepared, the official said, though House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana native, is in talks to join him. With his Sunday attendance, Trump will make history as the first sitting US president to attend a Super Bowl. Former President George H.W. Bush performed the traditional Super Bowl coin toss after leaving office in 2002 and again in 2017. And then-President Ronald Reagan performed a coin toss “via satellite from the Oval Office” in 1985, according to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Still, it won’t be Trump’s first turn at a major championship sporting event; he attended Game 5 of the World Series in 2019 as the hometown Washington Nationals took on the Houston Astros. There is a significant security presence around the Super Bowl, with or without a presidential visit, but a source familiar with the planning described heightened preparations ahead of Trump’s attendance. The Super Bowl is designated as an “NSSE,” a national special security event, requiring a whole-of-government strategy to securing the venue and the region. Planning for the event began when New Orleans was selected as the game site back in 2020, and it will require the full gamut of security resources available, from chemical to biological to radiological resources, according to Jonathan Wackrow, a CNN contributor and former US Secret Service agent. CNN has reached out to the NFL for comment. Punchbowl News first reported Trump’s expected attendance.
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